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That's an option that about 75 percent of Syrian refugees have taken.
Refugees in such urban areas don't usually have the right to work.
Around the world, we present refugees with an almost impossible choice between three options: encampment, urban destitution and dangerous journeys.
For refugees, that choice is the global refugee regime today.
The reason why we limit those options is because we think that those are the only options that are available to refugees, and they're not.
Politicians frame the issue as a zero-sum issue, that if we benefit refugees, we're imposing costs on citizens.
We tend to have a collective assumption that refugees are an inevitable cost or burden to society.
So what I want to argue is there are ways in which we can expand that choice set and still benefit everyone else: the host states and communities, our societies and refugees themselves.
And I want to suggest four ways we can transform the paradigm of how we think about refugees.
The first one I want to think about is the idea of enabling environments, and it starts from a very basic recognition that refugees are human beings like everyone else, but they're just in extraordinary circumstances.
Together with my colleagues in Oxford, we've embarked on a research project in Uganda looking at the economic lives of refugees.
Unlike most host countries around the world, what Uganda has done is give refugees economic opportunity.
And the results of that are extraordinary both for refugees and the host community.
In the capital city, Kampala, we found that 21 percent of refugees own a business that employs other people, and 40 percent of those employees are nationals of the host country.
In other words, refugees are making jobs for citizens of the host country.
For example, in a settlement called Nakivale, we found examples of Congolese refugees running digital music exchange businesses.
Against the odds of extreme constraint, refugees are innovating, and the gentleman you see before you is a Congolese guy called Demou-Kay.
It's those kinds of examples that should guide our response to refugees.
Rather than seeing refugees as inevitably dependent upon humanitarian assistance, we need to provide them with opportunities for human flourishing.
All the ways in which we take for granted that we are plugged in to the global economy can and should apply to refugees.
Most host countries don't open up their economies to refugees in the same way.
The idea is for an economic zone, one in which we could potentially integrate the employment of refugees alongside the employment of Jordanian host nationals.
And just 15 minutes away from the Zaatari refugee camp, home to 83,000 refugees, is an existing economic zone called the King Hussein Bin Talal Development Area.
So what if refugees were able to work there rather than being stuck in camps, able to support their families and develop skills through vocational training before they go back to Syria?
It could benefit refugees, but it could also contribute to the postconflict reconstruction of Syria by recognizing that we need to incubate refugees as the best source of eventually rebuilding Syria.
The third idea that I want to put to you is preference matching between states and refugees to lead to the kinds of happy outcomes you see here in the selfie featuring Angela Merkel and a Syrian refugee.
What we rarely do is ask refugees what they want, where they want to go, but I'd argue we can do that and still make everyone better off.
My colleagues Will Jones and Alex Teytelboym have explored ways in which that idea could be applied to refugees, to ask refugees to rank their preferred destinations, but also allow states to rank the types of refugees they want on skills criteria or language criteria and allow those to match.
So why not apply that to give refugees greater choice?
It could also be used at the national level, where one of the great challenges we face is to persuade local communities to accept refugees.
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