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Showing posts with label Turkey. Show all posts
03/01/2018
Legal employment hardly accessible to refugees in Turkey
While refugees are allowed to seek employment under Turkish law, legal jobs are largely inaccessible for the vast majority of refugees in Turkey. In its study, “I Am Only Looking for My Rights”: Legal Employment Still Inaccessible to Refugees in Turkey, Refugees International examines the challenges and consequences facing refugees as they seek employment in Turkey. The study is based on a October 2017 research mission.
The report finds that without legal employment, refugees become trapped in a cycle of informal work where the risk of exploitation and abuse is high and wages are low.
Refugees in Turkey face enormous hurdles to finding legal employment and commonly work excessively long hours often in difficult working conditions and are paid a faction of their Turkish counterparts. In addition, the lack of decent wages for adult refugees pushes many refugee children into the job market as well, instead of attending school.
One of the difficulties refugees face is a climate of hostility and negative myths about the impact of refugees on Turkish society.
The report offers the following policy recommendations (a.o):
13/09/2017
KNOMAD study on Refugees' Right to Work and Access to Labor Markets
Refugees' Right to Work and Access to Labor Markets
A December 2016 study produced under the KNOMAD's Thematic Working Group on Migration and Development finds a generally restrictive approach to refugees’ right to work across 20 countries that have taken in 70 per cent of the world’s refugees. Most are reluctant to ease these restrictions too.
The majority of refugees work in the informal sector, but under much less satisfactory and more exploitative conditions compared with nationals. Informal labour markets are also constrained in countries with fragile economies which often host large numbers of refugees, says the study.
The research concludes that:
-more national and international coordination is required,
-multiple actors should share in the responsibility to deliver decent work,
-labour market policies as well as training and education should be harnessed to support sustainable livelihoods,
-refugee social capital should be more effectively engaged.
Thematic bibliography
We would like to recommend once again to follow the thematic electronic updates of the Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog. We reproduce the last thematic bibliography that may interest our readers.
Posted: 25 Aug 2017 12:27 PM PDT
11/07/2017
INTERSOS is looking for a consultant Policy researcher Jordan-Lebanon- Turkey
INTERSOS is an independent humanitarian organization that assists the victims of natural disasters, armed conflicts and exclusion. Its activities are based on the principles of solidarity, justice, human dignity, equality of rights and opportunities, respect for diversity and coexistence, paying special attention to the most vulnerable people.
1. Terms of reference
Job title: Policy Researcher
Duty Station: Roving (Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey)
Starting date: 24st July 2017
Duration of contract: 1.5 months
Reporting to: INTERSOS MMP Analyst
2. General context of the project
The Mixed Migration Platform (MMP) is a joint initiative of seven INGOs that provides quality mixed migration-related information for policy, programming and advocacy work, as well as critical information for people on the move. The platform also acts as a mixed migration information hub for the Middle East and focuses on people within mixed migration flows moving to, within and from the region, as well as linked secondary regions such as Europe or Central Asia and South West Asia (CASWA).
3. General purpose of the position
To provide a critical analysis of the existing OHCHR principles and guidelines - and other relevant guidelines - for the protection of the human rights of migrants in vulnerable situations. Those other guidelines include: the ILO Guiding Principles on the Access of Refugees other Forcibly Displaced Persons to the Labour Market and the IOM Migrants in Countries in Crisis guidelines.
Regional case study-based examinations of Principle 6 (human rights-based returns) and 14 (the right to work) will be used.
14/10/2016
New study on Refugees' Right to Work and Access to Labor Markets
Refugees' Right to Work and Access to Labor Markets
A new study produced under the KNOMAD's Thematic Working Group on Migration and Development finds a generally restrictive approach to refugees’ right to work across 20 countries that have taken in 70 per cent of the world’s refugees. Most are reluctant to ease these restrictions too.
The majority of refugees work in the informal sector, but under much less satisfactory and more exploitative conditions compared with nationals. Informal labour markets are also constrained in countries with fragile economies which often host large numbers of refugees, says the study.
The research concludes that:
-more national and international coordination is required,
-multiple actors should share in the responsibility to deliver decent work,
-labour market policies as well as training and education should be harnessed to support sustainable livelihoods,
-refugee social capital should be more effectively engaged.
