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How are refugee crises solved? This has become an urgent question as global displacement rates continue to climb, and refugee situations now persist for years if not decades. The resolution of displacement and the conflicts that force refugees from their homes is often explained as a top-down process led and controlled by governments and international organizations. This book takes a different approach. Through contributions from scholars working in politics, anthropology, law, sociology and philosophy, and a wide range of case studies, it explores the diverse ways in which refugees themselves interpret, create and pursue solutions to their plight. It investigates the empirical and normative significance of refugees’ engagement as agents in these processes, and their implications for research, policy and practice. This book speaks both to academic debates and to the broader community of peacebuilding, humanitarian and human rights scholars concerned with the nature and dynamics of agency in contentious political contexts, and identifies insights that can inform policy and practice.
How are refugee crises solved? This has become an urgent question as global displacement rates continue to climb, and refugee situations now persist for years if not decades. The resolution of displacement and the conflicts that force refugees from their homes is often explained as a top-down process led and controlled by governments and international organizations. This book takes a different approach. Through contributions from scholars working in politics, anthropology, law, sociology and philosophy, and a wide range of case studies, it explores the diverse ways in which refugees themselves interpret, create and pursue solutions to their plight. It investigates the empirical and normative significance of refugees’ engagement as agents in these processes, and their implications for research, policy and practice. This book speaks both to academic debates and to the broader community of peacebuilding, humanitarian and human rights scholars concerned with the nature and dynamics of agency in contentious political contexts, and identifies insights that can inform policy and practice.
ForewordFrançois Crépeau
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Shaping the Struggles of Their TimesMegan Bradley,
James Milner and Blair Peruniak
Part I: Refugees and Resolution Processes: Disciplinary
Perspectives
1. Durable Solutions and the Political Action of RefugeesKaren
Jacobsen
2. Refugees, Peacebuilding, and the Anthropology of the GoodCindy
Horst
3. Displacement Resolution and “Massively Shared Agency”Blair
Peruniak
4. Transformative Justice and Legal Conscientization: Refugee
Participation in Peace Processes, Repatriation, and
ReconciliationAnna Purkey
Part II: Pursing Peace and Social Reconstruction: Displaced
Persons’ Roles
5. Complex Victimhood and Social Reconstruction after War and
DisplacementErin Baines
6. Refugees, Peacebuilding, and Paternalism: Lessons from
MozambiqueJames Milner
7. Displaced Persons as Symbols of Grievance: Collective Identity,
Individual Rights and Durable SolutionsPatrik Johansson
Part III: Seeking “Solutions” to Displacement within and beyond
Traditional Frameworks
8. Shunning Solidarity: Durable Solutions in a Fluid EraLoren B.
Landau
9. “Grabbing” Solutions: Internal Displacement and Post-Disaster
Land Occupations in HaitiAngela Sherwood
10. From IDPs to Victims in Colombia: Reflections on Durable
Solutions in the Postconflict SettingJulieta Lemaitre and Kristin
Bergtora Sandvik
11. Refugees’ Roles in Resettlement from Uganda and Tanzania:
Agency, Intersectionality, and RelationshipsChristina Clark-Kazak
and Marnie Jane Thomson
12. Liberian Refugee Protest and the Meaning of AgencyAmanda
Coffie
13. From Roots to Rhizomes: Mapping Rhizomatic Strategies in the
Sahrawi and Palestinian Protracted Refugee SituationsElena
Fiddian-Qasmiyeh
Conclusion: Where Do We Go from Here?James Milner, Megan Bradley,
and Blair Peruniak
List of ReferencesList of ContributorsIndex
"On the whole, what we have at hand is a great scholarly work that serves [as] a much needed and unique contribution to the literature that also helps enrich several relevant disciplines."
Megan Bradley is an associate professor in the Department of
Political Science and at the Institute for the Study of
International Development at McGill University.
James Milner is an associate professor in the Department of
Political Science at Carleton University.
Blair Peruniak is a doctoral candidate in the Department of
International Development at the University of Oxford.
On the whole, what we have at hand is a great scholarly work that
serves [as] a much needed and unique contribution to the literature
that also helps enrich several relevant disciplines.
*Nordic Journal of Migration Research*
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