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Papers by Harry Cook
Arab Migrant Communities in the GCC: Summary Report, Sep 2015
Established in 2005, the Center for International and Regional Studies at the Georgetown Universi... more Established in 2005, the Center for International and Regional Studies at the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in Qatar is a premier research institute devoted to the academic study of regional and international issues through dialogue and exchange of ideas, research and scholarship, and engagement with national and international scholars, opinion-makers, practitioners, and activists.
Working Paper for the World Migration Report 2013, 2013
This paper complements the 2013 edition of IOM’s World Migration Report (WMR). In accordance with... more This paper complements the 2013 edition of IOM’s World Migration Report (WMR). In accordance with the WMR, it focuses on four dimensions of migrant well-being: career, financial, social and community. The paper has three main aims. The first is to provide an overview of the principal migration trends within and to the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, as well as a discussion of the well-being of principal categories of migrants associated with those trends and some of the specific determinant factors of the well-being of these particular migrants. This is achieved through a review of available literature and case data from the International Organization for Migration (IOM). The second is to examine gender as a particularly important cross-cutting issue in the region that impacts the well-being of migrants from a broad range of social backgrounds. A case study of migrants in central and greater Cairo forms the focus of this examination and includes an analysis of in-depth, primary data on well-being collected from 561 migrants. Significant gender discrepancies are found across nearly all of the migrant well-being indicators used. Arguments are advanced as to why similar results regarding gender-related inequalities may be expected to a lesser or larger extent across other parts of the MENA region. Addressing this second aim forms the focus of the paper and it is the analysis therein that ultimately serves the paper’s third aim: examining how the relationships between gender and migrant well-being in the MENA region are associated with development outcomes and providing policy recommendations on this basis.
Reports by Harry Cook
Migrant Vulnerability to Human Trafficking and Exploitation: Evidence from the Central and Eastern Mediterranean Migration Routes (IOM 2017), 2017
Over the past years, public attention has gradually turned to the experiences of migrants along t... more Over the past years, public attention has gradually turned to the experiences of migrants along the precarious Mediterranean routes to Europe. A large number of migrants continue to risk their lives crossing the Mediterranean Sea on the way to Europe, often enduring long and perilous journeys. A growing body of evidence is beginning to highlight the scale and scope of exploitation experienced by migrants along these routes, including human trafficking.
This report examines migrants’ vulnerability to human trafficking and exploitation by exploring risk and protective factors associated with unsafe migration, through the systematic evidence collected by IOM’s Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM) operations in 2016. It presents the results from the largest existing set of survey data on the vulnerability of migrants to abuse, exploitation and human trafficking on the Mediterranean routes to Europe.
The analysis of the IOM survey data shows that more than one third (37%) of all interviewed migrants had a personal experience that indicated the presence of human trafficking or other exploitative practices along the route. Seventy-three per cent of migrants interviewed along the Central Mediterranean route presented at least one indicator of exploitation, along with 14 per cent of migrants interviewed along the Eastern Mediterranean route. The analysis in this report goes beyond describing the correlates of vulnerability, and it explores whether potential predictors can be associated with vulnerability when statistically controlling for the effects of other variables. Advanced statistical analysis (a set of multilevel logistic regression models) was undertaken to identify factors that predict migrants’ vulnerability during the journey.
Data derive from interviews conducted over a one-year period with more than 16,000 migrants in seven countries, namely, Bulgaria, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Serbia, Slovenia and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.
Arab Migrant Communities in the GCC: Summary Report, Sep 2015
Established in 2005, the Center for International and Regional Studies at the Georgetown Universi... more Established in 2005, the Center for International and Regional Studies at the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in Qatar is a premier research institute devoted to the academic study of regional and international issues through dialogue and exchange of ideas, research and scholarship, and engagement with national and international scholars, opinion-makers, practitioners, and activists.
Working Paper for the World Migration Report 2013, 2013
This paper complements the 2013 edition of IOM’s World Migration Report (WMR). In accordance with... more This paper complements the 2013 edition of IOM’s World Migration Report (WMR). In accordance with the WMR, it focuses on four dimensions of migrant well-being: career, financial, social and community. The paper has three main aims. The first is to provide an overview of the principal migration trends within and to the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, as well as a discussion of the well-being of principal categories of migrants associated with those trends and some of the specific determinant factors of the well-being of these particular migrants. This is achieved through a review of available literature and case data from the International Organization for Migration (IOM). The second is to examine gender as a particularly important cross-cutting issue in the region that impacts the well-being of migrants from a broad range of social backgrounds. A case study of migrants in central and greater Cairo forms the focus of this examination and includes an analysis of in-depth, primary data on well-being collected from 561 migrants. Significant gender discrepancies are found across nearly all of the migrant well-being indicators used. Arguments are advanced as to why similar results regarding gender-related inequalities may be expected to a lesser or larger extent across other parts of the MENA region. Addressing this second aim forms the focus of the paper and it is the analysis therein that ultimately serves the paper’s third aim: examining how the relationships between gender and migrant well-being in the MENA region are associated with development outcomes and providing policy recommendations on this basis.
Migrant Vulnerability to Human Trafficking and Exploitation: Evidence from the Central and Eastern Mediterranean Migration Routes (IOM 2017), 2017
Over the past years, public attention has gradually turned to the experiences of migrants along t... more Over the past years, public attention has gradually turned to the experiences of migrants along the precarious Mediterranean routes to Europe. A large number of migrants continue to risk their lives crossing the Mediterranean Sea on the way to Europe, often enduring long and perilous journeys. A growing body of evidence is beginning to highlight the scale and scope of exploitation experienced by migrants along these routes, including human trafficking.
This report examines migrants’ vulnerability to human trafficking and exploitation by exploring risk and protective factors associated with unsafe migration, through the systematic evidence collected by IOM’s Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM) operations in 2016. It presents the results from the largest existing set of survey data on the vulnerability of migrants to abuse, exploitation and human trafficking on the Mediterranean routes to Europe.
The analysis of the IOM survey data shows that more than one third (37%) of all interviewed migrants had a personal experience that indicated the presence of human trafficking or other exploitative practices along the route. Seventy-three per cent of migrants interviewed along the Central Mediterranean route presented at least one indicator of exploitation, along with 14 per cent of migrants interviewed along the Eastern Mediterranean route. The analysis in this report goes beyond describing the correlates of vulnerability, and it explores whether potential predictors can be associated with vulnerability when statistically controlling for the effects of other variables. Advanced statistical analysis (a set of multilevel logistic regression models) was undertaken to identify factors that predict migrants’ vulnerability during the journey.
Data derive from interviews conducted over a one-year period with more than 16,000 migrants in seven countries, namely, Bulgaria, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Serbia, Slovenia and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.