[pt] Esta dissertação tem como objetivo analisar o papel das Organizações de Sociedade Civil (OSCs) brasileiras na integração local de refugiados e em que medida estas assumem responsabilidades que deveriam ser do Estado de acordo com os compromissos nacionais e internacionais firmados por ele. Dentro desse contexto, o trabalho ressalta a dinâmica do modelo tripartite ou de responsabilidade compartilhada que possibilita essa transferência de responsabilidade do Estado para as OSCs. Para tanto, este trabalho realiza uma revisão da literatura no tema e fundamenta essa análise com entrevistas realizadas em campo. Assim, no primeiro momento, este trabalho analisa os compromissos do Direito Internacional dos Refugiados e da legislação brasileira em vigor a respeito de refúgio e migração. Posteriormente, o trabalho expõe um breve debate sobre o conceito de integração local. Por fim, é analisado o papel da sociedade civil organizada na integração local de refugiados no Brasil, incluindo a visão dos entrevistados, e então, expostas as conclusões a partir do evidenciado. / [en] This dissertation investigates how Brazilian Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) develop the local integration of refugees, and to what extent they are willing to take on responsibilities that originally belong to the State under the national and international commitments signed by it. Within this context, this work highlights the tripartite or shared responsibility model s dynamics that enable this assignment of responsibility from the State to the CSOs. To pursue this argument, this work relies on a literature review and interviews carried out in the field throughout the research. Firstly, this work will analyse the commitments of International Refugee Law and the current Brazilian legislation regarding refuge and migration. Then, this work follows by exposing a brief discussion of the concept of local integration. Finally, this dissertation will look at the role of organized civil society in the local integration of refugees in Brazil. In this part, this work will consider the perspectives brought by interviewees to advance its argument, and then, conclusions are exposed from the evidence.

This thesis is serves to examine the refugee policies in Tanzania and Uganda and how they have affected refugee participation in their labor market economies. I focused on two developing nations because much of refugee discourse revolves around the global north, leaving developing nations out of the conversation. This gap in discourse inspired this topic in hopes of encouraging more scholarly contributions. Considering the economic impact of refugees provides an empirical approach to humanitarian issues exposing the overlap between politics, economics, and humanity.

In 2016, member states of the United Nations, by consensus, adopted the New York Declaration for Refugees and Migrants, in which they also agreed to the Comprehensive Refugee Response Framework (CRRF). The framework, arguing for a multi-stakeholder inclusive approach that includes local authorities, was suggested to be a progressive step in establishing an international regime offering predictability in dealing with large scale refugee movements, placing focus on self-reliance, economic inclusion, and support for both refugees and host communities. The CRRF was inserted in the Global Compact on Refugees adopted by UN General Assembly in December 2018. This thesis sets out to enunciate the involvement of local governments as stakeholders in the CRRF and to explore the role of this stakeholder status in refugee local integration solutions, with Uganda as an exemplifying case of refugee hosting countries implementing the CCRF. As an entry point, the thesis posits the following research question: “As stakeholders in the comprehensive refugee response framework, what is the role of local governments in refugee local integration in Uganda?”. The thesis utilizes concepts including stakeholders, local government, decentralisation and integration to construct an analytical framework employed by the thesis.  The thesis claims that as stakeholders in the CRRF, local governments are relevant in enhancing refugee local integration, but this role can only be maximized if and when the decentralized functions and structures of local government are adequately utilised by other stakeholders in the CRRF including the central government and international community. Local governments, under the right circumstances, potentially play a role in ensuring host communities do not impede the enjoyment of refugee rights by mediating refugee-host community relations. But as it stands; the political, administrative, and fiscal functions of local government in Uganda are yet to be adequately harnessed by CRRF structures.