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The Temporality of Intimate Partner Violence – How an Understanding of Time and Gendered Threats Can Foster Protection-Positive Outcomes Refugee Survey Quarterly Pub Date : 2024-02-27 Sharelle Aitchison
This article brings together temporality and gender in the refugee process and examines how refugee determination bodies and courts have interpreted gendered threats, as a specific form of intimate partner violence. A case law review of jurisdictions (that include Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the UK) is conducted, revealing a flawed temporal phenomenon where decision-makers have focused primarily
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When Legal Inclusion is not Enough: the “Uganda Model” of Refugee Protection on the Brink of Failure Refugee Survey Quarterly Pub Date : 2023-11-16 Maciej Grześkowiak
This article develops the existing literature on the challenges facing the Ugandan refugee protection system by showing the interrelatedness of these challenges and linking them to the core assumptions of the “Uganda Model” of refugee protection. To that effect, it presents primary, qualitative data gathered in the field. This empirical evidence reveals profound marginalisation of refugees within Uganda
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Doing Refugee Right(s) with Technologies? Humanitarian Crises and the Multiplication of “Exceptional” Legal States Refugee Survey Quarterly Pub Date : 2023-11-07 Mirjam Twigt
Like borders, refugee protection settings beyond the EU often serve as testing grounds for technologies. This article takes a socio-legal perspective to show how humanitarian experimentation in these contexts is made possible through different, interacting challenges to sovereignty. It argues that the understanding that actors or their positions are “exceptional” allows for and justifies data practices
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Where is Home without Legal Status? Understanding the Choice to Stay Among Post-Cessation Liberians in Nigeria Refugee Survey Quarterly Pub Date : 2023-11-06 Tosin Samuel Durodola
This article examines the experiences of “residual” Liberian refugees in Nigeria, individuals who remained in their country of asylum after the UNHCR terminated their refugee status. This study explores how the diverse interpretations of home and flight contribute to their decision to “stay” rather than opt for voluntary repatriation. In the context of transnationalism, the concept of simultaneity
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Making Room for Refugee Interpretation of Labelling: A Case Study from the Turkish–Syrian Border Refugee Survey Quarterly Pub Date : 2023-10-25 Kathryn Hampton, Gökçe Türkyilmaz
Turkey admitted millions of refugees fleeing the Syrian civil war. However, the situation of Syrians in Turkey remains precarious under the temporary protection regime, unable to qualify as Convention refugees due to Turkey’s geographic reservation to the 1967 Protocol and with limited access to work permits and citizenship. Based on in-depth interviews, we provide a case study of refugee perspectives
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Critiquing Trends and Identifying Gaps in the Literature on LGBTQ Refugees and Asylum-Seekers Refugee Survey Quarterly Pub Date : 2023-10-16 Diego García Rodríguez
This article delivers a comprehensive review of the English-language literature concerning the experiences of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, transsexual, and queer (LGBTQ) refugees and asylum-seekers. Through an incisive synthesis and analysis, it identifies five pivotal themes: 1) journey and settlement; 2) legislation, policy, and charitable intervention; 3) health; 4) creative expression;
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A Critical Analysis of Japan’s Decision to Accept Ukrainians Following the Russian Invasion in 2022 Refugee Survey Quarterly Pub Date : 2023-09-06 Atsushi Yamagata
Shortly after the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida announced that Japan would accept Ukrainians who had fled to third countries. While this prompt decision should be welcomed, the Japanese government has been criticised for its reluctance to accept refugees for years. Because of Japan’s past restrictive approach to refugees and asylum-seekers, the decision
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Borders and Boundaries in Daily Urban Mobility Practices of Refugees in Cape Town, South Africa Refugee Survey Quarterly Pub Date : 2023-06-09 Tamuka Chekero
This ethnographic study investigates the ways in which the label of refugee creates and reinforces particular kinds of boundaries and borders in mobility and survival efforts. Specifically, it looks at refugees’ movement in Bellville, Cape Town, to see how state and local borders affect intra-city refugee movement and how refugees deal with these obstacles in order to find localised protection and
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On Idle Possibilities and Missed Chances: Refugee Rights in Egypt Refugee Survey Quarterly Pub Date : 2023-05-24 Elena Habersky, Amira Hetaba-Sabry, Claire McNally
This article investigates the rights of refugees in Egypt and the numerous barriers that exist that prevent their enjoyment. Specifically, the article examines the implementation of international and regional legal frameworks relating to refugees and asylum-seekers by two key stakeholders in Egypt, namely the host state and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). In addition, the
