“Before the war, our life was very good. My father was a carpet-seller, I was studying. Life was constant, without dangers. Then the war began. Within eight months everything changed,” (Mohammed, 2015 cited in Gentleman, 2015) says Mohammad, a Syrian refugee. Mohammad’s story is not a unique story, about 4.8 million Syrian refugees only have fled their country to seek shelter and start a life in other countries. The UNHCR’s study found that the number of displaced people whether they are refugees or asylum seekers is increasing on a big scale and has exceeded 65 million people in 2016. According to UNHCR, Turkey is the number one country in terms of hosting refugees as it hosted 2,773,800 refugees by 30th June 2016. After being displaced from …show more content…
Because employers know that refugees mostly have no voice in society and that they will do anything to shelter and feed their families after what they have been through, refugee workers are usually taken advantage of and forced to work in inhumane conditions in addition to being discriminated against and their rights not being given to them. Surviving from absolute chaos at their home countries and fleeing to other countries, refugee workers still do not find the peace they deserve. Refugee workers deserve to find peace after all they have been through but instead they end up facing inhumane working conditions and discrimination in addition to exploitation.
Humanitarian organization should implement stricter regulations on employers employing refugees because refugee workers barely receive the rights they deserve. Every
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Some citizens have a misconception and believe that refugees are taking available jobs away from the locals in the country they seek refuge in. Due to that, refugee workers experience mistreatment as well as abuse be it verbal, emotional or physical. A common incident that female refugees face is sexual assault and harassment in addition to hearing demeaning and derogatory insults. Female refugee workers in particular are taken advantage of and are promised better living conditions and financial support in exchange of sexual favors for their bosses and people in high positions. Another incident that occurs frequently that refugees face whether they are women, men or children is being detained for a really long time with no real reason behind that other than authorities’ extreme racism and them looking down on the refugees. The number of refugees being held in detention is increasing worldwide. About 94.2 percent of refugees are held in detention in Canada for no apparent reason other than a so-called assumed security threat with no evidence whatsoever to back that claim. Another common discriminating act is that even though it is within the registered refugees’ rights to be able to work anywhere they would like in the country they have fled to, they continuously face many obstacles due