The research concludes that:
-more national and international coordination is required,
-multiple actors should share in the responsibility to deliver decent work,
-labour market policies as well as training and education should be harnessed to support sustainable livelihoods,
-refugee social capital should be more effectively engaged.
09/02/2016
Will Turkey grant Syrian Refugees the Right to Work?
We would like to reproduce
an already dated article (7 August 2015) by Dasha Afanasieva entitled 'Turkey will
not give Syrian Refugees Right to Work' highlighting the plight
of Syrian refugees in Turkey. Do not hesitate to send us any updates on this
topic.
20/05/2015
Syrian Refugees and the Right to Work: Developing Temporary Protection in Turkey
In the article "Syrian Refugees and the Right to Work: Developing Temporary Protection in Turkey," published in the Boston University International Law Journal, Sarah Bidinger analyzes the Turkish legal framework relevant for granting the right to work to Syrian refugees, at a time when the Turkish government envisage this measure (see our previous article for detailed information on the modalities).
Sarah Bidinger argues that 'Turkey must develop creative means to address the livelihood issues that
Syrian refugees face while waiting to return home. The most positive and
efficient method to address these issues involves promulgating regulations
within Turkey’s temporary protection scheme to give Syrian refugees the
legal right to work.
The legal frameworks for regulating foreign workers
already exist within Turkish laws on Foreigners and International
Protection and Work Permits of Foreigners.
Allow Refugees to Work Says UN, as Turkey Prepares to Host 2.5m refugees
UN top officials declares that allowing
refugees to access the legal labour market is a good practice to be duplicated
in a Newsweek
article dating 28/04/2015 :
Allowing refugees to enter the workforce
helps to relieve the humanitarian burden in host countries and is "best
practice" according to a top UN official, who is warning that Turkey needs
help from the international community to deal with "an unprecedented"
number of refugees. Many refugees will enter the labour market, both legally
and illegally warns Clark, but if they enter it illegally they are in danger of
being exploited. "In the case of access to the labour market, this is most
definitely a best practice," she adds.
Helen Clark, the administrator of the UN
Development Program (UNDP) says countries bearing the brunt of the refugee
crisis caused by the ongoing conflicts in Syria, Iraq and Libya, need more
support. She points out that legislation proposed by the Turkish
government, which will allow refugees to enter certain sectors of the
labour market if passed, is a positive move, and one that other countries
should consider also adopting.
10/05/2015
Forced Migration Current Awareness Blogs' update focused on right to work of refugees
The last Forced Migration Current Awareness Blogs' update is focusing on the right to work of refugees and related economic aspects. We reproduce hereafter the thematic update articles that are of particular relevance for our blog. We also highly recommend following the Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog. We will dedicate further posts to detail the content of the following article.
01/05/2015
MPI Report examines situation of Syrian refugees in Turkey (incl. finding work)
New MPI Transatlantic Council on Migration Report Examines Turkey’s Response
to the Syrian Refugee Crisis and the Challenges Ahead
MPI Holds Event May 4 to Discuss Worsening Syrian Crisis
Turkey is currently host to the largest community of displaced Syrians in the region. Adding to the challenge, the rising refugee inflows have occurred even as Turkey was in the midst of overhauling its asylum and reception system to meet international, and particularly European Union, standards. The country, which according to United Nations estimates had more than 1.7 million Syrian refugees as of March, has largely shouldered the burden on its own—spending $5 billion as of early 2015, with just 3 percent coming from international community contributions.
A new report from the Migration Policy Institute’s Transatlantic Council on Migration, Syrian Refugees in Turkey: The Long Road Ahead, by Ahmet İçduygu, dean of the College of Social Sciences and Humanities at Koç University in Istanbul, examines the policies and conditions of Syrian refugees, as well as the implementation of reforms to Turkey’s migration law. With growing dispersion and movement of Syrian refugees through Turkey to other countries, mainly in Europe, Turkey’s experience and policies towards the arrivals have implications for the broader region. As the numbers of Syrians overwhelmed the capacity of camps funded and managed by the Turkish state and NGOs, refugees started taking shelter in towns and cities throughout the country. Many struggle to access adequate housing and services, and are forced to find work in the informal economy, often for extremely low wages. The Turkish public, meanwhile, is expressing increased concern about the high numbers of Syrians and there is a growing sense that the newcomers are driving up housing costs and competing with Turks for jobs.
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