Refugees and humanitarian policy: development perspectives

Meral, Amanda Gray; Barbelet, Véronique

doi:10.4337/9781839100871.00030

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“…As noted by Gray Meral et al. (2022), the humanitarian sector excluded both refugees and non‐refugees, including migrant workers—stakeholders who have been little considered in the mainstream humanitarian sector. This does not demonstrate that such marginalization was a direct result of the exclusivity of the Jordan Compact.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…First, the system to register foreign‐funded projects for approval in the Ministry of Planning, JORISS, acknowledges only the inclusion of Syrian refugees and Jordanian host communities. Projects funded by foreign agencies reflected this and disproportionately restricted funds to Syrian refugees (Gray Meral et al., 2022)—so that, anecdotally, some organizations report their listing of non‐Syrian beneficiaries as Syrians because of the restrictions in the approvals and project reporting. Others reported that projects would be rejected if they specified non‐Syrian refugees in the proposal, as these activities are not aligned with the Jordan Response Plan (Bjerg, 2022; Gray Meral et al., 2022).…”

Section: Post‐2015 Marginalization Of Minority Refugee Groupsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Projects funded by foreign agencies reflected this and disproportionately restricted funds to Syrian refugees (Gray Meral et al., 2022)—so that, anecdotally, some organizations report their listing of non‐Syrian beneficiaries as Syrians because of the restrictions in the approvals and project reporting. Others reported that projects would be rejected if they specified non‐Syrian refugees in the proposal, as these activities are not aligned with the Jordan Response Plan (Bjerg, 2022; Gray Meral et al., 2022). Ultimately, while more donors have recognized the acute needs of non‐Syrian refugees, the response continues to follow a path dependency set in the early days, defined largely by the “crisis.”…”

Section: Post‐2015 Marginalization Of Minority Refugee Groupsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This means that there is no mention of non‐Syrian refugees as project beneficiaries. Furthermore, the Compact deal and associated outcomes and incentives were restricted to the employment of Syrian refugees (Gray Meral et al., 2022).…”

Section: The Jordan Compact and Formation Of Syrian‐specific Aid And ...mentioning

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“…For example, although the World Food Programme launched a flagship voucher‐distribution programme in Jordan in 2013, it was only in 2019 that non‐Syrian refugees were included (Baslan & Williams, 2021). Linked to this, that same year non‐Syrian refugees were included in the annual Comprehensive Food Security Vulnerability Analysis report, a key data reference for determining the needs of refugees and associated programmes and service provision (Gray Meral et al., 2022). More recently, in 2022, UNHCR expanded its annual Vulnerability Assessment Framework (VAF) report to include non‐Syrian refugees for the first time (Hall, & UNHCR Jordan, 2022).…”

Section: Post‐2015 Marginalization Of Minority Refugee Groupsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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How humanitarian–development responses may discriminate by nationality: Refugee and migrant inclusion following the 2016 Jordan Compact

Almasri

2023

Development Policy Review

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MotivationThe Jordan Compact was signed in 2016 by the Government of Jordan and the European Union (EU) to allow 200,000 Syrian refugees to work in Jordan in exchange for better access to the EU market for Jordan's exports. This marked a transition for Jordan's humanitarian sector. However, while services indeed expanded and elements of labour transitions and livelihood support were included, these benefits were exclusively for Syrian refugees and Jordanians, with little consideration to other vulnerable refugees and migrant workers.PurposeWe examine how the Jordan Compact affected refugee aid and inclusion for Syrians, and its effects on other refugees and migrant workers in Jordan.Methods and approachWe draw on media and news articles, reports from non‐government organizations (NGOs) and the United Nations, Jordanian law and policy, and prior academic research. We analyse the content of key informant interviews with representatives of government, international organizations, and NGOs conducted in August 2019. We use observations from the author's experience as a development worker in Jordan from 2016 to 2020.Policy implicationsSituated in an increasingly complex debate on the differential reception of refugees, we show differential treatment of refugees beyond reception and border policy. The selective, temporary, nationality‐based legalization of refugee labour is intrinsically linked to the nature of refugeehood, in which governments cannot maintain strict short‐term limits on residency as they can with migrant labour.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Post‐2015 Marginalization Of Minority Refugee Groupsmentioning

confidence: 99%