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Article III of the OAU Refugee Convention in Context: the Emergence of Subversion in the African Inter-State System Refugee Survey Quarterly Pub Date : 2023-04-17 Chidi Anselm Odinkalu
On the face of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) Convention Governing the Specific Aspects of Refugee Problems in Africa, the refugee problem in Africa is explicitly a multi-dimensional humanitarian, political, and security challenge. Linking the problem of refugees in Africa to the challenge of coexistence among then newly independent African States, Article III of the OAU Convention prohibits
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The Political Work of Migration Governance Binaries: Responses to Zimbabwean “Survival Migration” at the Zimbabwe–South Africa Border Refugee Survey Quarterly Pub Date : 2023-04-03 Kudakwashe Vanyoro
This article’s purpose is to analyse the political work of binaries used in both domestic and global migration governance responses with a particular focus on Zimbabwean “survival migration” at the Zimbabwe–South Africa border. This article finds that there is peculiar complementarity between South Africa’s domestic migration governance framework and global migration governance frameworks aimed at
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Country Guidance, Country of Origin Information, and the International Protection Needs of Persons Fleeing Armed Conflicts Refugee Survey Quarterly Pub Date : 2023-03-29 Christel Querton
The article explores whether the European Union Agency for Asylum’s country guidance (CG) reflects the international protection needs of persons fleeing armed conflicts. It uses the Agency’s guidance on Iraq as a case study through the lens of objectivity and relevance. The article highlights the disproportionate reliance on military and State-centric sources which adopt a traditional and narrow concept
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Returning Home: A Comparative Analysis of the Experiences of Sri Lankan First- and Second-Generation Refugee Returnees from India Refugee Survey Quarterly Pub Date : 2023-03-09 Anoji Ekanayake, Kopalapillai Amirthalingam
Since the end of the civil war in 2009, Sri Lankan refugees in India have begun to return home slowly. This article examines the reintegration experiences of first-generation returnees vis-à-vis second-generation returnees who were either born in India or were small children at the time of migration and thus have limited memory of their lives in Sri Lanka before migration. Particular attention is given
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A “Surrogate State” for Refugees in Greece Refugee Survey Quarterly Pub Date : 2023-02-11 Manos Moschopoulos
The rapid increase in the number of refugees arriving to Greece in 2015 and the subsequent moves by the European Union Member States to limit their secondary movement triggered what has been described as the “most expensive humanitarian response in history.” The European Commission, believing that Greece did not have the capacity to respond to the situation, directly funded international organisations
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A Sustainable Solution or Just a Different Form of Humanitarian Assistance? Examining the Kalobeyei Integrated Socio-Economic Development Plan (KISEDP) Refugee Survey Quarterly Pub Date : 2023-02-02 Måns Fellesson
This article contributes to the understanding of operational challenges linked to the implementation of the Global Compact on Refugees and the Comprehensive Refugee Response Framework . In the scope of the analysis is the operationalisation of the Kalobeyei Integrated Socio-Economic Development Plan in Kenya, aimed at promoting economic and social integration through greater opportunities for self-reliance
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Behind the Politics of Resilience: the Limits of the EU’s Response to Syrian Refugees in Lebanon Refugee Survey Quarterly Pub Date : 2022-12-27 Lyla André
The Syrian crisis that began expanding in 2012 has sent millions of refugees into neighbouring countries and beyond and proved to be a testing ground for the European Union’s new approach to humanitarian crises. Focused on European Union-funded educational programmes carried out in response to the Syrian refugee crisis in Lebanon, this article argues that the European Union’s approach has nevertheless
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Why is Syria a War but Not Afghanistan? Nationality-based Aid and Protection in Turkey’s Syria Refugee Response Refugee Survey Quarterly Pub Date : 2022-12-27 Shaddin Almasri
This article argues that, following the most recent influx of Syrians, refugee reception and aid policies in Turkey has shifted to be differentiated depending on the nationality of refugee groups. This research relies on a case study methodology and assesses changes in reception and aid access policies undertaken in Turkey post the Syrian influx and European Union (EU)–Turkey deal. In doing so it critically
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Navigating the Intersection of Scepticism, Gender Blindness, and Ethnocentricity in the Asylum Tribunal: the Urgent Case For Empathy Enhancement Refugee Survey Quarterly Pub Date : 2022-08-17 Helen O’Nions
