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The 2021 UNHCR-IE SOGI Global Roundtable on Protection and Solutions for LGBTIQ+ People in Forced Displacement: Toward a New Vision for LGBTIQ+ Refugee Protection Journal of Refugee Studies (IF 2.966) Pub Date : 2024-04-18 Eirene Chen
This field reflection critically examines how emerging international norms concerning forcibly displaced people of diverse sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, and sex characteristics (SOGIESC) were negotiated during the 2021 UNHCR-IE SOGI Global Roundtable on Protection and Solutions for LGBTIQ+ People in Forced Displacement. I argue that the Roundtable was a crucial site of norm
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Reflections on arts-based research methods in refugee mental health: The role of creative exercises in nurturing positive coping with trauma and exile Journal of Refugee Studies (IF 2.966) Pub Date : 2024-04-14 Sofie de Smet, Caroline Spaas, Signe Smith Jervelund, Morten Skovdal, Lucia De Haene
In the field of refugee mental health research, scholars have emphasized the ethical obligation for research practices to benefit participants. They have proposed that research participation itself can promote positive coping in the aftermath of migration. In this article, we aim to advance the understanding of the benefits of arts-based research methods (ABRM) in how they may nurture participants’
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Not idle: The gymnastics of refugee activism in—and out of—the aid apparatus Journal of Refugee Studies (IF 2.966) Pub Date : 2024-04-10 Marnie Jane Thomson
‘Are refugees idle?’ This was a common question I received from UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) representatives when I was conducting research at their global headquarters in Geneva. Refugees are not idle, even in camps with a heavy aid presence like Nyarugusu camp in Tanzania. Refugees engage in various kinds of labour, including activism. Based on more than two years of ethnographic research in Nyarugusu
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How do perceptions, fears, and experiences of violence and conflict affect considerations of moving internally and internationally? Journal of Refugee Studies (IF 2.966) Pub Date : 2024-04-09 Jessica Hagen-Zanker, Marcela G Rubio, Marta Bivand Erdal
This article draws on cross-country survey and qualitative data for local areas within Afghanistan, Ethiopia, Nigeria, and Somalia to explore how perceptions, fears, and experiences of violence affect how young adults consider whether or not to move, internally, within their own countries, or internationally. We shed new light on how different forms and intensities of violence and conflict, ranging
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Child marriage and displacement: A qualitative study of displaced and host populations in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq Journal of Refugee Studies (IF 2.966) Pub Date : 2024-04-03 Kara Hunersen, Allison Jeffery, Luqman S Karim, Katherine Gambir, Janna Metzler, Ali Zedan, W Courtland Robinson
Though displaced populations face exacerbated challenges that are associated with increased rates of child marriage, little research has elucidated the reasons behind such phenomena. The present study qualitatively explores the drivers and consequences of child marriage among Syrian refugee, Iraqi internally displaced, and host communities in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. Specifically, it explores
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Refugee livelihood perspectives: post-traumatic growth in histories of Vietnamese, Bosnian, and Tamil Refugees in Australia Journal of Refugee Studies (IF 2.966) Pub Date : 2024-03-29 Sarah Green, Anh Nguyen Austen, Niro Kandasamy
Refugee livelihood studies have mostly focused on policy and international aid programming and have yet to explore refugee people’s long-term development beyond the initial resettlement period. This article examines the experiences of Vietnamese, Bosnian, and Tamil refugees resettled in Australia during the height of the multicultural agenda in the 1980s and 1990s. Drawing on fifty oral histories,
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The EU’s normative justifications of refugee resettlement Journal of Refugee Studies (IF 2.966) Pub Date : 2024-03-28 Natalie Welfens
The UNHCR promotes resettlement as an important protection tool to express solidarity with vulnerable refugees and countries of refuge. Yet, as resettlement is discretionary, its guiding principles and objectives are not binding and can be reinterpreted by states and supranational organizations. Against the background of UNHCR’s resettlement guidelines, this article examines the EU’s justifications
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Adaptive religious coping with experiences of sexual and gender-based violence and displacement Journal of Refugee Studies (IF 2.966) Pub Date : 2024-03-27 Sandra Pertek
