Hello
delegates!
The Immigration
Policy Lab at Stanford and ETH Zürich released a paper in November of last year
around the long-term effect of refugee employment bans. The link to download
the paper can be found at https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/faculty-research/working-papers/long-term-impact-employment-bans-economic-integration-refugees.
Although it
seems lengthy, I’d like to direct you to the Introduction (pages 3-5) and
Discussion (pages 11-12) sections as likely the most valuable for your purposes
– the rest of the paper largely concerns a case study on Yugoslav refugees who arrived
in Germany in 1999 and 2000 which may be enlightening but mostly concern
details about the study and how it was conducted.
See you all at conference next week!
Hubert
In seeing that the number of people seeking refuge continues to increase throughout the international community, it is understandable as to why countries are becoming more cautious on their policies regarding their workforce. The country of Botswana’s policy currently only allows a certain number of refugees into our nation annually, however, we have taken insight on the measures that need to be made in order to properly regulate and shape a working economic system.
ReplyDeleteIn regards to employment bans, Botswana firmly believes in the creation of a new plan to spread throughout the globe. The Temporary Employment Plan for crisis Non-Citizens or TEPCNC, is our countries key solution to combat the issue at hand and ensure that refugees or asylum seekers are receiving the proper maintenance that the need. Once refugees are accepted into camps in a country, they will be given an application for multiple employment opportunities. They will of course need to have the skill set to work at these institutions and the jobs must be safe and out of conflict areas as to ensure protection. In order to provide these jobs, countries should reach out to NGOs, non-profits, as well as large corporations and manufacturers to offer positions. Once the application is complete and a job position has been granted, the host country must use a temporary work visa and offer the citizen an identification number. The temporary worker will be taxed the same as any working citizen in that country and will work until their refugee status is no longer valid. This solution will help not only to stimulate the economy of the host country but will also offer refugees a chance to make income and support their families while in camps or holding facilities.
Botswana strongly believes that this will be most beneficial to a nations economy as well as the health and saftey of an individual.
ReplyDeleteThe delegation of Germany strongly supports this article and what it proves. Strict employment bands have devastating effects on how quickly and effectively refugees and asylum seekers are integrated. Not only does it prevent the individual from working for a certain amount of months, but the government will have to support the refugee until they are able to provide for themselves.
In this paper it shows Germany’s employment band being quite long at 12 months. However, just recently it was lowered due to seeing the results of studies like this. In order to improve the integration of refugees, policies such as these should be loosened. However, certain employment bands are necessary to make sure the host citizens do not develop overly harsh feeling of refugees and so that if refugee status is denied not as much kickback happens.
Nevertheless, unreasonably long employment bands that prevent new arrivals from getting work, leaves them with no source of income. In order to survive some of these people resort to the underground economy which is the other issue we will be discussing.
During this conference the Delegation of Germany sincerely hopes for the UN nations to unify their policies regarding refugees to better integrate them into society and a good part of that is employment bands.
Thank you and the Delegation of Germany hopes this topic will come up during committee so we can learn about other’s policies and perhaps take them into account when writing resolutions!
Most international and national wars cause refugees around the world, and while the huge amount of refugee population enters Europe and a lot of other countries, it deeply impacts the economic and social structure in the host region. Thus, the governments concern if the refugees take away the jobs of their own citizens, which then often times results in employment bans among six to twelfth months enacting on the new asylum seekers’ arrivals.
ReplyDeleteThe Republic of Chad strongly advocates the reduction or even elimination of employment bans for the best of the economy. Referring to the research in Germany that has been discussed in the article above, the employment bans restrict the refugees from joining the labor force and being able to financially support themselves. In this case, the refugees could not become members of the new country years since their arrivals, which continues the poor living conditions of the refugees after experiencing the horrible national conflicts. Furthermore, even though giving the refugees a fair chance to compete in the labor market seems to hurt the interest of local citizens, it actually reduces the taxes that are imposed in the community. When the refugees are allowed to get jobs and feed their families, the welfare expenditures go down as a part of the taxes, which is also beneficial for all the citizens.
The employment bans in general do not help the economy to thrive or public’s interest to raise. In other words, eliminating the employment bans would potentially lead to a more prosperous society.