FULL RESEARCH REPORT

The key objectives of the Compact – formally approved in December 2018 – are to ease the financial and political pressures on host countries, the vast majority of which are in the global South; enhance the self-reliance of refugees in their displacement; increase access to third-country settlement; and support conditions in countries of origin for return in safety and dignity. [...] Given the multiple factors and motives propelling forced displacement, and the complex and fluid patterns and processes of displacement, we argue that international intervention should be predicated on the needs and rights of the forcibly displaced, irrespective of the category 4 or cause of displacement. [...] 5 Changing the public narrative Addressing the causes, consequences and outcomes of mass displacement requires more than just new paradigms, new sources and forms of funding and a fairer distribution of burdens and responsibilities – essential though all of these are: policies towards refugees – both in terms of direct assistance and in terms of the outcomes of their displacement, in particular in. [...] In each case, the World Commission’s recommendations derive directly from the findings of the Chumir/ODI project on the economic dimensions of migration in host societies; the protection regime for refugees and migrants; responsibility-sharing and a more equitable balance of the burden between the developed and developing worlds; the vital importance of influencing the public narrative around migr. [...] However, the increasingly widespread use of these terms is a recognition that the word ‘refugee’ is failing to describe the millions of people driven from their homes and in need of some form of protection, as well as other assistance, but who are not subject to persecution – the determining criterion of refugee status and protection under the 1951 Refugee Convention/1967 Protocol and the mandate.