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Title Refugee resettlement : power, politics, and humanitarian governance / edited by Adele Garnier, Liliana Lyra Jubilut, and Kristin Bergtora Sandvik
Published New York : Berghahn Books, 2018
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Description 1 online resource (x, 317 pages)
Series Studies in forced migration ; volume 38
Studies in forced migration ; v. 38.
Contents Intro; Refugee Resettlement; Copyright Page; Contents; Abbreviations; Introduction -- Refugee Resettlement as Humanitarian Governance: Power Dynamics; Part I -- Refugee Resettlement in International and Regional Perspectives; Chapter 1 -- Strategic Use of Resettlement: Enhancing Solutions for Greater Protection?; Chapter 2 -- A Legal History: The Emergence of the African Resettlement Candidate in International Refugree Management; Chapter 3 -- Brazil's Refugee Resettlement: Power, Humanitarianism, and Regional Leadership; 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 ImplementationChapter 5 -- Resettled Refugees and Work in Canada and Quebec: Humanitarianism and the Challenge of Mainstream Socioeconomic Participation; Chapter 6 -- The Structural and Institutional Exclusion of Refugees in Australia; Chapter 7 -- Shaping the Political Space for Resettlement: The Debate on Burden Sharing in Norway Following the Syrian Refugee Crisis; 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 StatesChapter 9 -- "Giving Cases Weight": Congolese Refugees' Tactics for Resettlement Selection; Chapter 10 -- The Politics of Resettlement: Expectations and Unfilled Promises in Chile and Brazil; Conclusion: The Moral Economy of the Resettlement Regime; Annex: Current Refugee Resettlement Program Profiles; Index
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 07, 2018)
Subject Refugees -- Services for
Humanitarianism.
Power (Social sciences)
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Security.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration
Humanitarianism
Power (Social sciences)
Refugees -- Services for
Form Electronic book
Author Garnier, Adele, editor
Jubilut, Liliana Lyra, editor
Sandvik, Kristin Bergtora, editor
LC no. 2018021400
ISBN 9781785339455
1785339451