Refugees in the Digital Economy

The current scale and duration of displacement prompts renewed urgency about livelihoods prospects for displaced people the role humanitarian organisations in fostering them. This special issue focuses on how aid organisations, together with private sector other actors, have worked to include refugees new forms online work within web-based digital economy. Building comparative analysis a comprehensive review field among forcibly displaced, this introductory article we argue that including economy is currently neither sustainable form relief nor it development solution provides large-scale decent work. We show approaches gained footing middle ground between short-term economic long-term development. Indeed, economies seemingly offer variety ‘quick-fix’ solutions at transition from emergency towards efforts. While harbour significant potential, cannot be fully realised unless efforts are complemented by address divides, uphold refugees’ rights, ensure more working conditions.