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Refugee Resettlement : Power, Politics, and Humanitarian Governance /

Refugee Resettlement : Power, Politics, and Humanitarian Governance / ed. by 
Adèle Garnier, Kristin Bergtora Sandvik, Liliana Lyra Jubilut. - 1 online resource (330 p.) - Forced Migration ; 38 .

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Introduction. Refugee Resettlement as Humanitarian Governance: Power Dynamics -- Part I Refugee Resettlement in International and Regional Perspectives -- 1. Strategic Use of Resettlement: Enhancing Solutions for Greater Protection? -- 2. A Legal History: The Emergence of the African Resettlement Candidate in International Refugee Management -- 3. Brazil’s Refugee Resettlement: Power, Humanitarianism, and Regional Leadership -- Part II National Policies and Ideologies of Refugee Resettlement -- 4. Working It Out in Practice: Tensions Embedded in the U.S. Refugee Resettlement Program Resolved through Implementation -- 5. Resettled Refugees and Work in Canada and Quebec: Humanitarianism and the Challenge of Mainstream Socioeconomic Participation -- 6 The Structural and Institutional Exclusion of Refugees in Australia -- 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 -- 8. Parallel Pasts, Presents, and Futures: Narratives of Cambodian and Karen Refugees in the United States -- 9. “Giving Cases Weight”: Congolese Refugees’ Tactics for Resettlement Selection -- 10. The Politics of Resettlement: Expectations and Unfulfilled Promises in Chile and Brazil -- Conclusion. The Moral Economy of the Resettlement Regime -- Annex. Current Refugee Resettlement Program Profiles -- Index

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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.


Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.


In English.

9781785339448 9781785339455

10.1515/9781785339455 doi


Humanitarianism.
Power (Social sciences).
Refugees--Services for.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration.

Resettlement, Refugees, Displacement, Global Politcs, Migration, Humanitarian, International Relations.

362.8783