Wither Policy? Southern African Perspectives on Understanding Law, 'Refugee' Policy and Protection

Landau, Loren B.; Amit, Roni

doi:10.1093/jrs/feu005

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“…Existing global refugee policy envisages refugees' belonging and their long-term futures as inherently attached to, and bounded within, nation-states and their physical borders (United Nations 2018;Dryden-Peterson et al 2019). However, socio-anthropological research on refugees' experiences in host countries decenters nation-state-based and legal categorizations of refugees in its illumination of multiple forms of refugee belonging that exist, despite, or in addition to, persistent legal-and policy-based tropes (Hovil 2016;Landau and Amit 2014;Kuch 2017). These works identify numerous ways in which refugees subvert formal conceptualizations of nationality and legal citizenship or the lack thereof, to locate less recognized belonging within sub-national, local communities.…”

Section: Borders and Belonging: Syrian Youth's Experiences Of Displacmentioning

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Borders and belonging: displaced Syrian youth navigating symbolic boundaries in Lebanon

Chopra

Dryden‐Peterson

2020

Globalisation, Societies and Education

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We examine the ways in which young Syrian refugees perceive and navigate the symbolic boundaries of belonging when displaced in Lebanon. Using portraiture, we identify three dimensions of belonging for refugees-safety, dignity, and relationships-and we explore the role of education in cultivating each one. We find that educational spaces, such as formal school and informal volunteering experiences, are places where refugee young people are at times able to blur bright boundaries of belonging. We also find that this belonging is tenuous and serves to reinforce boundaries of citizenship, rights, and everyday practices that exclude refugee young people. Our findings emphasize the need for the field of refugee education to address the question of how schools can actively resist and counter state-established bright boundaries of belonging to instead serve as spaces that blur and redefine those boundaries.

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Section: Borders and Belonging: Syrian Youth's Experiences Of Displacmentioning

confidence: 99%

Borders and belonging: displaced Syrian youth navigating symbolic boundaries in Lebanon

Chopra

Dryden‐Peterson

2020

Globalisation, Societies and Education

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“…Refugee politics is often 'local' politics; regional, district, and municipal authorities are often key gatekeepers (Landau and Amit 2014). Whether they perceive refugees as an opportunity or a threat shapes not only local policies but also the creation and implementation of national (and international) policies.…”

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What Difference do Mayors Make? The Role of Municipal Authorities in Turkey and Lebanon’s Response to Syrian Refugees

Betts¹,

Memişoğlu

Ali

2020

Journal of Refugee Studies

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With the majority of refugees now in urban areas, mayors and municipal authorities have been recognized as increasingly important policy actors in the global refugee regime. This trend is acknowledged in the policy literature. However, there has been little systematic academic research exploring the conditions under which mayors make a difference to refugee-policy outcomes. Theoretically, we outline a heuristic framework aimed at disaggregating key variables, including the independent influence of mayors, in shaping municipal-level outcomes. Empirically, the article assesses the role of municipal authorities and mayors in the two most numerically significant host countries for Syrian refugees: Turkey and Lebanon. It comparatively examines variation across six metropolitan municipalities, three from each country: Izmir, Adana and Gaziantep (Turkey), and Qalamoun, Anjar and Zahle (Lebanon). We show that mayors matter because they may mediate the implementation of national policies and because they sometimes adopt supplementary refugee policies and practices at the municipal level, which may be more or less proactive or more or less restrictive than central-government policy.

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“…63 In the example of urban refugees in South Africa, Landau and Amit illustrate the role of wider domestic policy spheres in creating protection gaps such as poverty alleviation, housing, public health, and development. 64 Milner describes how efforts to implement a global policy on solutions for protracted refugee situations in Tanzania were constrained by changes in the domestic context of Tanzanian politics. 65 Likewise, Wojnarowicz's case study of the town of Gioiosa-Ionica, Italy, highlights how local organizations who have been outsourced to implement protection hold discretionary authority to develop new practices that contest protection and condition its provision on the acquiescence of refugees.…”

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Power in the Global Refugee Regime: Understanding Expressions and Experiences of Power in Global and Local Contexts

Milner¹,

Wojnarowicz

2017

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Since the late 1980s, scholars have highlighted the role of diverse conceptualizations of power in explaining the functioning of the global refugee regime. Part of this literature has examined the functioning of power in global contexts, while another part has explored expressions and experiences of power in local contexts. While these approaches illustrate how power may be expressed and experienced in the diverse contexts of the regime, can we conceptualize power in a way that engages with the functioning of the refugee regime in both global and local contexts? Can a more disaggregated understanding of power, sensitive to form and context of expression, open new areas of enquiry into the functioning of the regime and help explain its ability and inability to fulfill its core mandate of protection and solutions for refugees? In response, this article draws on the literature on power in global governance to propose a heuristic framework for understanding power and influence in the diverse context of the global refugee regime. It argues that various forms of power co-exist within the regime, and that further research could usefully examine the manifestations and implications of these forms of power through the making and implementation of global refugee policy.

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Wither Policy? Southern African Perspectives on Understanding Law, 'Refugee' Policy and Protection

Cited by 30 publications

References 8 publications

Borders and belonging: displaced Syrian youth navigating symbolic boundaries in Lebanon

Borders and belonging: displaced Syrian youth navigating symbolic boundaries in Lebanon

What Difference do Mayors Make? The Role of Municipal Authorities in Turkey and Lebanon’s Response to Syrian Refugees

Power in the Global Refugee Regime: Understanding Expressions and Experiences of Power in Global and Local Contexts

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