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Join the World Bank, UNHCR, and UK Government for the global launch of a report that synthesizes findings from a joint series of 26 working papers on forced displacement and social cohesion.
With a little help from the United Nations, refugees are getting put to work as cheap, expendable, mobile workers in a globalized industrial economy.
Syria is not safe for returning refugees and will not be for the foreseeable future. It is time for the global response to reckon with this truth.
The United States’ Trade Adjustment Assistance program is a federal policy in this vein that supports workers displaced by trade, but it’s small and not enough for a political consensus on free trade. Related proposals have been made on issues like immigration and infrastructure (e.g. minute 53 here), but trillion dollar bills remain on the sidewalk.