This article examines the religious coping strategies among forced migrant women survivors of sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV). While it is acknowledged that faith and religion help people to survive crises, the patterns of religious coping with SGBV and displacement are little understood. I explore how displaced women use their faith and religious resources to cope with SGBV and migration-related
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Building an ethical research culture: Scholars of refugee background researching refugee-related issues Journal of Refugee Studies (IF 2.966) Pub Date : 2024-03-25 Ahmad Albtran, Pinar Aksu, Zuhair Al-Fakir, Heidar Al-Hashimi, Helen Baillot, Azad Izzeddin, Hyab Johannes, Steve Kirkwood, Bulelani Mfaco, Tandy Nicole, Muireann Ní Raghallaigh, Gordon Ogutu, Zoë O’Reilly, Angham Younes
Recent scholarship on the need to decolonize refugee research, and migration research more generally, points to the urgency of challenging ongoing colonial power structures inherent in such research. Increased involvement of scholars with lived experience is one way to challenge and remake unequal and colonial power relations. Through discussions with researchers of forced migration, we aimed to explore
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Three approaches to the 1951 convention: The case for a dialectical approach Journal of Refugee Studies (IF 2.966) Pub Date : 2024-03-25 B S Chimni
This article explores three different methodological approaches to the UN 1951 Convention on the Status of Refugees—and international refugee law (IRL) more broadly. These are termed the internal, external and dialectical approaches. It is argued that the dialectical approach, which combines elements of the internal and external approaches using a materialist postcolonial perspective helps make out
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TWAIL, archives, and refugee law Journal of Refugee Studies (IF 2.966) Pub Date : 2024-03-23 Jay Ramasubramanyam
Critical scholars of refugee law and refugee studies have demonstrated the entrenched Eurocentricity and the ingrained hegemony that dominate the fields of study. Therefore, this article embarks on a methodological inquiry that intersperses Third-World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL) and archival research to the study of international refugee law, with specific focus on India. I base this article
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‘There seems to be some disparity then between our Syrian and Iraqi refugee children who seemed to have everything’: Constructing ‘good refugees’ and the ensuing equity issues in Australian schools Journal of Refugee Studies (IF 2.966) Pub Date : 2024-03-19 Carol Reid, Zainab Mourad
Australia took double the normal intake of refugees over 2015–17. On top of the usual humanitarian intake were refugees specifically from Syria and Iraq who were mostly Christian and were settled in metropolitan and regional NSW, Queensland, and Victoria. This article explores the responses of teachers in some of the schools where this cohort was settled. Using Critical Discourse Analysis, it argues
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Humanitarian hacking: Merging refugee aid and digital capitalism Journal of Refugee Studies (IF 2.966) Pub Date : 2024-03-19 Sofie Elbæk Henriksen
Hackathons have become popular for helping refugees, among NGOs, volunteers, and corporations but their material impact has been limited. This article explores two Techfugees hackathons in Copenhagen organized with support from Google. The article conceptualizes humanitarian hacking as a space where refugee aid meets digital capitalism by examining the practices of ‘hacking the refugee crisis’ within
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How Rohingya refugee parents support children’s prosocial development in crisis-affected and resettlement contexts: Findings from India and Canada Journal of Refugee Studies (IF 2.966) Pub Date : 2024-03-15 Nora Didkowsky, John Corbit, Vikas Gora, Harini Reddy, Saifullah Muhammad, Tara Callaghan
We know little about how parents protect and promote children’s prosocial development during humanitarian crises. This qualitative study examined Rohingya refugee parents’ psychosocial perspectives and the processes they use to socialize prosocial values and behaviours in their children. Interviews (descriptive and in-depth qualitative) were conducted with 100 parents living in a refugee settlement
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En route to decoloniality—a different light on Northern research on urban refugees in Southern contexts: a case from Jordan Journal of Refugee Studies (IF 2.966) Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Hala Ghanem