Adopting a critical legal studies position, informed by procedural justice theory, this article argues that the intersection of scepticism with ethnocentric and gender-blind expectations of behaviour from tribunal judges impacts the fairness of proceedings, to the particular detriment of women asylum-seekers in the UK. Procedural justice theorists argue that fair procedures help court users to accept
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Saving Brown Women from Brown Men? “Refugee Women”, Gender and the Racialised Politics of Protection Refugee Survey Quarterly Pub Date : 2022-08-13 Heaven Crawley
White feminist scholarship in the Global North has drawn attention to the challenges facing women seeking protection under international refugee law (IRL). Whilst these efforts have improved outcomes for some women, they have largely failed to reconfigure the ways in which gendered experiences of persecution are conceptualised and represented. Drawing on postcolonial feminist scholarship, this article
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The “Guardian of the Treaties” is No More? The European Commission and the 2021 Humanitarian Crisis on Poland–Belarus Border Refugee Survey Quarterly Pub Date : 2022-08-12 Maciej Grześkowiak
In 2021, a humanitarian crisis developed at the Poland–Belarus border due to the considerable influx of migrants from Belarus. Polish authorities responded with a systematic practice of pushbacks, sanctioned prima facie by legislative action, that are incompatible with Poland’s obligations under international and EU legal systems. This policy led to the suffering of migrants stranded between borders
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Between a Rock and a Hard Place: a Human Rights Assessment of the Fate of Excluded Asylum-seekers and Criminal Refugees in Australia Refugee Survey Quarterly Pub Date : 2022-08-12 Júlia Zomignani Barboza
Migrants fearing harm in their own country may benefit from the protection of refugee law. This protection, however, is not extended to those considered undeserving of it, for example, because they committed atrocities in the past, and may be removed from those who become a threat to the host State’s national security. In practice, States need to find solutions for such migrants, who are often failed
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Women Refugees and the Development of US Asylum Law: 1980-present Refugee Survey Quarterly Pub Date : 2022-08-09 Deborah Anker
Over the past three decades, the US has developed a robust body of gender asylum law, including claims of women subject to sexual violence or other serious harm for reasons of gender. This body of law both reflects and has been a catalyst for larger shifts in US jurisprudence recognising the international treaty law basis of domestic asylum law. For years such progress was stymied by a dominant Cold
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Refugee Women and the Gendered Violence of Australia’s Extraterritorial Asylum Regime on Nauru Refugee Survey Quarterly Pub Date : 2022-07-27 Saba Vasefi, Sara Dehm
This article examines the gendered harms of state refugee externalisation laws and policies using the case study of Australia’s extraterritorial asylum regime on Nauru. While the regime has been widely criticised, the particular carceral experiences and structural vulnerabilities of refugee women and girls have received limited attention in refugee law scholarship. Drawing on interviews with 10 refugee
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Women in Refugee Law, Policy and Practice: An Introduction to the Refugee Survey Quarterly Special Issue Refugee Survey Quarterly Pub Date : 2022-07-27 Moira Dustin, Christel Querton
As co-founders and conveners of the Women in Refugee Law (WiRL) network, we are delighted to introduce this Special Issue. The contributors are WiRL members who take forward the network’s objectives of recentring the study of refugee women by reviewing the state of protection in domestic jurisdictions and internationally, identifying setbacks to adequate protection for women at risk of persecution
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The Privilege to Work: Syrian Refugees in Jordan, Technical and Vocational Education Training, and the Remote Work Loophole Refugee Survey Quarterly Pub Date : 2022-07-21 Jinan Bastaki, Lorraine Charles
Jordan is the second biggest host of Syrian refugees per capita in the world, yet, initially, refugees were not given the legal right to work. Investment in Technical and Vocational Education Training (TVET) was seen as a way to equip refugees and host communities to find employment, and with the 2016 Jordan Compact, a formal pathway for employment was created for Syrians refugees in Jordan. It appears
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“An Unhappy Interlude”: Trivialisation and Privatisation of Forced Marriage in Asylum-Seeker Women’s Cases in the UK Refugee Survey Quarterly Pub Date : 2022-07-19 Nora Honkala
This article examines asylum-seeker women’s appeals involving forced marriage at the Upper Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber) in the UK over the past 20 years. Internationally forced marriage has long been understood as a human rights issue. In the UK, the government has introduced a range of policy and legislative measures to tackle forced marriage of its nationals that have been framed within
