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The EU-Jordan Compact: a model for burden-sharing in refugee crises?
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Körperschaftlicher Herausgeber
Bonn International Center for Conversion (BICC)
Abstract The EU has committed itself to relaxing its trade regime towards Jordan as an incentive to promote the employment of Syrian refugees staying in the country. However, the current limitation to garment, plastic and metal industries in designated special economic zones does not match the skills Syrians... mehr
The EU has committed itself to relaxing its trade regime towards Jordan as an incentive to promote the employment of Syrian refugees staying in the country. However, the current limitation to garment, plastic and metal industries in designated special economic zones does not match the skills Syrians have. Therefore, the EU-Jordan Compact should be opened up to further sectors, such as agro-industries.
The government of Jordan has waived work permit fees for Syrian refugees since April 2016 and has now stretched the grace period until the end of 2019. To make the planning for employees and job seekers reliable, the ILO and UNHCR should ensure that the waiver remains in place until Syrians can return home. Transparency about the future cost of work permits and early information before fees for work permits for Syrians are re-introduced are also necessary.
Work permits for Syrians are an entry point for refugees in formal labour relations. However, social security and labour rights are still not guaranteed for the majority of Syrian work permit holders. Agencies that support the implementation of the EU-Jordan Compact should insist on employers’ compliance with labour rights and ILO standards of decent work for work permit holders and assist in implementing them.
Establishing a business can alleviate tensions in the Jordanian labour market. The government of Jordan should relax the administrative barriers for Jordanian-Syrian joint ventures and abrogate restrictions for Syrians in access to finance. Small-scale home-based businesses for refugees should also be permitted.
To avoid failures in reaching the targets of the EU-Jordan Compact, Syrian refugees and Jordanian employers need to be included in revising the Compact. UNHCR could support the establishment of a representative refugee council, which should have an advisory role during the negotiations about the contents of the Compact in the mid-term review scheduled for 2020.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Arbeit; Migration; Lebensstandard; soziale Sicherung; internationales Abkommen; EU; Arbeitsmarkt; Flüchtling; Syrien; soziale Integration; EU-Politik; Jordanien; Arbeitserlaubnis; Beschäftigung; Flüchtlingspolitik
Klassifikation
spezielle Ressortpolitik
Europapolitik
Freie Schlagwörter
soziale Sicherheit
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2019
Auflage
3/2019
Erscheinungsort
Bonn
Seitenangabe
7 S.
Schriftenreihe
BICC Policy Brief, 3/2019
ISSN
2521-7801
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet
Lizenz
Creative Commons - Namensnennung, Nicht kommerz., Keine Bearbeitung 3.0