In limbo in world’s oldest refugee camps: Where 10 million people can spend years, or even decades

Finch, Tim

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“…For example, the Palestinian refugee community occupies the same limited geographic space it did 72 years ago (El Masri, 2020). Tens of thousands of tents and other basic shelters in the Dadaab area have been hosting refugees since 1991 (Agier, 2002; Finch, 2015; UNHCR, 2021d).…”

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“…223; Menjivar, 2006). From texts aiming to reproduce images of this reality (see, e.g., Angulo‐Pasel, 2019; Bauman, 2002; BBC, 2020; Fazel et al, 2005; Finch, 2015; Ramsay, 2020; Horst & Grabska, 2015; UNHCR, 2021a), it can be interpreted that the asylum process produces a survival system encompassing a relatively large population of socially heterogeneous individuals (Agier, 2002, pp. 322).…”

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A stage of limbo: A meta‐synthesis of refugees' liminality

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The asylum regime encloses tens of millions of applicants for international protection in camps and different types of reception centres, to wait even decades for their cases to be resolved. Simultaneously both within and outside the nation state, asylum seekers and refugees occupy a social space outside the natural order of things, a stage of limbo. By incorporating the classical anthropological concepts of limbo and liminality to the methodological possibilities of meta-ethnography, we conducted to our knowledge the first meta-synthesis of 17 scientific peer-reviewed articles with the aims of defining what constitutes the concept of a stage of limbo and investigating refugees' and asylum seekers' agency as they cope when navigating in it. By dissecting detailed descriptions of forced migrants' experiences of liminality, our synthesis identified four key concepts involved in negotiations of agency in a stage of limbo: process of eligibility, spatial-temporal inconsistency, ontological insecurity and actions.

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“…While immediate assistance for these refugees to ensure their health and safety remains a priority, integration has moved up the agenda of governments because of the high current number of refugees and the long durations before refugees can return home. As we witness stories about refugees, who have lived in camps for decades, about children who were born and raised in camps and are now in their teenage years, still living in temporary tents, it is painfully obvious that social integration as well as integration into the destination country's economy was lacking (Finch, 2015). The two reasons are relevant for both the refugees and also the host countries, because long term humanitarian aid is costly and integration policies are crucial to helping refugees become part of the destination country's economy, community and life.…”

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Can Entrepreneurship Enable Economic and Social Integration of Refugees? A Comparison of the Economic, Social and Policy Context for Refugee Entrepreneurship in the UK and Germany

Schmich¹,

Mitra

2023

Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Emerging Economie

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This article examines critically the support systems necessary for economic integration of refugees by analysing the economic, social and policy context of refugee entrepreneurship in Germany and the UK. Current economic integration policies in both countries focus primarily on assisting refugees to find employment while appearing to neglect the value of refugee entrepreneurship as a viable option for integrating refugees into the destination country’s economy. Assuming economic integration of refugees is a fundamental socio-economic goal in both countries, our aim was to examine the challenges that could be addressed with regard to future policies for targeting refugee entrepreneurship and augmenting both entrepreneurship development and entrepreneurial policy formulation in host societies. We introduce a theoretical framework building on Wauters and Lambrecht (2008 , Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 34(6), 895–915) and use inductive thematic analysis ( Guest et al., 2013 , Collecting qualitative data: A field manual for applied research) to examine which variables impact refugees. We identify how regulations, measures and policies in different environments affect those variables. We also examine the concept of mixed embeddedness ( Kloosterman et al., 1999 , International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 23(2), 252–266), and its appropriateness for understanding the emergent entrepreneurial activity of refugees and the support systems that can aid opportunity-based integration. Our findings show that first, the most common challenges refugee entrepreneurs encounter are (a) seed capital, (b) language barriers, (c) location, (d) embeddedness and (e) knowledge about the local market. Second, there are no significant differences in the challenges that refugee entrepreneurs encounter, between the UK and Germany. Third, we also find that the support system for refugee entrepreneurs is larger in Germany than in the UK due to the capacity of government and civil society support. We conclude that combating downward occupational mobility, and fully using the potential and expertise of refugees, refugee entrepreneurship could be considered as a viable option for economic integration because refugee communities offer unique opportunities for potentially expanding the scope and style of entrepreneurship in host countries.

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“…As humanitarian crises grow around the world and new humanitarian crises appear in South Asia, the Americas, Africa, and Europe, so do the camps that are sometimes home to displaced individuals for decades. [3][4][5] In many camps across the globe, there are multiple generations who have been born, and spent their entire lives in, camps. The populations of these camps are neither fixed nor static, which can strongly influence epidemiological dynamics.…”

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Analyzing health of forcibly displaced communities through an integrated ecological lens

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Ching²,

Lamb³

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Healthcare among forcibly displaced persons is frequently driven by siloed approaches. Aspects of the built environment, social factors, and the bi-directional relationship between the changing ecosystem and residents are often ignored in health policy design and implementation. While recognizing factors that create a preference for siloed approaches and appreciating the work of humanitarian agencies, we argue for a new data-driven and holistic approach to understand the health of the forcibly displaced. It should be rooted in the realities of the emergence of new diseases, dynamic demographics, and degrading environments around the displaced communities. Such an approach envisions refugee and internally displaced camps as dynamic and complex ecosystems that alter, and are altered by, spatial and temporal factors. At the root of this approach is the necessity to work across disciplines, to think holistically, to go beyond treating single ailments, and to develop ethical approaches that provide dignity to those who are forcibly displaced.

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In limbo in world’s oldest refugee camps: Where 10 million people can spend years, or even decades

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A stage of limbo: A meta‐synthesis of refugees' liminality

A stage of limbo: A meta‐synthesis of refugees' liminality

Can Entrepreneurship Enable Economic and Social Integration of Refugees? A Comparison of the Economic, Social and Policy Context for Refugee Entrepreneurship in the UK and Germany

Analyzing health of forcibly displaced communities through an integrated ecological lens

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