The forgotten solution: local integration for refugees in developing countries

This paper seeks to remedy the ‘research gap’ by exploring the circumstances in which refugees in protracted situations live outside of camps and pursue a sustainable existence within the host community. The premise is that because many self-settled refugees do become integrated into the host community, largely without official assistance, a policy of assisted local integration in which refugees, the local population and the host government are encouraged and enabled to work together, is potentially workable in protracted situations. However, a revitalized local integration policy must be modified from traditional approaches to local integration.