This article examines opposing viewpoints on Northern research interventions in Southern cities regarding urban refugees. While some argue for a complete boycott of Northern interventions, others perpetuate colonial attitudes of patronization. Engaging with decolonial perspectives, this article aims to bridge the gap between current practices and a desired decolonial future in refugee studies. By reflecting
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The Borders of Migrant and Refugee Activism in South Africa Journal of Refugee Studies (IF 2.966) Pub Date : 2024-01-23 Kudakwashe Vanyoro
This article examines the relationship between the activities of civil society organizations (CSOs) on migration and refugee issues with state-making processes and discourses in South Africa, based upon key informant interviews, discourse analysis, and ethnographic research. It argues that this relationship brings attention to the defining and reinforcement of national borders set against the backdrop
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Self-selection of Ukrainian refugees and displaced persons in Europe Journal of Refugee Studies (IF 2.966) Pub Date : 2023-12-07 Frank van Tubergen, Irena Kogan, Yuliya Kosyakova, Steffen Pötzschke
The literature on migrants’ self-selection is focused on labour migrants, while little is known about refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs). We contribute to this scant literature, by (1) examining a broad set of factors that could determine self-selection, (2) contrasting self-selection profiles of refugees and IDPs, and (3) comparing self-selection profiles of refugees across countries
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On Becoming an Artist Anew: Refugees’ Arrival in the Field of Cultural Production in Austria Journal of Refugee Studies (IF 2.966) Pub Date : 2023-11-08 Michael Parzer
This article focuses on how artists who had to flee Syria between 2011 and 2016 have restarted their artistic careers in Austria. Pries’ concept of arrival and Lamont’s symbolic boundary approach offer an analytical framework for examining the process of becoming an artist anew. By drawing on data collected from a 4-year ethnography in various fields of cultural production in Vienna, this article sheds
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Navigating Asylum, Resettlement, and Integration: Syrian Refugees in France Beyond the Suffering Slot Journal of Refugee Studies (IF 2.966) Pub Date : 2023-11-07 Katherine Maddox
This article addresses the way that humanitarian conditioning continues in the lives of refugees after receiving asylum in Europe while also highlighting the perspective of refugees as they experience official and informal processes of integration. The ways the rhetoric of suffering must be invoked at various times throughout the asylum process are well documented. Less attention, however, has been
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‘I Did Not Choose to Be in Your Country’: Social-Racial Hierarchies in Peru and Venezuelan Migrant Women’s Responses Journal of Refugee Studies (IF 2.966) Pub Date : 2023-10-24 Leda M Pérez
Drawing on 72 interviews with Venezuelan migrant women across five Peruvian cities between 2018 and 2020, this article discusses the prevailing intersectional discriminations they have experienced. I also explore their resistance to social marginalizations that position them along a social-racial hierarchy based on xenophobia, sexism, and racialization. My research has found that their responses to
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Displacement in Place and the Financial Crisis in Lebanon Journal of Refugee Studies (IF 2.966) Pub Date : 2023-10-24 Ali Ali
Displacement is underway in Lebanon after financial collapse, but not as events of migration, rather, as processual disruption to people’s lives that begins in place, preceding the potential outcome of forced migration. Financial collapse has shifted the population into extremes of constraint, dispossessing them of assets needed to live in valued ways. Widely circulated claims of an exodus are premature
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Shifting Paradigms, Not Identities: LGBTIQ+ Refugees Queering Temporalities in Denmark Journal of Refugee Studies (IF 2.966) Pub Date : 2023-10-16 Rieke Schröder
In light of tightening immigration policies, LGBTIQ+ refugees are oftentimes presented as ‘stuck’ in the asylum regime, having to continuously perform their sexual orientation, gender identity, and/or expression (SOGIE) in a fixed way. This article rethinks this narrative, arguing that rather than being stuck, LGBTIQ+ refugees are navigating through spatialized temporalities—during and after their
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Working with Afghan Evacuees: Field Reflections on Five Useful Supervision Questions for Crisis Intervention Workers Journal of Refugee Studies (IF 2.966) Pub Date : 2023-10-16 Jai Shree Adhyaru, Ankita Guchait
