Refugees and the Transformation of Societies

Agency, Policies, Ethics and Politics

AvPhilomena Essed,Georg Frerks

Häftad, Engelska, 2005

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Beskrivning

The refusal or reception of refugees has had serious implications for the social policies and social realities of numerous countries in east and west. Exploring experiences, interpretations and practices of 'refugees,' 'the internally displaced' and 'returnees' in or emerging from societies in violent conflict, this volume challenges prevailing orthodoxies and encourages new developments in refugee studies. It also addresses the ethics and politics of interventions by professionals and policy makers, using case studies of refugees from or in South Asia, the Middle East, North Africa, Europe and the Americas. These illustrate the dynamic nature of situations where refugees, policy- makers and practitioners interact in trying to construct new livelihoods in transforming societies.Without a proper understanding of this dynamic nature, so the volume argues overall, it is not possible to develop successful strategies for the accommodation and integration of refugees.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2005-04-01
Mått:152 x 229 x 14 mm
Vikt:354 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Forced Migration
Antal sidor:248
Förlag:Berghahn Books
ISBN:9781845450335

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Antropologi inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Philomena Essed is Senior Researcher, University of Amsterdam and Visiting Professor of Women's Studies, University of California, Irvine.

Innehållsförteckning

AcknowledgementsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction: Refugees, Agency and Social TransformationPhilomena Essed, Georg Frerks and Joke SchrijversPART I: 'REFUGEEHOOD': CLAIMING SPACES AND RESPONSIBILITIESChapter 1. Refugeehood, Loss and Social Change: Eritrean Refugees and ReturneesGaim KibreabChapter 2. Repatriation: Angolan Refugees or Migrating Villagers?Oliver BakewellChapter 3. Space and Movement in the Sri Lankan ConflictOivind FuglerudChapter 4. Contested Refugee Status: Human Rights, Ethics and Social ResponsibilitiesPhilomena Essed and Rianne WesenbeekPART II: REDEFINING IDENTITIES AND SOCIAL RELATIONSHIPSChapter 5. A Life Project out of Turmoil: Displacement and Gender in ColombiaDonny MeertensChapter 6. Permanent Refugees: Female Camp Inhabitants in BiharKathinka Sinha-KerkhoffChapter 7. New Opportunities: Angry Young Men in a Tanzanian Refugee CampSimon TurnerChapter 8. Identities and the Sense of Belonging: Iranian Women Activists in ExileHalleh GhorashiPART III: DISCOURAGING POLICIES; EMPOWERING AGENCYChapter 9. A Community Empowered? The Bosnia Project in the U.K.Lynnette KellyChapter 10. Refugee-generated Return: the Case of GuatemalaAnita Rapone and Charles SimpsonChapter 11. Between Victim and Agent: Women’s Ambivalent Empowerment in DisplacementDarini Rajasingham-SenanayakePART IV: CHALLENGING DICHOTOMIES: RELIEF VERSUS DEVELOPMENTChapter 12. Refugees between Relief and DevelopmentGeorg FrerksChapter 13. Rethinking the Relation between Relief and Development: ‘Villagisation’ in RwandaDorothea Hilhorst and Mathijs van LeeuwenChapter 14. Dilemmas of Humanitarian Aid: Supporting Internal Refugees in Sri LankaJoke SchrijversBibliographyNotes on ContributorsIndex