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The Global Code of Practice on International Recruitment of Health Personnel, which should monitor and protect migrant health workers, offers little guidance for refugees and research is needed to inform strategy. Based on interviews with 34 refugee health workers and 10 leaders across two settlements supporting populations fleeing the humanitarian crisis in South Sudan since 2013, we describe the governance and social dynamics affecting South Sudanese refugee health worker employment in Uganda. Refugees in Uganda legally have the right to work but face an employment crisis. Refugee health workers report that systemic discrimination, competition from underemployed domestic workers, unclear work permit rules and expensive credentialling processes exclude them from meaningful work in public health facilities and good jobs in the humanitarian response. This pushes them into unchallenging roles in private clinics, poorly remunerated positions on village health teams or out of the health sector altogether. Health system strengthening initiatives in Uganda to integrate humanitarian and government services and to deter the domestic workforce from emigration have overlooked the potential contributions of refugee health workers and the employment crisis they face. 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