Assessing Advocacies for Forcibly Displaced People: A Comprehensive Approach

Abstract

This article assesses various advocacy practices for forcibly displaced people (FDP) through the analysis of advocacy networks, the examination of the goals that they pursue, and their ways of working. Three basic approaches, the welfare-based, the legal-based, and the capability-based approaches, are assessed. From this assessment, this study suggests the recognition of shared humanity as an entry point for advocacy, which offers a cosmopolitan understanding of rights and duties, and the most comprehensive protection for FDP. The main argument of this study is that if the demand for recognition is not heard, relief for refugees and other displaced people will lack an essential dimension. It is the demand to be recognized as human beings that engenders responsibility for forced migrants. Instead of prescribing a list of what to do, or not to do, this reflection has rather suggested a way of being and dealing with the forcibly displaced. This stance goes beyond the facility of typical responses that are known in advance.

Resilience, Ambiguous Governance, and the Ukrainian Refugee Crisis: Perspectives from NGO Leaders in the Czech Republic

“…Hutton and colleagues (2021) further emphasise the significance of prioritising capacity-building interventions for NGOs during times of crisis to build resilience. Migration NGOs specifically demonstrate resilience in their ability to navigate conversations in the public sphere as allies to forced migrants (Bado, 2016;Kluknavská et al, 2019), as well as to further develop organisational capacities to serve a sudden influx of clients (Mason & Fiocco, 2017), provide basic services and humanitarian aid for migrants where resources may be limited (Sezgin & Dijkzeul, 2014), and build upon existing relationships with other NGOs to serve migrants better (Teo et al, 2017). Our study adds and builds upon this literature as we address how migration NGOs and non-migration NGOs in the Czech Republic respond and demonstrate resilience in the context of the Ukrainian refugee crisis following the Russian invasion of Ukraine.…”

Urban Solidarity: Perspectives of Migration and Refugee Accommodation and Inclusion

“…This perspective has connected solidarity with migrants and refugees to humanitarianism and hospitality (Chouliaraki and Stolic, 2017;Musarò and Parmiggiani, 2017). A further perspective references solidarity in a Kantian perspective of universal practical reason according to which solidarity with migrants and refugees is inspired by human equality and the responsibility toward upholding human and other universal rights (Bado, 2016;Siebold, 2017). Finally, solidarity has been framed in a Hegelian-Marxian perspective that stresses liberation from oppression in the form of the political inclusion and economic participation of migrants and refugees (Baban and Rygiel, 2017;Campbell, 2016).…”

Migrant solidarities and the politics of place

“…Related research grounds solidarity towards international migrants and refugees ‘in human dignity and equality’ (Kerwin, 2016: 91). Research published in interdisciplinary and ethnography and psychology journals shows that solidarity advocates stress a common humanity to mitigate between categories such as citizen, migrant and refugees (Kallius et al, 2016: 27) that nation-states and their policies impose (Bado, 2016; Mahendran, 2017; Hollenbach, 2016). Advocates of more radical no-border politics, too, sometimes apply this interpretation and associate solidarity with ‘relationships based on presumed equality’ and reciprocity among people helping each other in the face of oppression (King, 2016: 52).…”