The Adversarial Impacts Of Protracted Refugee Situations On Refugee Protection And Camp Security
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| Author | : Rema-Therese Beydoun |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 95 |
| Release | : 2010 |
| Genre | : Refugee camps |
| ISBN | : |
Protracted Refugee Situations (PRS) are of serious concern due to their adverse impacts on human rights and stability in host countries. This thesis profiles three, so-called, durable solutions for refugees: local integration, third country resettlement, and voluntary repatriation. However, refugees living in PRS are not given any durable solutions, and they remain confined to refugee camps while the conflicts that forced them from their homelands continue. Refugees usually find themselves in PRS as a result of the restrictive policies of the country in which they have sought refuge. These conditions not only deprive refugees of basic human rights, but act as catalysts for political violence, insurgency, and radicalization. This thesis examines, in detail, one such case: Nahr al-Bared, a Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon where refugees have been living in PRS for decades due to stringent refugee policies that contributed to violent clashes that took place in May 2007. The denial of human rights for Palestinians in Lebanon has effectively marginalized already disempowered refugee populations, thereby increasing the likelihood of instability and radicalization. The denial of rights, a lack of opportunities, and confinement to the poor conditions of the refugee camp, are driving forces of political violence and militant rhetoric. This situation can endanger the refugee host country as well as the refugees, who are civilians in need of international protection. Therefore, there is a strong connection between the inclusion of rights for refugee populations in a host country, and peace and security. The case of Palestinians in Lebanon is examined as a microcosm of the notion that human rights and state security are interdependent. Recognition of this interdependence necessitates a paradigm shift in perspectives and policies of international refugee protection and state security, from regarding PRS as an indefinite state of emergency to be contained, to acknowledgment that the indefinite duty to protect refugees in protracted situations simultaneously serves the host country's security concerns.
| Author | : Gil Loescher |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 95 |
| Release | : 2005 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Anna Lise Purkey |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 262 |
| Release | : 2019-12-05 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 1000763552 |
This book investigates how effective human rights and the inherent dignity of refugees can be secured in situations of protracted exile and encampment. The book deploys an innovative human rights-based capabilities approach to address fundamental questions relating to law, power, governance, responsibility, and accountability in refugee camps. Adopting an original theoretical framework, the author demonstrates that legal empowerment can change the distribution of power in a given refugee situation, facilitating the exercise of individual agency and assisting in the reform of the opportunity structure available to the individual. Thus, by helping to increase the capability of refugees to participate actively in the decisions that most affect their core rights and interests, participatory approaches to legal empowerment can also assist in securing other capabilities, ultimately ensuring that refugees are able to live dignified lives while in protracted exile. Ultimately, the book demonstrates that legal empowerment of refugees can bring lasting benefits in establishing trust between refugees, the state, and local communities. It will be of interest to researchers within the fields of refugee studies, international law, development studies, and political science, as well as to policy-makers and practitioners working in the fields of refugee assistance and humanitarian intervention.
| Author | : Samantha Kerubo Angwenyi |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 148 |
| Release | : 2014 |
| Genre | : Asylum, Right of |
| ISBN | : |
Abstract: Refugees are considered a vulnerable population. As they lack protection from their own countries, it leaves them in need of international protection. This protection is carried out under the international refugee regime which is based on general international human rights law as well as the more refugee-specific international refugee law, both of which strive to ensure human rights protection. Refugee camps are set up as temporary methods of providing protection while durable solutions are sought. However, in recent times, this temporariness is brought into question as protractedness has grown to become a common feature of most refugee situations. The resulting reality is that refugees end up living in camps for longer and longer periods of time. Therefore, it is safe to assume that when refugee camps meet protracted refugee situations, a clash between temporariness and permanence is bound to exist. This thesis aims to explore the effect of this clash has on the refugees in terms of human rights protection. Economic, social and cultural rights were concentrated on as they are believed to have a major impact on the quality of life which resonates with ensuring adequate protection. The analysis is done through drawing examples from different refugee camps around the world. This is followed by a discussion of the findings and suggestions on how refugee agency and participation can be utilized to minimize the effects of this clash of temporariness and permanence.
