{"title":"The Future of Refugee Livelihoods Programming: Lessons From the Jordan Compact","authors":"Katharina Lenner, Lewis Turner","doi":"10.1111/imig.70171","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/imig.70171","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Livelihoods have been a central element of the humanitarian response to the Syria crisis. This was especially the case in Jordan, with the Jordan Compact promising hundreds of thousands of jobs for Syrians, and development opportunities for their hosts. In this commentary, we highlight three broader lessons from the scheme, the results of which were disappointing for many Syrians. Livelihoods interventions must ensure that indicators of success are linked to tangible changes in refugees' lives; that refugees' integration into national systems is done cautiously, in ways adapted to their circumstances and priorities; and that much more attention is paid to the gendered, racialised and classed nature of labour market dynamics. In order to achieve these goals, refugees' experiences and aspirations as labour market participants, and their own assessments of whether and how their lives have improved, must be at the heart of future programme design, implementation and evaluation.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48011,"journal":{"name":"International Migration","volume":"64 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2026-05-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148078502","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Introversion to Digital Ghettos: Wilful Self-Exclusion of Syrian Refugees in Türkiye","authors":"Haldun Narmanlıoğlu, Serkan Bayrakcı","doi":"10.1111/imig.70178","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/imig.70178","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This study foregrounds digital exclusion as a driver of wilful self-exclusion among Syrian refugees in Türkiye, challenging the premise that online communication inherently facilitates integration. Guided by a theoretical framework that bridges the contact hypothesis, social capital theory and concepts of digital othering, it analyses how refugees navigate online socialization and economic participation. Drawing on semi-structured interviews with 37 refugees, the research reveals that in response to online hostility and digital ignoring, they strategically retreat into their own ethnic networks. This wilful self-exclusion gives rise to a digital refugee ghetto—an analytical construct denoting a structural and symbolic enclave that serves as a protective buffer in a hostile socio-political context. Diverging from Eurocentric studies that predominantly highlight the integrative potential of digital platforms, this research demonstrates that digital environments can actively facilitate introversion rather than social inclusion. The study concludes by calling for targeted digital governance and broader social cohesion policies to address the root causes of systemic digital exclusion.</p>","PeriodicalId":48011,"journal":{"name":"International Migration","volume":"64 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2026-05-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/imig.70178","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148073530","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Dual Temporalities of Peace Governance and Refugee Returns: Reflections From the Syrian War","authors":"Tamirace Fakhoury","doi":"10.1111/imig.70174","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/imig.70174","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Peace governance and the rights-based politics of refugee returns are inseparable, yet in practice they unfold in isolation. Even when peace agreements include return provisions, peace transitions and dignified returns rarely align. This paper draws on the Syrian war as a foundational case to show how these processes, each central to the remaking of political order, have moved along discordant tracks. It distils three lessons from the Syrian war. First, refugee return evolved during the war into a marketplace for transactional conflict management. Second, a stark misalignment has persisted between top-down initiatives and the bottom-up practices through which grassroots communities have negotiated political voice. Third, refugees have remained excluded as peace actors despite their centrality to any post-war order. The Syrian case highlights the need for research on anticipatory peacebuilding defined here as an approach to peace governance that works on the conditions needed for future peace by integrating grassroots communities and refugees as peace actors long before hostilities end.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48011,"journal":{"name":"International Migration","volume":"64 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2026-05-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148073201","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}