New Issues in Refugee Research - Newcomers to Nairobi: the protection concerns and survival strategies of asylum seekers in Kenya’s capital city

The study first documents the logistics of their arrival and the protection concerns of asylum seekers within the first week of their arrival in Nairobi. These immediate protection concerns include police harassment, theft, security threats, gender-based violence, physical assault, financial difficulties and resulting economic exploitation, as well as registration-related challenges. Whilst focusing on involuntary movement inside national borders, the paper will demonstrate that the factors relevant to good relations between those forced to move, and those whom they meet on their arrival, are universal, and not dependent on whether the context is internal displacement or a refugee situation, or on the country context, time in history or cause of the involuntary movement. Instead it hopes to demonstrate that the issues of moving, meeting and mixing are surprisingly similar, and therefore may have some common solutions.

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) 2013

The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees was established on December 14, 1950 by the United Nations General Assembly. The agency is mandated to lead and co-ordinate international action to protect refugees and resolve refugee problems worldwide.