Socio‐economic strategy for settlement of refugees amidst crisis: The case of PakAfghan

Author:

Tariq Habib1,Ali Yousaf12ORCID,Petrillo Antonella3,De Felice Fabio3

Affiliation:

1. School of Management Sciences Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute of Engineering Sciences & Technology Swabi Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Pakistan

2. College of Business & Management, Fahad Bin Sultan University Tabuk Saudi Arabia

3. Department of Engineering University of Naples “Parthenope”, Isola C4, Centro Direzionale Napoli Naples (NA) Italy

Abstract

AbstractToday, global concerns are at their peak due to the fast‐growing number of refugees. The world faces the dilemma of the refugee crisis, which needs to be addressed by the United Nations (U.N.) sustainable development goals (SDGs). Pakistan hosts about 1.4 million registered refugees in camps and urban areas. The majority consist of Afghans who departed due to severe poverty, conflict, and security concerns. These refugees bring socio‐economic distress to the host country. In order to comprehend the whole crisis, this study primarily focuses on three areas: the unstable political and security situation in the country of origin, the refugee concerns and their implications. This research is unique throughout the literature as it applies the interpretive structural modelling (ISM) tool to view the refugee crisis holistically. Results from ISM show that the ‘Political situation of Afghanistan’ is the most influential factor with very high driving power. Afterward, 10 resulting factors were opted from the ISM model, which demonstrate the implications on the host country. The relative importance index (RII) approach was used to rank the resultant factors. Ranking from RII depicts a significantly different impact of refugees while residing in urban areas. Using the Prisoner's dilemma of cooperative game theory (GT), this study concludes by recommending refugees to get registered and the host country to settle them in the local population. The use of cooperative GT with the nexus of ISM and RII is also exceptional and will be helpful for researchers and policymakers to resolve any conflict.

Publisher

Wiley

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