This field reflection is a reflective dialogue between a supervisor and supervisee focusing on work with Afghan evacuees undertaken by the Centre for Anxiety, Stress & Trauma within Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust. This field reflection focuses on five themes that emerged between the supervisor and supervisee during clinical supervision. The themes are posed as questions that may
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Later Is a Cis-Hetero Patriarchal Time Zone: Narratives of Resistance to LGBTQI+ Inclusion amongst Humanitarian Practitioners Journal of Refugee Studies (IF 2.966) Pub Date : 2023-10-12 Ilaria Michelis
The plight of forcibly displaced LGBTQI+ people has become increasingly visible in Western media and scholarship within the past 10 years. Yet, despite increasing commitments and an expanding number of dedicated reports and initiatives, LGBTQI+ individuals remain discriminated against, exposed to violence, and excluded from humanitarian assistance. This article investigates the disconnect between global
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Refugee Journalism in Indonesia: Self-Representation, Resistance, and Writing across Borders Journal of Refugee Studies (IF 2.966) Pub Date : 2023-10-10 Antje Missbach, J N Joniad, Yunizar Adiputera
By presenting the political engagements of a young refugee from Myanmar who was stuck in Indonesia for nine years, this article discusses the role, value, and importance of refugee writing. Refugees are prohibited from working in Indonesia. Any form of income-generation can result in serious pitfalls, including detention and other punishments. Writing—for international newspapers, blogs, and journals—presents
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The Convent Camp: Sacred Places in Palestinian Refugee History Journal of Refugee Studies (IF 2.966) Pub Date : 2023-10-07 Clayton Goodgame
In 1948, thousands of Palestinians fled to the Old City of Jerusalem, where many Orthodox Christians were housed by the Patriarchate of Jerusalem. This article asks how Jerusalem refugee histories change when we consider the patriarchate’s characteristics as an informal camp. The religious dimensions of camps are often overlooked, and the article suggests that recognizing them affords a better understanding
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Chronicles of Disappearance: Palestinian Encampment in the Bekaa Valley (1948–1951) Journal of Refugee Studies (IF 2.966) Pub Date : 2023-09-25 Cynthia Kreichati
Some formal UN camps in Lebanon are becoming ‘over-researched’ while ‘gatherings’ remain unexplored despite their distinctive features. This article is a historical ethnography of encampment defined as the iterative undertaking of settling in while in exile. It contends that any history of Palestinian encampment must attend to entwined histories of presence, dispersal, and absence. Based on interviews
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Do Work Permits Work? The Impacts of Formal Labor Market Integration of Syrian Refugees in Jordan Journal of Refugee Studies (IF 2.966) Pub Date : 2023-09-17 Laura Peitz, Ghassan Baliki, Neil T N Ferguson, Tilman Brück
The integration of refugees into host countries’ formal labor markets is increasingly recommended as a durable solution to forced migration. Yet, this policy response is a contentious political topic with little empirical evidence, especially in low- and middle-income host countries available to support policy. This article examines the impacts of integrating Syrian refugees into Jordan’s formal labor
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‘The Decision to Return to Syria Is Not in My Hands’: Syria’s Repatriation Regime as Illiberal Statebuilding Journal of Refugee Studies (IF 2.966) Pub Date : 2023-09-17 Samer Abboud
Many Syrian refugees are being forcibly repatriated under the guise of the war’s end, while other refugees are returning to Syria voluntarily. Drawing on an interview study with displaced Syrians, and an analysis of conflict-era policy and legal changes, I show how the Syrian government’s repatriation regime has been constructed outside of international norms and practices. An absentee must apply to
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Standard Involvement Is Not Enough: A Mixed Method Study of Enablers and Barriers in Research Meetings with Forced Migrants Journal of Refugee Studies (IF 2.966) Pub Date : 2023-09-06 Elin Inge, Anna Sarkadi, Antónia Tökés, Georgina Warner
Although participatory approaches in health research are increasingly used, critical voices are being raised around lack of diversity among the public contributors involved. This article explores enabling and hindering factors in participatory meetings with forced migrants involved as public contributors in health research, using a convergent parallel mixed methods design including behavioural observations
