The Refugee System

A Sociological Approach
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-1-5095-4279-6
Verlag: Polity Press

Buch, Englisch, 272 Seiten, Format (B × H): 149 mm x 228 mm, Gewicht: 498 g

Some people facing violence and persecution flee. Others stay. How do households in danger decide who should go, where to relocate, and whether to keep moving? What are the conditions in countries of origin, transit, and reception that shape people's options?

This incisive book tells the story of how one Syrian family, spread across several countries, tried to survive the civil war and live in dignity. This story forms a backdrop to explore and explain the refugee system. Departing from studies that create siloes of knowledge about just one setting or ""solution"" to displacement, the book's sociological approach describes a global system that shapes refugee movements. Changes in one part of the system reverberate elsewhere. Feedback mechanisms change processes across time and place. Earlier migrations shape later movements. Immobility on one path redirects migration along others. Past policies, laws, population movements, and regional responses all contribute to shape states’ responses in the present. As Arar and FitzGerald illustrate, all these processes are forged by deep inequalities of economic, political, military, and ideological power.

Presenting a sharp analysis of refugee structures worldwide, this book offers invaluable insights for students and scholars of international migration and refugee studies across the social sciences, as well as policy makers and those involved in refugee and asylum work.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Arar, Rawan

Fitzgerald, David Scott

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Politische Soziologie und Psychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Politische Soziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Demographie, Demoskopie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Abbreviations
1.    A systems approach to displacement
2.    Who is a refugee?
3.    Making a legal refugee regime
4.    Should I stay or go?
5.    Exit
6.    Hosting in the many Global Souths
7.    Powerful hosts
8.    Transnational connections and homeland ties
9.    Conclusion
References
Acknowledgements

Über Autor(innen)

Rawan Arar is Assistant Professor in the Department of Law, Societies, and Justice at the University of Washington.
David Scott FitzGerald is Professor of Sociology and Co-Director of the Center for Comparative Immigration Studies at the University of California San Diego.