Multistakeholder Pledge: Refugee Labour Mobility

Key outcomes: to improve access to family reunification for refugees and build additional complementary pathways, increase economic inclusion and access to livelihoods, and expand access to higher education.
Multi-stakeholder pledges - GCR Objective 3

Multistakeholder Pledge: Refugee Labour Mobility

Key outcomes: to improve access to family reunification for refugees and build additional complementary pathways, increase economic inclusion and access to livelihoods, and expand access to higher education.

Background

Global Task Force on Refugee Labour Mobility Pathways, chaired by the Canadian government has called on its members and member of the global community of practice to come together on a pledge committing to refugees’ unhindered access to labour mobility opportunities.

Pledge description

The pledge aims to work towards lifting obstacles to ensure refugees are able use of existing migration pathways and exploring where new labour mobility opportunities should be created.

This is to be achieved:

  • By ensuring that refugees can access documents, ombudsman, complaints and other protection mechanisms.
  • By including family unity provisions in the visas refugees use to access pathways.
  • By ensuring refugees have access to needed support, facilitation, accompaniment and other resources to help them navigate the often long, complex, and costly immigration process.
  • By giving refugees the right of return and other opportunities to step away from dangerous situations.
  • Through encouraging and assisting employers to hire refugees through labour mobility pathways as part of their talent acquisition strategies.

To this end the coalition of partners aims to achieve the goal of 200,000 refugees arriving on labour mobility pathways in 5 years time.

Leadership

  • Global Task Force on Refugee Labour Mobility
  • Global Task Force on Third Country Education

Members

  • Government of Australia
  • Government of Canada
  • Fragomen LLC
  • International Chamber of Commerce (ICC)
  • RefugePoint
  • Talent Beyond Boundaries (TBB)
  • IOM

Contact details

DIP Resettlement and Complementary Pathways Service, UNHCR

Calendar

  • Jun-Sept 2023: Identification and Consultations with States and Key Actors
  • Sept-Dec 2023: Pledge development and launch at GRF

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