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Sayed’s Journey to Encampment: Examining Sites and Scenes of Economic Migrant Displacement in Mandate Palestine Journal of Refugee Studies (IF 2.966) Pub Date : 2023-09-04 Lauren Banko
Using the framework of microhistory, the following article explores the notion of ‘encampment’ in relation to economically displaced labourers who crossed into Palestine in the 1930s and 1940s. It considers what a new reading of ‘encampment’ might offer to the historical and inter-disciplinary studies of refugeehood, migration, borders, and forced displacement. The article traces the story of one such
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Methods for the Future, Futures for Methods: Collaborating with Syrian Refugee Youth in Jordan Journal of Refugee Studies (IF 2.966) Pub Date : 2023-08-31 Birgitte Stampe Holst, Andreas Bandak, Anders Hastrup, Tareq al-Dilaijim
What happens with data when the research process radically involves and engages those who are in the target group? How can we move towards collaborative insights by integrating our participants in the design of research, conduct of work, and, ultimately, its writing and dissemination? And how does this enable us to devise better futures when imagining such futures may be the very problem? Based on
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Undocumented Bordering Practices: Protagonism and Spaces of Making Journal of Refugee Studies (IF 2.966) Pub Date : 2023-08-31 Linn Biorklund
Borders are at the centre of everyday lives, often with gendered and violent outcomes exacerbating harm across space and time. The feminization of waiting is embedded in the power structures of borders. Yet, feminized waiting in the context of displacement can also be a necessary pre-condition for generating affective geographies of making, and transformative spaces of solidarity and contestation across
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Many a Slip between Cup and Lip: Navigating Noncitizenship and School-to-Work Transitions in Kakuma Refugee Camp Journal of Refugee Studies (IF 2.966) Pub Date : 2023-08-08 Michelle J Bellino, Rahul Oka, Marcela Ortiz-Guerrero, Deng Mabil Khot, Ali Adan Abdi, Arii Awar Magdalene
This article draws from curricular analysis and ethnographic methods in school and community spaces where young people live, learn, and work in Kenya’s Kakuma Refugee Camp. We describe how formal citizenship education intended for Kenyan citizens is mediated by teachers working in refugee-serving schools. Our analysis shows how these messages, often scarce and decontextualized, orient refugees to project
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Refugee Illegality: Governing Refugees via Rescaling Borders in Turkey Journal of Refugee Studies (IF 2.966) Pub Date : 2023-07-28 Mert Pekşen
In its efforts to control the mobility and whereabouts of its refugee populations, Turkey enforces registration requirements for refugees, tying refugee rights to continuing residency in a particular province. Drawing on the literature on rescaling of borders and illegalization of refugee mobilities, this article argues that the Turkish asylum regime creates internal borders, producing the province
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Psychological Research Evidence in Refugee Status Determination Journal of Refugee Studies (IF 2.966) Pub Date : 2023-07-28 Jane Herlihy, Hilary Evans Cameron, Stuart Turner
This paper presents evidence that refugee status decision makers make assumptions about how humans think and act that are contrary to decades of scientific evidence about human behaviour and cognition (e.g. memory, risk assessment) – including studies and reviews of studies specifically focused on the RSD context. This evidence is not made available to decision makers. In contrast, decision makers
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The Afterlives of Return and the Limits of Refugee Protection Journal of Refugee Studies (IF 2.966) Pub Date : 2023-07-26 Heath Cabot
This article features a long-term refugee in Greece who decided to return to his home country in the face of severe illness. I ask what his illness and treatment in Greece, and ultimately his return to Sudan, reveal about protection regimes: as he sought care, respite from pain, and a good—or at least dignified—death. His return enabled him to be among family again, in once-familiar places, and to
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Towards a Shared Practice of Encampment: An Historical Investigation of UNRWA and the UNHCR to 1967 Journal of Refugee Studies (IF 2.966) Pub Date : 2023-07-26 Laura Robson
This article reconsiders refugee studies’ longstanding commitment to the notion of a near-total separation between the UNHCR and UNRWA through an historical investigation of both organizations’ early approaches to refugee encampment. Without disputing the importance of the historical and institutional divisions between the two, it seeks to point out that with respect to the practice of encampment,