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Concluding Reflections from the former UNHRC Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women, its Causes and Consequences (2009–15) Refugee Survey Quarterly Pub Date : 2022-07-09 Rashida Manjoo
This concluding chapter provides an overview of the chapters, as well as briefly highlighting the relevant normative frameworks applicable to the issues addressed in this special edition journal. The authors have addressed structural, institutional, and individual gaps and challenges in the refugee protection sphere and have raised concerns about the lack of adequate acknowledgement of gendered aspects
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Non-State Actors of Protection and the Sliding Scale of Protection for Refugee Women Refugee Survey Quarterly Pub Date : 2022-07-09 Christel Querton
The article argues that although the gradual recognition of non-State actors as agents of persecution was hailed as a success in ensuring better protection for refugee women at risk of harm from their community or family, the associated development of non-state actors as agents of protection has had a detrimental impact on the protection of refugee women in Europe and more globally. More specifically
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Pathways to Refugee Protection for Women: Victims of Violence or Genuine Lesbians? Refugee Survey Quarterly Pub Date : 2022-07-01 Moira Dustin
Failures in UK decision-making for women seeking protection from gender-based violence vary depending on the claimant’s (purported) sexuality. These failures are attributable, at least in part, to the application of the particular social group Refugee Convention ground which channels claims along two distinct pathways: one path, for women assumed to be straight, focuses on the violence that threatens
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Ambivalent (In)Securities: Comparing Urban Refugee Women’s Experiences of Informal and Formal Security Provision Refugee Survey Quarterly Pub Date : 2022-05-31 Sarah Linn
Using feminist theories of geolegality, geopolitics, and intersectionality, this article presents Syrian refugee women’s experiences and perceptions of both formal and informal security providers in Amman and Beirut in 2016–2017. Based on qualitative data from refugee women based in these cities since the onset of the Syrian civil war, this article argues three related points regarding urban refugee
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Syrian Refugees’ Homemaking in Gaziantep: Uncertainty, Legality and Temporality Refugee Survey Quarterly Pub Date : 2022-03-31 Irem Sengul
ABSTRACT Temporary protection has long been formulated and debated in policy circles as a practical interim response for large-scale refugee movements, awaiting durable solutions. This article critically engages with the top-down formulations of temporary protection by focusing on one of its latest and most comprehensive application in Turkey for Syrian refugees since 2011. The conceptual framework
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Local Integration: A Durable Solution in need of Restoration? Refugee Survey Quarterly Pub Date : 2022-03-23 Lucy Hovil, Nicholas Maple
Local integration has long been seen as the “forgotten” durable solution to refugee displacement1 evidenced by the reluctance of governments across the world to accord refugees a new citizenship. This article goes further. It argues that local integration as a durable solution has not been merely forgotten, but deliberately avoided at a national, regional and international level. As a result, its veracity
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‘A Test that is about Your Life’*: The Involvement of Refugee Children in Asylum Application Proceedings in the Netherlands Refugee Survey Quarterly Pub Date : 2022-02-15 Stephanie Rap
Refugee children are often neither recognised as rights holders nor as active agents in asylum procedures. A one-sided view of these children as vulnerable objects is not in coherence with international children’s rights, including the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, which regards all children as autonomous subjects and full bearers of rights. Through 21 in-depth interviews with unaccompanied
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Before the Convention: The Spanish Civil War and Challenges for Research on Refugee History Refugee Survey Quarterly Pub Date : 2022-02-15 Javier Rodrigo, David Alegre Lorenz
This article uses the tools of comparative history to address an important aspect of the Spanish Civil War: the fact that it generated waves of both internally displaced persons and cross-border refugees. Situating the conflict within the context of inter-war Europe, and particularly historical processes of deportation, forced migration, and exile, it analyses the challenges that the crisis of the
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Displaced Persons’ Experiences of Trauma and Responses to Contemporary Crisis in Europe: An Oral History of Engagement with Refugees Refugee Survey Quarterly Pub Date : 2022-02-11 Jessica Stroja
The contemporary refugee crisis is an ongoing global concern. For the many East European displaced persons who were resettled in Queensland following the Second World War, these events are particularly poignant. Their prior experiences of violence, incarceration and encampment are being echoed in current developments, and contribute to their approach towards these events today. While scholars have
