Hospitality and Sovereignty: What Can We Learn From the Canadian Private Sponsorship of Refugees Program?

Krivenko, Ekaterina Yahyaoui

doi:10.1093/ijrl/ees039

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“…36 This programme harnesses private citizens' support for refugees, who implement international protection obligations as an alternative to the State. 37 As these few examples show, private actors come together in different ways to implement human rights, which are not the sole concern of States but a broad web of actors and norms.…”

Section: Challenging State-centric Legalism: Promoting Other Measuresmentioning

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Challenging State-centricity and legalism: promoting the role of social institutions in the domestic implementation of international human rights law

Fraser

2019

The International Journal of Human Rights

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Despite the proliferation of human rights in the last 70 years, they continue to be poorly implemented and violated around the world, revealing the gap between law and practice. This article considers the implementation measures a State can take domestically to realise rights. While much scholarship focuses on legal measures of implementation, this article focuses on 'other measures' and the role of non-state actors and norms therein. Due to the legalism predominant in human rights, other, nonlegislative measures of implementation have been under-explored in theory and under-exploited in practice. As a corollary, given the State-centricity of international law, the role of non-state actors and norms like social institutions in the domestic implementation of human rights has also been neglected. However, there are limitations to such a reliance upon formal State institutions to implement rights, and benefits to employing informal social institutions. These benefits include enhancing the local and cultural legitimacy and resonance of rights, as well as expanding the domestic constituents for rights. As such, this article advocates the need for the domestic implementation of human rights to go beyond State-centric legalism and to include social institutions.

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Section: Challenging State-centric Legalism: Promoting Other Measuresmentioning

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Challenging State-centricity and legalism: promoting the role of social institutions in the domestic implementation of international human rights law

Fraser

2019

The International Journal of Human Rights

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“…One of the central benefits of the PSRP is the way it permits citizens to respond to crises around the world; it is a flexible tool, available to Canadians to support refugees when they feel obligated or moved to do so (Krivenko, 2012). Canadians have made use of the program to support not only the Indochinese, but also Kosovars in the late 1990s, Iraqis through the 1990s and 2000s and most recently Syrians.…”

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Creating Canadians through Private Sponsorship

2020

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Abstract We investigate how refugee sponsors and sponsorship groups approach their responsibility to “create new Canadians.” We set the stage by reflecting on the history of Canada as an immigrant-receiving, multicultural country, as well as on the role of acculturation attitudes of host community members in establishing the integration environment for newcomers in general. We use findings from nearly 60 interviews with sponsors in the Ottawa area to outline the different approaches that sponsors take. Approaches to sponsorship fall into three general orientations: paternalistic, passive paternalistic and mutualistic. These approaches manifest in the actions that sponsors take during the sponsorship process. In our discussion, we consider the implications of these approaches for the sponsor–refugee relationship, as well as the broader project of Canadian multiculturalism. We argue that mutualistic approaches best demonstrate welcoming acculturation orientations to newcomers, and that they are an important component of supporting privately sponsored refugees to become Canadians.

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“…SeeFratzke (2017);Kumin (2015); YahyaouiKrivenko (2012). On the pilot projects sponsored by religious entities in Italy, seeGois and Falchi (2017); Morozzo della Rocca (2017).…”

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The allocation of competence in asylum procedures under EU law: The need to take the Dublin bull by the horns

Filippo¹

2018

Rev. Derecho Comunitario Eur.

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Hospitality and Sovereignty: What Can We Learn From the Canadian Private Sponsorship of Refugees Program?

Cited by 25 publications

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Challenging State-centricity and legalism: promoting the role of social institutions in the domestic implementation of international human rights law

Challenging State-centricity and legalism: promoting the role of social institutions in the domestic implementation of international human rights law

Creating Canadians through Private Sponsorship

The allocation of competence in asylum procedures under EU law: The need to take the Dublin bull by the horns

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