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What Becomes a Refugee Camp? Making Camps for European Refugees in North Africa and the Middle East, 1943–46 Journal of Refugee Studies (IF 2.966) Pub Date : 2023-07-13 Katherine Mackinnon, Benjamin Thomas White
Refugees have often been housed in camps made by ‘adaptive reuse’ of a wide range of existing sites. We argue that any given refugee camp’s previous uses shape the experiences of its residents and may indicate how that displaced population is viewed by the responsible authorities. We test this argument on three historical case studies drawn from an important but under-researched episode in the history
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Capturing the Border in Refugee Solidarity Camp Visits and City Tours in Germany: Theorizing Relationality through the Border as Horizon in Refugee/Migrant Solidarity Activism as Citizenship Politics Journal of Refugee Studies (IF 2.966) Pub Date : 2023-07-13 Kim Rygiel
This article explores the idea of the border as a connective space using the concepts of ‘border’s capture’, ‘borderizations’, and ‘border as horizon’ to highlight ‘practices of relationality’ where borders ‘run the risk of themselves being captured’. This article discusses refugee/migrant solidarity activism as citizenship politics through two examples from Germany across different snapshots in time
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‘My Family Needed Me’: Exploring Caring Dimensions and Care Circulation among Older Venezuelans on the Move in Peru Journal of Refugee Studies (IF 2.966) Pub Date : 2023-07-07 Cécile Blouin, Stéphanie Borios
The humanitarian, political, and socio-economic crisis in Venezuela has generated an unprecedented migration to other South American countries. In the last six years, Peru has become the second receptor of Venezuelan people after Colombia and the first regarding asylum seekers. In this article, we follow recent contributions regarding the concept of care circulation to ask: how the case of older Venezuelans
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From Dadaab Camp to Kismayo City: A Call for Local Evidence to Inform Durable Solutions Journal of Refugee Studies (IF 2.966) Pub Date : 2023-07-07 Charlotte Mohn, Francesco Tonnarelli, Jonathan Weaver, Winston Njuguna, Abdirahman Barkhadle
These field reflections contribute to the discussion on durable solutions to displacement by providing empirical evidence of how intended spillover effects of carefully designed interventions and hybrid settlements can facilitate local integration and return and reintegration. A comparison between Dadaab and Kismayo reveals humanitarian and development aid’s influence and spillover effects on economic
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Constructions of Multiple Deservingness Frames towards Refugees in Everyday Work Life in İzmir Journal of Refugee Studies (IF 2.966) Pub Date : 2023-07-04 Selin Siviş, Ayselin Yıldız
This study focuses on the role of justification astrategies in the production and mobilization of multiple deservingness framings towards refugees in everyday work life. Drawing on in-depth interviews with Turkish employers in labour-intensive sectors in İzmir, the article presents a city-centred, evidence supported case which answers on the basis of which criteria Syrian refugee workers are deemed
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Fragile Solidarities: Contestation and Ambiguity at European Borderzones Journal of Refugee Studies (IF 2.966) Pub Date : 2023-06-30 Pierre Monforte, Elias Steinhilper
Borders as legal, social, and material aspaces of inclusion/exclusion constantly spark resistance, by both migrants and solidarity actors. In this article, we combine the dual observation of a proliferation of border control policies and of migrant and solidarity activism to analyse how different types of border control policies affect the forms of resistance that emerge in them. We inquire on three
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Understanding the Politics of Refugee Law and Policy Making: Interdisciplinary and Empirical Approaches Journal of Refugee Studies (IF 2.966) Pub Date : 2023-06-30 Daniel Ghezelbash, Keyvan Dorostkar
In this article, we argue that building a stronger empirical understanding of the politics of domestic refugee law and policy making is essential for refugee law scholars to better advocate for protection-orientated reforms. While much of the legal scholarship is aimed at promoting policy change, the best way to achieve this goal has rarely been examined. We identify three key areas of interdisciplinary
