Employment of Syrian refugees in Jordan: challenges and opportunities

Mencütek, Zeynep Şahin; Nashwan, Ayat

doi:10.1080/15313204.2020.1753614

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“…In Jordan, 84% of Syrian refugees outside camps live below the poverty line and almost 6 out of 10 working‐age Syrian refugees are unemployed. Most Syrian families depend on international organization assistance to meet healthcare and food needs at a time of cuts in aid and economic downturn (Achilli, 2015; Şahin Mencütek & Nashwan, 2020). All Syrians who have been held in quarantine throughout the coronavirus disease (COVID‐19) outbreak and integrated with the Jordanian population could participate in this report along with the Jordanian people.…”

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Psychological effects of quarantine on Syrian refugees, compared to the Jordanian populations

Al-Awaida

Al‐Ameer

Al‐Turk³

et al. 2021

International Migration

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To ward off the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in 2019, the Jordanian government applied quarantine to the Jordanian population in addition to Syrian refugees. We evaluated the quarantine's psychological effect on people in Jordan after three weeks of quarantine.The prevalence of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in our sample population was determined using a higher than twenty score on the Impact of Event Scale-Revised

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Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Psychological effects of quarantine on Syrian refugees, compared to the Jordanian populations

Al-Awaida

Al‐Ameer

Al‐Turk³

et al. 2021

International Migration

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“…The length of the waiting period until the refugee's asylum application is processed also has an important role in their mental health. The lengthy asylum procedures may worsen the mental health problems and sufficient mental health care in this period is required [27,28,32,33]. This means that keeping the refugees waiting or warehousing them in camps will subsequently lead to more mental health problems.…”

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Syrian Refugees’ Integration Policies in Jordanian Labor Market

Alshwawra

2021

Sustainability

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The Government of Jordan declared that there are more than one million Syrian refugees in Jordan while UNHCR statistics show that the number is about 700,000. Nonetheless, it is still a large problem for Jordan, especially since there is no real solution that seems to be looming on the horizon for the Syrian crisis. Consequently, that means that those refugees’ stay in Jordan is indefinite. This fact requires Jordan to work towards solutions to avoid the warehousing of those refugees in camps and to integrate them in Jordanian community to ease their stay in Jordan. To achieve that integration, Jordan must facilitate the Syrians’ access to the Jordanian labor market so they can achieve self-reliance. In February 2016, donors gathered in London for the ‘Supporting Syria and the Region’ conference, known as the London Conference, to mobilize funding for the needs of the people affected by the Syrian crisis. In that conference, Jordan pledged to facilitate Syrian refugees’ access to the labor market. This paper will study the process of Syrian integration in Jordanian society by discussing the policies and the procedures that Jordan has developed to facilitate the Syrians’ access to the labor market. The event study method combined with interviews and desk research were used to evaluate the new policies and procedures developed to facilitate this access. It was found that Jordan succeeded in creating a legal and procedural environment that facilitates Syrians’ access to formal jobs, and the Syrians went a long way toward integration in Jordan. Nonetheless, they are still not fully integrated.

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“…(Amman,Syrian,Female,(30)(31)(32)(33)(34)(35) This practice also came up in other interviews and has also been mentioned in previous studies, with the report by HRW even noting a level of arbitrariness in the decision to return someone (e.g., Amnesty International, 2013; Human Rights Watch, 2017; Z. Ş. Mencütek & Nashwan, 2020). This, however, would violate the principle of non-refoulement under international refugee law and as guaranteed by the Jordanian Constitution.…”

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“…Next to that, it emerges that an intersectional lens should be taken towards refugees rather than only approaching their situation from the construct of gender, as this is by itself not sufficient to explain different strategies (c.f. Almakhamreh et al, 2020;Z. Ş. Mencütek & Nashwan, 2020).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…As the findings also suggest, merely explaining labour market outcomes through either status or the dichotomy of male vs. female does not suffice to explain how individuals shape their agency (see also Z. Ş. Mencütek & Nashwan, 2020). An intersectional lens is needed that connects refugee, gender, as well as origin, age, and education.…”

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Employment of Syrian refugees in Jordan: challenges and opportunities

Cited by 12 publications

References 29 publications

Psychological effects of quarantine on Syrian refugees, compared to the Jordanian populations

Psychological effects of quarantine on Syrian refugees, compared to the Jordanian populations

Syrian Refugees’ Integration Policies in Jordanian Labor Market

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