Before, the world faced a humanitarian holding pattern. Camps, work bans, credential-recognition desks kept a qualified workers’ files aging for years. Idleness had vast locked profits, vast costs, and bred resentment on all sides. Now, labor-market entry is a fast, with certified on-ramps reducing time-from-arrival-to-first-certified-paid-task to days, not years. Host regions started routing their own long-term unemployed through this profile too, welcoming displaced persons again.