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Whither the Refugees? International Organisations and “Solutions” to Displacement, 1921–1960 Refugee Survey Quarterly Pub Date : 2022-02-09 Megan Bradley, Laura Madokoro, Merve Erdilmen, Christopher Chanco
Achieving “durable solutions” is a central goal of the contemporary refugee regime. Durable solutions are often equated with three routes to resolving displacement—voluntary repatriation, local integration or resettlement—and the concept is closely tied to ideas about permanency, protection, and the rectification of refugees’ legal limbo. Despite its contemporary prominence, the genealogy of the concept
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In Search of the Invisible People: Revisiting the Concept of “Internally Displaced Persons” in Light of an Ethiopian Case Study Refugee Survey Quarterly Pub Date : 2021-12-09 Dereje Regasa, Ine Lietaert
Internal displacement has become one of the most pressing humanitarian crises today, with the Global South being especially affected. Despite this, internally displaced persons (IDPs) remain underrepresented in humanitarian policy and academia. While attention for IDPs is increasing, the extent to whether the label actually embraces all circumstances of internal displacement can be questioned. We argue
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The Battisti Case: A Legal-Historical Reconstruction Refugee Survey Quarterly Pub Date : 2021-11-27 José H Fischel de Andrade
The Battisti Case constitutes a rare high-profile case of decision-making and judicial ruling on the (hardly ever explored) interpretation and implementation of refugee law by political, technical, and judicial actors in Latin America. It concerns an Italian citizen, Cesare Battisti, sentenced twice to life imprisonment who, after escaping from prison, fled to Mexico, France, Brazil, and Bolivia. Even
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International Organisations and “Local” Networks: Localisation and Refugee Participation in the Ethiopian-South Sudanese Borderlands Refugee Survey Quarterly Pub Date : 2021-11-12 Yotam Gidron, Freddie Carver
Recent debates on “refugee participation” and the “localisation” of refugee programmes have focused on the potential role of refugee-led organisations. In this article, we explore the engagement of humanitarian actors with South Sudanese refugees in Gambella (western Ethiopia) in order to problematise this focus. There are no formally registered refugee-led organisations in Gambella. Community organisations
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UN Sustainable Development Goals and the “Refugee Gap”: Leaving Refugees Behind? Refugee Survey Quarterly Pub Date : 2021-11-12 Chiara Denaro, Mariagiulia Giuffré
The Global Indicator Framework for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) identifies seventeen goals with related targets and indicators of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, and only one target includes an explicit reference to migration processes and policies. Under Goal 10 “Reduce inequality within and among countries,” target 10.7 concerns the facilitation of “orderly, safe, regular
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Accountability in Humanitarian Action Refugee Survey Quarterly Pub Date : 2021-10-22 Dorothea Hilhorst, Samantha Melis, Rodrigo Mena, Roanne van Voorst
Although a growing number of NGOs are combining humanitarian and development activities, it was long the case that humanitarian action was isolated from discussions and practices in the world of development. The work of saving lives was deemed to be guided solely by the humanitarian principles, and discussions on accountability were rare. In the 1990s, humanitarian standards initiatives arose in recognition
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Humanitarian Accountability in Displacement Contexts: Five Years on from the Grand Bargain Refugee Survey Quarterly Pub Date : 2021-10-07 Diana Martin, Sarah Singer, Bethan Mathias
Humanitarian accountability has been the subject of increased attention in recent years. However, examination of how its principles and practices play out in displacement contexts is an under-explored area. In this Editorial, we outline the development of humanitarian accountability standards and practice, with particular focus on their applicability to displacement contexts. As we refer to and introduce
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“Littered with Logos!”: An Investigation into the Relationship between Water Provision, Humanitarian Branding, Donor Accountability, and Self-Reliance in Ugandan Refugee Settlements Refugee Survey Quarterly Pub Date : 2021-09-30 Diana Martin, Julia Brown
The branding of humanitarian assets and programme signage (often in English) is common practice in displacement contexts. Such visibility is a reminder of the special status of refugee spaces and a requirement imposed by donors. However, such branding, which forms part of the humanitarian organisations’ accountability to donors, raises profound issues in relation to the Comprehensive Refugee Response
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Digital Refugee Lawyering: Risk, Legal Knowledge, and Accountability Refugee Survey Quarterly Pub Date : 2021-09-30 Kristin Bergtora Sandvik
