Refugee Resettlement

Power, Politics, and Humanitarian Governance
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-78533-969-1
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 38, 330 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 480 g

Reihe: Forced Migration

Examining resettlement practices worldwide and drawing on contributions from anthropology, law, international relations, social work, political science, and numerous other disciplines, this ground-breaking volume highlights the conflicts between refugees’ needs and state practices, and assesses international, regional and national perspectives on resettlement, as well as the bureaucracies and ideologies involved. It offers a detailed understanding of resettlement, from the selection of refugees to their long-term integration in resettling states, and highlights the relevance of a lifespan approach to resettlement analysis.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Garnier, Adèle

Jubilut, Liliana Lyra

Sandvik, Kristin Bergtora

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Politische Ethnologie, Recht, Organisation, Identität
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Migrations- & Minderheitenpolitik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Abbreviations

Introduction: Refugee Resettlement as Humanitarian Governance: Power Dynamics

Adèle Garnier, Kristin Bergtora Sandvik, and Liliana Lyra Jubilut

PART I: REFUGEE RESETTLEMENT IN INTERNATIONAL AND REGIONAL PERSPECTIVE

Chapter 1. Strategic Use of Resettlement: Enhancing Solutions for Greater Protection?

Joanne van Selm

Chapter 2. A Legal History: The Emergence of the African Resettlement Candidate in International Refugee Management    

Kristin Bergtora Sandvik

Chapter 3. Brazil’s Refugee Resettlement: Power, Humanitarianism and Regional Leadership

Liliana Lyra Jubilut and Andrea Cristina Godoy Zamur

PART II: NATIONAL POLICIES AND IDEOLOGIES OF REFUGEE RESETTLEMENT

Chapter 4. Working It Out in Practice: Tensions Embedded in the U.S. Refugee Resettlement Program Resolved through Implementation

Jessica H. Darrow

Chapter 5. Resettled Refugees and Work in Canada and Quebec: Humanitarianism and the Challenge of Mainstream Socioeconomic Participation

Adèle Garnier

Chapter 6. The Structural and Institutional Exclusion of Refugees in Australia

Ibolya Losoncz

Chapter 7. Shaping the Political Space for Resettlement: The Debate on Burden Sharing in Norway Following the Syrian Refugee Crisis

Linn Marie Reklev and Maria Gabrielsen Jumbert

PART III: RESETTLEMENT BUREAUCRACIES AND RESETTLED REFUGEES IN LOCAL CONTEXTS

Chapter 8. Parallel Pasts, Presents, and Futures: Narratives of Cambodian and Karen Refugees in the United States

Denise C. Lewis and Savannah S. Young

Chapter 9. “Giving Cases Weight”: Congolese Refugees’ Tactics for Resettlement Selection

Marnie Jane Thomson

Chapter 10. The Politics of Resettlement: Expectations and Unfulfilled Promises in Chile and Brazil

Marcia A. Vera Espinoza

Conclusion: The Moral Economy of the Resettlement Regime

Astri Suhrke and Adèle Garnier

Annex: Current Refugee Resettlement Program Profiles

Amanda Cellini

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Sandvik, Kristin Bergtora
Kristin Bergtora Sandvik is a Research Professor in Humanitarian Studies at PRIO and a Professor at the Faculty of Law at the University of Oslo. Her work has appeared in Polar: Political and Legal Anthropology Review, Refugee Survey Quarterly, the International Journal of Refugee Law, Disasters, the ICRC Review, Third World Quarterly, and the Law and Society Review.

Jubilut, Liliana Lyra
Liliana Lyra Jubilut holds a PhD in International Law from Universidade de São Paulo, and an LLM in International Legal Studies from NYU School of Law. Currently, she is Professor of the Postgraduate Programme in Law at Universidade Católica de Santos and a Member of the IOM Migration Research Leaders Syndicate. She has been working with refugees’ issues since 1999.

Garnier, Adèle
Adèle Garnier is a lecturer at the Department of Modern History, Politics and International Relations, Macquarie University, Australia. She has held research positions at the Interuniversity Research Centre for Globalization and Work (CRIMT), Université de Montréal, Canada and the Group for Research on Migration, Ethnic Relations and Equality (GERME), Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium. She has published in Refuge, the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies and WeltTrends.

Adèle Garnier is a lecturer at the Department of Modern History, Politics and International Relations, Macquarie University, Australia. She has held research positions at the Interuniversity Research Centre for Globalization and Work (CRIMT), Université de Montréal, Canada and the Group for Research on Migration, Ethnic Relations and Equality (GERME), Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium. She has published in Refuge, the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies and WeltTrends.