The Paper Ceiling: How Foreign Degree Non-Recognition Traps Displaced Professionals in $70 Labor
By The Editors
KAKUMA, KENYA — Every morning at 6:30 AM, inside the triage tent of Clinic 3 in Kakuma 2, 42-year-old Dr. Patrick Kalonji fastens a faded cloth stethoscope around his neck. Kalonji performed over 1,200 emergency surgical procedures at the University Clinics of Lubumbashi in DRC. Yet in Kakuma, his formal job classification is Incentive Community Health Volunteer, capped at KSh 9,500 ($73) a month.