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From Refugees to Citizens? How Refugee Youth in the Dadaab Camps of Kenya Use Education to Challenge Their Status as Non-Citizens Journal of Refugee Studies (IF 2.966) Pub Date : 2023-06-27 Hassan Aden, Abdirahman Edle, Cindy Horst
The Dadaab camps of Kenya have ‘warehoused’ refugees from Somalia and elsewhere since 1991, providing their inhabitants with little hope to (re)gain the legal rights, participation, and membership that citizenship provides. Refugee youth in Dadaab hope that education can enable their access to citizenship rights—in particular, physical mobility and the right to work. Drawing on ethnographic research
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Importance of Asylum Status, Support Programmes, and Family Unit Functioning on the Mental Health of Syrian Forced Migrants in Switzerland: A Longitudinal Study Journal of Refugee Studies (IF 2.966) Pub Date : 2023-06-14 Joëlle Darwiche, Nahema El Ghaziri, Jérémie Blaser, Dario Spini, Joan-Carles Suris, Jean-Philippe Antonietti, Javier Sanchis Zozaya, Régis Marion-Veyron, Patrick Bodenmann
Due to the Syrian civil war, millions of Syrians have fled the country since 2011. Several issues have inhibited their successful resettlement, but few studies have examined the development of the healthcare needs of Syrian forced migrants in Europe. This study examined Syrian forced migrants’ healthcare needs in Switzerland, and whether migration type and family functioning affect their mental health
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(Non-)deport to Discipline: The Daily Life of Afghans in Turkey Journal of Refugee Studies (IF 2.966) Pub Date : 2023-06-11 Sibel Karadağ, Deniz Ş Sert
This study contributes to discussions on the politics of (non-)deportability by focusing on the case of Afghans, the largest migrant community without a right to protection in Turkey, itself the country hosting the most refugees. This article examines how the politics of (non-)deportation is shaped and practiced for Afghans and the types of everyday strategies they employ to deal with deportability
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Curriculum Choices for Refugees: What UNRWA’s History Can Tell Us about the Potential of UN Education Programs to Address Refugees’ ‘Unknowable Futures’ Journal of Refugee Studies (IF 2.966) Pub Date : 2023-06-11 Jo Kelcey
Quality education can help refugees navigate their ‘unknowable futures’. Yet, the potential of many education programs to fulfil this promise is shaped by the varied and at times, conflicting interests inherent in aid policy and practice. This article explores these tensions through a historical examination of UNRWA’s education program in the wake of the 1967 Arab-Israeli war. I show how an embedded
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Drivers of Loneliness among Older Refugees Journal of Refugee Studies (IF 2.966) Pub Date : 2023-05-25 Vincent Horn, Tineke Fokkema
Although older refugees can be seen as particularly vulnerable to social isolation and loneliness, they are often overlooked by ageing and migration scholars. This article addresses this research gap by identifying and examining potential drivers of loneliness among older refugees. The study analysed data from the first two waves of the IAB-BAMF-SOEP Survey of Refugees, focusing on 958 individuals
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National Inclusion Policy Openings/Barriers for Refugee Teachers: Critical Reflections from Kenya Journal of Refugee Studies (IF 2.966) Pub Date : 2023-05-24 Mary Mendenhall, Danielle Falk
Many refugee teachers toil for years with little support, inadequate working conditions, and unliveable wages, all while facing ‘unknowable futures’ (Dryden-Peterson 2017) about their ability to continue working as teachers. The current push for inclusion of refugees into national education systems has created policy openings for the inclusion of refugee teachers. Drawing on interviews with refugee
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Who Owns the Future of Syrians in Lebanon? Intimate Family Explorations of Refugees’ Own Search for Durable Solutions Journal of Refugee Studies (IF 2.966) Pub Date : 2023-05-20 Maybritt Jill Alpes, Kwamou Eva Feukeu, Marieke van Houte, Shahed Kseibi, Belal Shukair
For both political and ideological reasons, return is the most favoured future imagined for refugees by policy makers and protection actors. This article analyses how humanitarian migrants in a context of limited durable solutions can be supported to reclaim ownership of their futures, as well as how this can result in deeper insights for social scientists and policy makers. For the case of Syrians
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What Kind of Weapon Is Education? Teleological Violence, Local Integration, and Refugee Education in Northern Ethiopia Journal of Refugee Studies (IF 2.966) Pub Date : 2023-05-17 Amanda Poole, Jennifer Riggan
