organization:refugee studies centre

The #compact experiment. Push for refugee jobs confronts reality of Jordan and Lebanon

In September 2015, as Europe veered between fear and compassion in response to the refugee crisis, the outline of a radical reform to refugee policy appeared in the journal Foreign Affairs. Its authors – Paul Collier, an influential development economist, and Alexander Betts, a social scientist and then-head of the Refugee Studies Centre at Oxford – proposed a pathway for Syrian refugees into Jordan’s labor market.

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Jordan Experiment Spurs Jobs For Refugees

Policy experts are hoping that a small patch of desert in Jordan can provide global answers to the refugee crisis by giving displaced Syrians the right to work.

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Guest blogger Professor Roger Zetter: “For many, internal displacement is the first step on a long and perilous journey of forced migration”

Professor #Roger_Zetter is the former director at the Refugee Studies Centre at the University of Oxford, and a highly respected expert in the fields of forced migration and displacement. In his latest report “Protecting forced migrants: A state of the art report of concepts, challenges and ways forward”, he analyses current and future challenges concerning the protection needs of different groups of displaced people, including IDPs. IDMC was honoured to be able to put some questions to him about his findings.

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