| Author | : Gil Loescher |
| Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
| Total Pages | : 100 |
| Release | : 2005 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 9780415382984 |
First Published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
| Author | : Michel Agier |
| Publisher | : Polity |
| Total Pages | : 287 |
| Release | : 2011-01-25 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 0745649017 |
Official figures classify some fifty million of the world’s people as 'victims of forced displacement'. Refugees, asylum seekers, disaster victims, the internally displaced and the temporarily tolerated - categories of the excluded proliferate, but many more are left out of count. In the face of this tragedy, humanitarian action increasingly seems the only possible response. On the ground, however, the 'facilities' put in place are more reminiscent of the logic of totalitarianism. In a situation of permanent catastrophe and endless emergency, 'undesirables' are kept apart and out of sight, while the care dispensed is designed to control, filter and confine. How should we interpret the disturbing symbiosis between the hand that cares and the hand that strikes? After seven years of study in the refugee camps, Michel Agier reveals their 'disquieting ambiguity' and stresses the imperative need to take into account forms of improvisation and challenge that are currently transforming the camps, sometimes making them into towns and heralding the emergence of political subjects. A radical critique of the foundations, contexts, and political effects of humanitarian action.
| Author | : Edward Newman |
| Publisher | : Manas Publications |
| Total Pages | : 410 |
| Release | : 2003 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 9788170491965 |
The orthodox definition of international security put human displacement and refugees at the periphery. In contrast, this book demonstrates that human displacement can be both a cause and a consequence of conflict within and among societies. As such, the management of refugee movements and the protection of displaced people should be a part of security policy.
| Author | : Kate Jastram |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 154 |
| Release | : 2001 |
| Genre | : Asylum, Right of |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Astri Suhrke |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 439 |
| Release | : 2017-07-05 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 1351477676 |
The Great Lakes region of Africa has seen dramatic changes. After a decade of war, repression, and genocide, loosely allied regimes have replaced old-style dictatorships. The Path of a Genocide examines the decade (1986-97) that brackets the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. This collection of essays is both a narrative of that event and a deep reexamination of the international role in addressing humanitarian issues and complex emergencies.Nineteen donor countries and seventeen multilateral organizations, international agencies, and international nongovernmental organizations pooled their efforts for an in-depth evaluation of the international response to the conflict in Rwanda. Original studies were commissioned from scholars from Uganda, Rwanda, Zaire, Ethiopia, Norway, Great Britain, France, Canada, and the United States. While each chapter in this volume focuses on one dimension of the Rwanda conflict, together they tell the story of this unfolding genocide and the world's response.The Path of a Genocide offers readers a perspective in sharp contrast to the tendency to treat a peace agreement as the end to conflict. This is a detailed effort to make sense of the political crisis and genocide in Rwanda and the effects it had on its neighbors.
| Author | : Taylor B. Seybolt |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
| Total Pages | : 314 |
| Release | : 2007 |
| Genre | : Altruism |
| ISBN | : 0199252432 |
Military intervention in a conflict without a reasonable prospect of success is unjustifiable, especially when it is done in the name of humanity. Couched in the debate on the responsibility to protect civilians from violence and drawing on traditional 'just war' principles, the centralpremise of this book is that humanitarian military intervention can be justified as a policy option only if decision makers can be reasonably sure that intervention will do more good than harm. This book asks, 'Have past humanitarian military interventions been successful?' It defines success as saving lives and sets out a methodology for estimating the number of lives saved by a particular military intervention. Analysis of 17 military operations in six conflict areas that were thedefining cases of the 1990s-northern Iraq after the Gulf War, Somalia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Rwanda, Kosovo and East Timor-shows that the majority were successful by this measure. In every conflict studied, however, some military interventions succeeded while others failed, raising the question, 'Why have some past interventions been more successful than others?' This book argues that the central factors determining whether a humanitarian intervention succeeds are theobjectives of the intervention and the military strategy employed by the intervening states. Four types of humanitarian military intervention are offered: helping to deliver emergency aid, protecting aid operations, saving the victims of violence and defeating the perpetrators of violence. Thefocus on strategy within these four types allows an exploration of the political and military dimensions of humanitarian intervention and highlights the advantages and disadvantages of each of the four types.Humanitarian military intervention is controversial. Scepticism is always in order about the need to use military force because the consequences can be so dire. Yet it has become equally controversial not to intervene when a government subjects its citizens to massive violation of their basic humanrights. This book recognizes the limits of humanitarian intervention but does not shy away from suggesting how military force can save lives in extreme circumstances.