Why does education damage refugees? To understand this, we need to ask how education frames refugees’ thinking about their future, specifically related to questions of waiting in the camp or migrating through dangerous, irregular channels. Between 2016 and 2019, Ethiopia was at the forefront of trends in migration policy that prioritized education as part of a global strategy to prevent irregular,
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‘The Great and Miserable Flight’: The Experiences of Refugees in Newsprint during the Thirty Years’ War Journal of Refugee Studies (IF 2.966) Pub Date : 2023-05-16 Thomas Pert
As the Thirty Years’ War was the greatest demographic crisis in Europe between the Black Death and the two World Wars, it is unsurprising that the conflict created the greatest number of refugees in the continent’s history prior to the twentieth century. However, the limited scholarship on displaced persons between 1618 and 1648 has been exclusively based on micro-level eyewitness accounts, diaries
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Borderland Porosities: Migratory Journeys and Migrant Politics in Lebanon and Turkey Journal of Refugee Studies (IF 2.966) Pub Date : 2023-05-04 Suzan Ilcan, Seçil Dağtaş, Lana Gonzalez Balyk
This article focuses on displaced peoples’ migratory journeys to the borderlands of Lebanon and Turkey. Building on a selection of ethnographic, interview, policy, and programme materials, it advances the argument that Syrian encounters with these borderlands encompass multidirectional movements and context-specific and fluid processes imbricated in relations of power that often stimulate migrant politics
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Contesting the Universality of the Refugee Convention: Decolonization and the Additional Protocol Journal of Refugee Studies (IF 2.966) Pub Date : 2023-04-05 Itty Abraham
Recent scholarship has insightfully explored the colonial roots of the UN Refugee Convention of 1951. In this work I seek to extend this line of argument by situating the adoption of the Additional Protocol of the Refugee Convention (1967) in relation to the transformations of international order following the Second World War. Contra the conventional account, this article shows that the Additional
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Who Can Participate, Where, and How? Connections between Language-in-Education and Social Justice in Policies of Refugee Inclusion Journal of Refugee Studies (IF 2.966) Pub Date : 2023-04-02 Celia Reddick
Amidst growing displacement, global policy is increasingly oriented towards the inclusion of refugees in national education systems in countries of exile. This shift is understood to enable improved education for refugees as well as post-school opportunities but also means that refugee young people must often contend with education in unfamiliar languages. This article engages the definition of social
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Is Australia a Model for the UK? A Critical Assessment of Parallels of Cruelty in Refugee Externalization Policies Journal of Refugee Studies (IF 2.966) Pub Date : 2023-03-21 Margherita Matera, Tamara Tubakovic, Philomena Murray
For several years, Australia has been regarded by some politicians and observers in Europe as a model for hard-line policies towards refugees. At the same time, Australia’s implementation of refugee externalization measures has been subject to considerable scholarly attention and critique. Although the Australian approach has featured prominently in political debates in several European states, this
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Data-Driven Futures of International Refugee Law Journal of Refugee Studies (IF 2.966) Pub Date : 2023-02-07 William Hamilton Byrne, Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen, Sebastiano Piccolo, Naja Holten MØller, Tijs Slaats, Panagiota Katsikouli
As refugee law practice enters the world of data, it is time to take stock as to what refugee law research can gain from technological developments. This article provides an outline for a computationally driven research agenda to tackle refugee status determination variations as a recalcitrant puzzle of refugee law. It first outlines how the growing field of computational law may be canvassed to conduct
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Challenging the ‘Youth Gaze’: Building Diversity into Refugee and Asylum Reception and Integration Programmes Journal of Refugee Studies (IF 2.966) Pub Date : 2023-01-16 Caroline Oliver, Karin Geuijen, Rianne Dekker
Reception and integration programmes have often a dominant socio-economic focus that supports refugees’ swift movement into the labour market. This article examines the assumptions that such programmes make about their core target group and how this corresponds with participants’ diverse needs, drawing on conceptual work around the intersectionalities of age, relationalities, and migrant capital to