The project works to cover a gap in knowledge by focusing on how young people move from education to employment in protracted displacement. With an interdisciplinary team of researchers and practitioners, we are examining how education opportunities and experiences of refugees affect and shape pathways into employment and unemployment. The key idea is to understand the role of displacement and the particular status and restrictions that come with this status.
In this collaborative project, the overall question we seek to address is: In displacement settings, what shapes the trajectories of young people from education into employment? The project analyses the trajectories from education to employment of Palestinian and Syrian refugees and Lebanese and Jordanian nationals.
Lebanon and Jordan are like many countries where:
- refugees cannot automatically work
- work can only be accessed through a work permit
- there is a high degree of separation between poorer groups of Syrians, Palestinians and Jordanians/Lebanese.
Hence, trajectories from education and into employment must be understood in complex interaction with political, economic and social development at local, national and global scales.