Before the Syrian civil war, Egyptians were the single largest migrant labor community in Jordan. Labor market pressures and changes to the Jordanian work permit system have resulted in the increasing vulnerability of Egyptian labor, who have been the primary labor force on Jordanian farms and construction sites since the late 1970s. Using new data from the 2015 Jordanian census, the 2010 and 2016 Jordan Labor Market Panel Survey, and field interviews conducted in Jordan from 2014 to 2018, I show that higher concentrations of Syrians at the subdistrict level are associated with higher rates of informal labor market participation for Egyptians. Furthermore, higher proportions of Syrians do not correlate with negative impacts on the formality or household wealth of Jordanian citizens, suggesting that Syrian labor does not directly compete with the Jordanian labor force. Given the importance of supporting host communities during refugee crises, this analysis sheds light on how mass forced migration affects other vulnerable segments of the migrant labor force in the Global South.

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难民融合对约旦移民劳工的影响

在叙利亚内战之前，埃及人是约旦最大的移民劳工社区。劳动力市场压力和约旦工作许可制度的变化导致埃及劳动力日益脆弱，自 1970 年代后期以来，埃及劳动力一直是约旦农场和建筑工地的主要劳动力。使用 2015 年约旦人口普查、2010 年和 2016 年约旦劳动力市场小组调查以及 2014 年至 2018 年在约旦进行的实地访谈的新数据，我表明，在街道一级更高的叙利亚人集中度与更高的非正规劳动力市场率有关埃及人的参与。此外，较高比例的叙利亚人与对约旦公民的形式或家庭财富的负面影响无关，表明叙利亚劳动力不直接与约旦劳动力竞争。鉴于在难民危机期间支持东道社区的重要性，这项分析揭示了大规模强迫移民如何影响全球南方移民劳动力的其他弱势群体。