Refugees and the Transformation of Societies

Agency, Policies, Ethics and Politics
1. Auflage 2005
ISBN: 978-1-84545-033-5
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 13, 248 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 383 g

Reihe: Forced Migration

The refusal or reception of refugees has had serious implications for the social policies and social realities of numerous countries in east and west. Exploring experiences, interpretations and practices of 'refugees,' 'the internally displaced' and 'returnees' in or emerging from societies in violent conflict, this volume challenges prevailing orthodoxies and encourages new developments in refugee studies. It also addresses the ethics and politics of interventions by professionals and policy makers, using case studies of refugees from or in South Asia, the Middle East, North Africa, Europe and the Americas. These illustrate the dynamic nature of situations where refugees, policy- makers and practitioners interact in trying to construct new livelihoods in transforming societies.

Without a proper understanding of this dynamic nature, so the volume argues overall, it is not possible to develop successful strategies for the accommodation and integration of refugees.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Essed, Philomena

Frerks, Georg

Schrijvers, Joke

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Entwicklungsökonomie & Emerging Markets
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Entwicklungsstudien
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

List of Abbreviations

Introduction: Refugees, Agency and Social Transformation

Philomena Essed, Georg Frerks and Joke Schrijvers

PART I: 'REFUGEEHOOD': CLAIMING SPACES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Chapter 1. Refugeehood, Loss and Social Change: Eritrean Refugees and Returnees

Gaim Kibreab

Chapter 2. Repatriation: Angolan Refugees or Migrating Villagers?

Oliver Bakewell

Chapter 3. Space and Movement in the Sri Lankan Conflict

Oivind Fuglerud

Chapter 4. Contested Refugee Status: Human Rights, Ethics and Social Responsibilities

Philomena Essed and Rianne Wesenbeek

PART II: REDEFINING IDENTITIES AND SOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS

Chapter 5. A Life Project out of Turmoil: Displacement and Gender in Colombia

Donny Meertens

Chapter 6. Permanent Refugees: Female Camp Inhabitants in Bihar

Kathinka Sinha-Kerkhoff

Chapter 7. New Opportunities: Angry Young Men in a Tanzanian Refugee Camp

Simon Turner

Chapter 8. Identities and the Sense of Belonging: Iranian Women Activists in Exile

Halleh Ghorashi

PART III: DISCOURAGING POLICIES; EMPOWERING AGENCY

Chapter 9. A Community Empowered? The Bosnia Project in the U.K.

Lynnette Kelly

Chapter 10. Refugee-generated Return: the Case of Guatemala

Anita Rapone and Charles Simpson

Chapter 11. Between Victim and Agent: Women’s Ambivalent Empowerment in Displacement

Darini Rajasingham-Senanayake

PART IV: CHALLENGING DICHOTOMIES: RELIEF VERSUS DEVELOPMENT

Chapter 12. Refugees between Relief and Development

Georg Frerks

Chapter 13. Rethinking the Relation between Relief and Development: ‘Villagisation’ in Rwanda

Dorothea Hilhorst and Mathijs van Leeuwen

Chapter 14. Dilemmas of Humanitarian Aid: Supporting Internal Refugees in Sri Lanka

Joke Schrijvers

Bibliography

Notes on Contributors

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Frerks, Georg
Georg Frerks is Professor of Disaster Studies, Rural Development Sociology Group, Wageningen University.

Schrijvers, Joke
Joke Schrijvers is a Social Anthropologist, Emeritus Professor of Development Studies, University of Amsterdam.

Essed, Philomena
Philomena Essed is Senior Researcher, University of Amsterdam and Visiting Professor of Women's Studies, University of California, Irvine.

Philomena Essed is Senior Researcher, University of Amsterdam and Visiting Professor of Women's Studies, University of California, Irvine.