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Elusive Refuge: Chinese Migrants in the Cold War, by Laura Madokoro
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Elusive Refuge: Chinese Migrants in the Cold War
by Laura Madokoro
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2016, pp. 33
Refuge 33.2 General Issue (accessible print version)
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Accommodating Asylum Seekers and Refugees in Indonesia: From Immigration Detention to Containment in “Alternatives to Detention”
Get PDFConsidered the last ‘stepping stone’ before Australia, Indonesia plays an important role in immobilising secondary movements of asylum seekers and refugees in Southeast Asia. While migration scholarship has dedicated substantial attention to immigration detention and the deplorable living conditions inside immigration detention centres (IDCs), this article explores “alternatives to detention” (ATD) in two Indonesian localities: the city of Makassar and the province of Aceh. Seeking to contribute to a critical examination of ATD more generally, this article examines individual freedom, mobility, mechanisms of care and aid provision, protection of rights, self-determination, and matters of personal safety. The article illustrates the remaining limitations and the lack of rights that asylum seekers and refugees in Indonesia continue to face outside of IDCs. A durable solution, in the form of integration, is not available to asylum seekers and refugees, as they are prevented from integrating into the local host societies, and their social and economic mobility remains widely restricted. Yet at the same time, despite more physical mobility in ATD, asylum seekers and refugees remain contained within Indonesia as their onward movement remains deterred as well.Considérée comme le dernier tremplin vers l’Australie, l’Indonésie joue un rôle important pour bloquer les mouvements secondaires des demandeurs d’asile et des réfugiés en Asie du Sud-Est. Tandis que les études sur la migration se sont beaucoup focalisées sur la la détention des immigrants et les conditions de vie déplorables dans les les centres de détention des immigrants (CDI), cet article explore des alternatives à la détention (AD) à deux endroits d’Indonésie: la ville de Makassar et la province d’Aceh. À des fins plus générales de contribution critique sur les CDI, il étudie la liberté individuelle, la mobilité, les mécanismes de soins et les dispositions d’aides, la protection des droits, l’autodétermination, et les questions de sécurité personnelle. Il illustre enfin les limites persistantes et le manque de droits auxquels font toujours face, en Indonésie, les demandeurs d’asile et les réfugiés à l’extérieur des CDI. Du fait qu’on les empêche de s’intégrer aux sociétés hôtes locales et que leur mobilité sociale et économique est extrêmement limitée, on ne leur offre pas de solution durable sous la forme d’une intégration. En dépit d’une certaine mobilité physique dans le cadre des AD, les demandeurs d’asile et les réfugiés restent confinés à l’intérieur de l’Indonésie du fait qu’on les décourage également d’aller de l’avant
Considérations en matière d’éthique de la recherche auprès de personnes en situation de migration forcée
Get PDFResearch can contribute to a better understanding of the experience of people in situations of forced migration and thus support the development of relevant policies and programs; however this research can also constrain and cause prejudices for the respondents [1] looking. In forced migration situations, the stakes are high due to the precarious legal status of respondents, unequal power relations, the wide reach of anti-terrorism laws and the criminalization of migration.In response to this situation, the Canadian Council for Refugees, the Center for Refugee Studies at York University and the Canadian Association for Refugee and Forced Migration Studies (ACERMF) have worked together to develop specific ethical considerations for research with people in forced migration situations. These considerations complement existing ethical principles. They are of interest to all those who participate in the collection of information - in an academic or community setting - and to those who take part in the research. This document presents our guiding principles as well as the ethical concepts of free and informed consent, privacy and cost-benefit analysis.
[1] This document recognizes that power relations are inseparable from the process of facilitating meaningful participation; the term respondent here refers to people who provide information in the context of the research. Some ethics documents use the term human subject .
In this document, the masculine (singular or plural) is used as a representative of all genders, for the sole purpose of lightening the text.Research can contribute to a better understanding of the experience of people in situations of forced migration and thus support the development of relevant policies and programs; however this research can also constrain and cause prejudices for the respondents [1] looking. In forced migration situations, the stakes are high due to the precarious legal status of respondents, unequal power relations, the wide reach of anti-terrorism laws and the criminalization of migration.In response to this situation, the Canadian Council for Refugees, the Center for Refugee Studies at York University and the Canadian Association for Refugee and Forced Migration Studies (ACERMF) have worked together to develop specific ethical considerations for research with people in forced migration situations. These considerations complement existing ethical principles. They are of interest to all those who participate in the collection of information - in an academic or community setting - and to those who take part in the research. This document presents our guiding principles as well as the ethical concepts of free and informed consent, privacy and cost-benefit analysis.
[1] This document recognizes that power relations are inseparable from the process of facilitating meaningful participation; the term respondent here refers to people who provide information in the context of the research. Some ethics documents use the term human subject .
In this document, the masculine (singular or plural) is used as a representative of all genders, for the sole purpose of lightening the text
Discretion to Deport: Intersections between Health and Detention of Syrian Refugees in Jordan
Get PDFDetention and deportation of migrants is a clear performance of state sovereignty that relies on discretionary practices and policies. The ongoing conflict in Syria highlights the strain and social disruption in neighbouring countries that host the majority of the world’s Syrian refugees. This article looks at Jordan’s policies to detain and deport Syrian refugees. Documented reasons for detention and deportations include work permit infractions, including the deportation of Syrian doctors and medical practitioners, as well as deportations for communicable diseases. Detention and deportation policies in Jordan are highly discretionary, making interventions and advocacy on behalf of those detained difficult. