‘In Exile, the Woman Became Everything’

Sidhva, Dina; Zuntz, Ann-Christin; Akash, Ruba Al; Nashwan, Ayat; Al-Majali, Areej

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“…REACH, 2020). Besides policy‐related obstacles, this is because home‐based work, particularly for Syrian women, is usually ‘survival‐oriented’, and marked by a struggle to reconcile paid work with care responsibilities and social obligations (Olmsted and Killian, 2020; Sidhva et al., 2021). Given these conditions, paid work is usually sporadic and unpredictable, and payment levels are extremely low.…”

Section: The Limits Of Formalizing Women's Entrepreneurshipmentioning

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The Jordan Compact, Refugee Labour and the Limits of Indicator‐oriented Formalization

Lenner,

Turner

2024

Development and Change

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This article explores the significance of initiatives to formalize the labour market participation of refugees. Many practitioners believe that formalization is a panacea for improving the lives of marginalized workers, including refugees. This article argues, however, that in practice it easily becomes an indicator‐oriented exercise, where readily quantifiable targets are prioritized over substantive improvements. To this end, the article analyses the trajectory of the Jordan Compact, a flagship initiative that brought together humanitarian, development and labour actors to create ‘win‐win’ solutions for Syrians and Jordanians. Drawing on years of qualitative fieldwork in Jordan, the article traces how the Jordan Compact has made formalization an end in itself, with little regard for how much it actually benefits workers. It examines three central areas of programming: work permits, home‐based businesses and working conditions. In each area, the article demonstrates how the chosen indicators have shaped initiatives while undermining meaningful reform. Bringing together insights from humanitarianism, development and critical labour studies, the analysis shows that indicator‐oriented formalization, a form of measurement‐driven governance, ostensibly produces impressive results, yet it can simultaneously undermine longer‐term, multidimensional processes that would benefit workers more. The article advocates shifting the focus onto the individual and collective power of workers so that they can better realize the potential benefits of formalization.

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Section: The Limits Of Formalizing Women's Entrepreneurshipmentioning

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The Jordan Compact, Refugee Labour and the Limits of Indicator‐oriented Formalization

Lenner,

Turner

2024

Development and Change

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“…In 2012, Um Faisal's family lost their house in an air raid, and they moved to Gaziantep, a Turkish city an hour's drive away from Aleppo. A year later, her husband suffered a stroke, and, like many older Syrian women, Um Faisal had to step up when the family's original breadwinner became incapacitated (Sidhva et al 2021). As an illiterate woman with no professional qualifications or Turkish skills, she had limited options.…”

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Human Routers

Zuntz

2023

Cult. Anthropol.

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Syrian refugees resort to a rich ecosystem of brokers who not only facilitate border crossings but also move remittances, jobs, knowledge, wives, and more. How are refugees’ circulations made possible, and by whom? Drawing on fieldwork with Syrian brokers in Turkey and the United Kingdom, I put forward the novel concepts of a Syrian infrastructure of displacement and of refugee brokers as a particular infrastructural component, namely, as human routers. Like routers, brokers manage, direct, and control resource flows. Revisiting Julia Elyachar’s concept of communicative channels, I contend that refugee brokers and their clients rely on such pre-existing connections, built on shared experiences of migration, brokerage, and hospitality. Reactivated in exile through brokers’ performances of “Syrianness,” these channels facilitate a shared sense of belonging needed for their business transactions. The ways in which refugee brokers slip seamlessly between business, charitable deeds, and exploitation challenge the abstract ideas of disinterested solidarity that underpin mainstream humanitarianism.

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“…Extended exile has significant impacts on the experience of the displaced as well as host societies, most often countries of first asylum. Hyndman & Giles (2016) consider the global political context for the lived experience of persons and families in protracted exile; research on the experience of women in protracted displacement has revealed their vulnerability, resilience, and innovation in maintaining and protecting themselves and families (Elnakib et al 2021, Munt 2012, Nolan 2006, Sidhva et al 2021.…”

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Social Consequences of Forced and Refugee Migration

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This review considers sociological perspectives and research on the outcomes and implications of forced and refugee migration for migrants and communities of settlement. Analytic constraints and opportunities posed by concepts of forced and refugee migration and migrants for empirical research are underscored. The tendencies for research on forced and refugee migration to serve policy and programs are addressed in relationship to the conceptualization of processes of displacement as well as research design. A social demographic lens is used to illustrate a record of research on the consequences of forced and refugee migration and settlement. Accordingly, we review empirical literature on patterns of spatial mobility, health and well-being, social and economic integration, and family and community dynamics at different scales. Implications of global issues such as climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic are considered. Analytic issues emerge from the intersections, and lack thereof, between forced migration, refugee studies, and migration policy analysis and provide critical opportunities for contributions by sociologists and social scientists more generally. Expected final online publication date for the Annual Review of Sociology, Volume 49 is July 2023. Please see http://www.annualreviews.org/page/journal/pubdates for revised estimates.

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‘In Exile, the Woman Became Everything’

Cited by 8 publications

References 39 publications

The Jordan Compact, Refugee Labour and the Limits of Indicator‐oriented Formalization

The Jordan Compact, Refugee Labour and the Limits of Indicator‐oriented Formalization

Human Routers

Social Consequences of Forced and Refugee Migration

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