Regulating work for refugees and asylum seekers: Between labour market governance and humanitarianism - Wolters Kluwer

Regulating work for refugees and asylum seekers: Between labour market governance and humanitarianism The proliferation of forcibly displaced people has become one of the most pressing issues of contemporary public debate. This also raises the question of how refugees and asylum seekers should be provided for: whether through direct provision from states, or through their own work. In both public discourse and academic commentary this issue is usually framed as a binary question: to allow them to work or not allow them to work. However, work is not an activity performed in isolation, but it is traded within a competition-driven labour market, and is at the centre of a complex and multi-layered regulatory domain: labour law.