This article explores how the digital transformation of humanitarianism, and the refugee regime reshapes refugee lawyering. Much refugee lawyering is based on a traditional understanding of legal protection – and a focus on legal aid, law reform advocacy, and specific protection procedures (such as refugee status determination). Refugee lawyering must now grapple with the challenges offered by the
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Sudanese Refugees and the “Syrian Refugee Response” in Lebanon: Racialised Hierarchies, Processes of Invisibilisation, and Resistance Refugee Survey Quarterly Pub Date : 2021-09-10 Maja Janmyr
By focusing on Sudanese refugees and asylum-seekers in Lebanon, who in 2018 constituted 4 per cent of all persons of concern to United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in that country, this article explores how the UNHCR protects and assists refugees not encompassed by the mainstream humanitarian response. The article finds that in terms of refugee recognition, resettlement, and overall
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Re-Thinking Protection for LGBTI Refugees in Kampala, Uganda: A Relational, Trust-Based Approach Refugee Survey Quarterly Pub Date : 2021-09-08 David Sinclair, Giulia Sinatti
This article problematises protection for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex (LGBTI) refugees in contexts of state-condoned persecution against this group. Based on ethnographic evidence from Kampala, Uganda, we draw attention to the homogenising tendencies of centralised protection systems in cities in the global south, which are primarily centred on nationality-based communities. We
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Examining the Vulnerability Procedure: Group-based Determinations at the EU Border Refugee Survey Quarterly Pub Date : 2021-09-08 Karin Åberg
Between 2016 and 2019, almost all asylum seekers who managed to reach the Greek islands in the North Aegean Sea had to undergo an assessment of their vulnerability within the EU hotspot system. Those who were found vulnerable were exempted from return under the EU-Turkey Agreement and were free to leave for the Greek mainland. This article provides a detailed account of the vulnerability procedure
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Contemporary Perspectives on Internal Displacement in Africa: An Introduction to the Refugee Survey Quarterly Special Collection Refugee Survey Quarterly Pub Date : 2021-07-27 David Cantor, Nicholas Maple
On behalf of the editorial team at the Refugee Survey Quarterly,11 we are proud to present a Special Collection of research on the theme of internal displacement in Africa. Each of the five articles in this journal issue provides a distinct contemporary perspective on how internal displacement, and the response to it by governments, agencies, and local political and economic actors, plays out on the
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Corrigendum to: “Refugee Rights Across Regions: A Comparative Overview of Legislative Good Practices in Latin America and the EU” Refugee Survey Quarterly Pub Date : 2021-07-23
Luisa Feline FREIER and Jean-Pierre GAUCI; Refugee Rights Across Regions: A Comparative Overview of Legislative Good Practices in Latin America and the EU, Refugee Survey Quarterly, Volume 39, Issue 3, 2020, Pages 321–362, https://doi.org/ 10.1093/rsq/hdaa011
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Reproductive Health for Conflict-Affected Displaced Women in Nigeria: An Intersectionality-Based Critical Ethnography Study Refugee Survey Quarterly Pub Date : 2021-07-10 Oluwakemi C Amodu, Bukola O Salami, Magdalena S Richter
Nigeria is a significant contributor to the global forcibly displaced population. The majority of this displacement is related to Boko Haram and herdsmen attacks in Northern Nigeria. A growing body of research has started to investigate issues surrounding protection concerns for the internally displaced who have been uprooted by these uprisings and attacks. Importantly, research is also starting to
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Skewed Allegiances: Recalibrating Humanitarian Accountability towards Gender Refugee Survey Quarterly Pub Date : 2021-06-15 Michelle Lokot
Humanitarian actors often face competing accountabilities that may skew “upwards” in favour of donors. With increasing requirements on humanitarian actors to demonstrate efficiency and impact, accountability has often become depoliticised, reduced to technical frameworks and bureaucratic processes. Within humanitarian work focused on promoting gender equality, the problems in how accountability is
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On Critical Localism and the Privatisation of Refuge: The Resettlement of Syrian Newcomers in Canada Refugee Survey Quarterly Pub Date : 2021-06-15 Suzan Ilcan, Laura Connoy
Increases in displacement and forced migration is an enduring feature of many countries. Resettlement is a policy response to displacement, that relocates refugees from a country of asylum to a safe third country. Canada’s Private Sponsorship of Refugees Program is noteworthy. It allows non-profit organizations and volunteer groups to support newcomers during their first year in Canada and has especially
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Entrepreneurial Systems of Syrian Refugees as Stimulators of Host Economy: Case of Ouzaii (Lebanon) Refugee Survey Quarterly Pub Date : 2021-04-26 Yassine B, Al-Harithy H.
