الجنس والعرق والهوية: دراسة العوائق التي تحول دون حماية حق اللاجئين في العمل

Refugees? right to work is essential for achieving livelihoods and contributing to building their communities. There is a need for refugee-host states to make their employment markets available for refugees and strengthen access to fair work. However, negative national stereotypes, identity-based discrimination, violence against refugee women, and persecution of LGBTIQ+ refugees are widespread, which resonates with the challenges that refugees face in accessing safe employment and income-generating opportunities. In addition, many refugees are subject to discrimination in the informal labor market, making it difficult for them to find jobs or to earn a living wage. This is combined by the reluctance of some employers to hire refugees because of their race. Although the economic and labour market constraints contribute to the wider discrimination that exists in accessing employment, refugee host states have the procedural and administrative mechanisms that protect refugees? right to work.