No Place to Go But Up: Urban Refugees in Johannesburg, South Africa

With support from the Bureau for Population, Refugees
and Migration (BPRM) at the U.S. Department of State,
and in collaboration with the United Nations High Commissioner
for Refugees (UNHCR), the Women’s Refugee
Commission is conducting a one-year study to
understand the economic coping strategies, protection
concerns and local economic environment of urban
displacement. Through desk research, assessments
in Kampala, New Delhi and Johannesburg, and in consultation
with forced migrants about their own needs,
the project will develop operational guidance aimed at
enhancing the economic security and protection of the
urban displaced.

This report focuses on key findings from a March/April
2011 field assessment conducted in Johannesburg, in
partnership with the African Centre for Migration and
Society (ACMS) at the University of the Witwatersrand.