AbstractThis article investigates the impact of the Syrian displacement on the economic and urban transformation in Ouzaii, a major informal settlement in the southern suburbs of Beirut that is characterised by a complex socio-political structure. It explores the potential of “entrepreneurial systems” that emerge when Syrian refugees become part of the host community and its economy. These systems
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Improving SOGI Asylum Adjudication: Putting Persecution Ahead of Identity Refugee Survey Quarterly Pub Date : 2021-05-26 Moira Dustin, Nuno Ferreira
This article addresses the concern that decision-making in sexual orientation or gender identity (SOGI) asylum claims in Europe is often unfair, and that one way to remedy this is by improving the guidance provided to decision-makers when interpreting the Refugee Convention in respect of these claims. We begin by interrogating a number of different decision-making guidelines and models to assess whether
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Conflict, Displacement … and Peace? A Critical Review of Research Debates Refugee Survey Quarterly Pub Date : 2021-05-14 Ulrike Krause, Nadine Segadlo
The nexus of violent conflict and forced migration has received continuous scholarly attention since the 1980s, but what are the focus areas and key strands in these research debates? Based on a semi-systematic review of research published between 1980 and 2020, this article examines debates about conflict, displacement, and peace. The review leads to the identification of three main strands that are
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Why Displaced Farmers Do Not Return to Agriculture? Lessons from Iraq Refugee Survey Quarterly Pub Date : 2021-01-07 Shideed K, Bertini R, Rossi L, et al.
AbstractThe conflict between Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) and security forces in Iraq caused the displacement of 6 million people and the large-scale destruction of the agricultural sector in Iraq. As of April 2020, it is reported that 4.7 million people returned home, while 1.4 remain displaced. This study assesses what it is that prevents displaced farmers from returning to agriculture
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The Question of Data in Internal Displacement Law-and-Policy-making Refugee Survey Quarterly Pub Date : 2021-01-07 Caterina M, Lizcano Rodríguez A.
AbstractThis article aims to open a dialogue on how laws and policies on internal displacement (should) address the issue of data. Despite a growing attention to law- and policy-making as well as data collection on internal displacement, and the amount of resources available on both areas, there seems to be very limited literature and guidance on which data provisions should be incorporated into internal
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Community Resilience and the Return of Iraqi IDPs with Perceived Affiliation to the Islamic State Refugee Survey Quarterly Pub Date : 2021-01-07 Aymerich O.
AbstractThis article examines the development of two resilience responses by communities in Iraq when faced with the return of internally displaced persons (IDPs) with perceived affiliation to the Islamic State (IS) in the years following the military campaign to dislodge the group. Whereas some communities developed preventive resilience as a strategy to keep the perceived threat posed by IDPs with
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Enhancing State-to-State Dialogue on Internal Displacement: Current Global Fora and Future Prospects Refugee Survey Quarterly Pub Date : 2021-01-07 Hudson B, Ní Ghráinne B.
AbstractThis article explores the potential for global platforms to facilitate State-to-State dialogue on internal displacement. It is in this respect concerned with both the usage and performance of existing platforms to date, as well as prospects for the future. It firstly examines the extent to which pertinent political fora concerned with human rights function as appropriate platforms. Secondly