Assessing the Jordan Compact One Year On: An Opportunity or a Barrier to Better Achieving Refugees’ Right to Work

Meral, Amanda Gray

doi:10.1093/jrs/fez074

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“…Article (8) of the memorandum stipulated that to secure a decent life for his family, the refugee with legal residence in the Kingdom can have his own business following functioning laws and bylaws (Meral, 2020). Thus, the refugee's right (Claudena Skran, Evan Easton-Calabria, 2020) to work is conditioned by conformity to national legislation (1998 memorandum).…”

Section: Right To Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Status of Refugee Rights in Light of Memorandum of Understanding and Mechanism of Implementation

Al-Arasi

Alhuayan

2020

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Purpose: According to the importance of the refugee issue and refugee rights and since that Hashimte Kingdom of Jordan did not join the 1951 convention of refugees status and its 1967 protocol and managed to sign the memorandum of understanding instead with UNHCR, this study aimed to tackle the issue of refugees rights and duties between reality and implementation in Jordan. Methodology: This study adopted the descriptive, analytical, and comparative methodology of international and regional conventions, in addition to the comparison between the Jordanian legislation and the Memorandum of Understanding on Refugees with the provisions of international law. Also, it utilized the empirical method by conducting a field study. Main Findings: Results gained from the questionnaire concluded the refugees on Jordanian territory got rights more than what was stipulated on in the memorandum of understanding signed between the Jordan government and the United Nations high commissioner for refugees’ affairs (UNHCR). It also found out that the majority of refugees committed to their responsibilities in maintaining general security and order. Implications/Applications: This study has addressed the implications of the memorandum of understanding signed between the Jordan government and the United Nations high commissioner for refugees' affairs (UNHCR) by its analysis and application on a random sample of 150 refugees in Jordan, including Syrians in the biggest refugee camp in Jordan; Al- Zaatari refugee camp, in addition to the implications of the memorandum on Iraqi and Yemeni refugees in Jordan. Novelty/Originality of this study: This study was based on the memorandum of understanding between Jordan and (UNHCR) that was signed in the background of the refugee crisis that our countries witnessed. However, this study was the first to analyze the articles of the memorandum of understanding mentioned above and was backed up with a field study on a random sample of 150 Syrian refugees in Jordan refugees’ camps.

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Section: Right To Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Status of Refugee Rights in Light of Memorandum of Understanding and Mechanism of Implementation

Al-Arasi

Alhuayan

2020

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“…Research on the Compact has thus far been mostly limited to reports, many of them done on assignment for the Compact's main donors, i.e., the UN and the EU (e.g., Agulhas, 2019;Center for Global Development, 2017;Overseas Development Institute, 2018;Temprano-Arroyo, 2018). The exceptions include academic articles that focus on the (thus far disappointing) effects that the Compact has had on refugees' access to rights and the labor market (Gray Meral, 2020;Lenner & Turner, 2018;Mencutek & Nashwan, 2020;Turner, 2021). The policy process behind it has so far only been explored from the Jordanian side (Seeberg, 2020;Seeberg & Zardo, 2020).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The policy process behind it has so far only been explored from the Jordanian side (Seeberg, 2020;Seeberg & Zardo, 2020). Donor state engagement is identified as a key factor in the success of refugee compacts without explaining donor state involvement in Jordan (Gray Meral, 2020;Lenner & Turner, 2018;Mencutek & Nashwan, 2020). An exploration of the legal aspects of the Compact has been offered by Poli (2020).…”

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confidence: 99%

Crisis-Induced Leadership: Exploring the Role of the EU Commission in the EU–Jordan Compact

Vaagland

2021

PaG

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<p>The EU–Jordan Compact (hereafter Compact) has been identified as being a groundbreaking, comprehensive approach to global refugee protection. Thus far, research on this underexplored case has mainly focused on the effects of the Compact. The policy process leading to the adoption of the Compact, as well as the motivations of the EU (i.e., the main donor), remain blackboxed. This article explores how the migration crisis affected the EU Commission’s ability to create coordinated, strategic action in external policy. It does so by tracing the internal EU negotiations and developing a causal model that explains how the Commission could overcome silos and efficiently draft a policy proposal linking the issues of migration and trade. The analysis is based on 13 original in-depth interviews with EU representatives. The article contributes to crisisification theory by presenting a mechanism that explains how the Commission can make use of crises. The Commission created cohesion by reframing the crisis, identifying the relevant policy tools with which to address it, and by reframing the responsibilities of the relevant directorate-general. Furthermore, by utilizing the urgency of the crisis, the Commission enabled rapid policy drafting and created an explicit linkage between refugee policy and trade policy. This linkage provided the member states with the motivation to adopt the proposal as a solution to the ongoing migration crisis.</p>

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“…Refugees are a highly oppressed and marginalised group, often even worse when living in camps (Gray Meral 2020;Schön 2020;United Nations Economic and Social Council 2016;Young 1992). In many cases, deprived of their human rights, located in remote areas and without access to the local labour market, encamped refugees have no other opportunity than turning to negative coping mechanisms to survive, including sex work, child labour, crime and dangerous work in the informal sector (UNHCR 2014).…”

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confidence: 99%

Measuring Self-Reliance in Refugee Camps

Schön¹,

Borchert²,

Kunst³

2021

Preprint

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The concept of "self-reliance" is widespread, but only recently there have been initiatives that not only use the term “self-reliance”, but also try to measure it – rather for refugees outside than in refugee camps, though. Thus, the “Camp Performance Indicator (CPI) system” was developed and applied to different case studies. This paper examines the level of self-reliance for camps in Jordan (Zaatari camp and Azraq camp) and Kenya (Dadaab Complex), but also for refugee settlements in Uganda (Nakivale and Bidibidi) and simultaneously tests the CPI, a tool consisting of 109 indicators. Applying the CPI revealed that the level of self-reliance is generally low in the five camps and settlements studied, backing up our initial hypothesis.

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Assessing the Jordan Compact One Year On: An Opportunity or a Barrier to Better Achieving Refugees’ Right to Work

Cited by 10 publications

References 4 publications

The Status of Refugee Rights in Light of Memorandum of Understanding and Mechanism of Implementation

The Status of Refugee Rights in Light of Memorandum of Understanding and Mechanism of Implementation

Crisis-Induced Leadership: Exploring the Role of the EU Commission in the EU–Jordan Compact

Measuring Self-Reliance in Refugee Camps

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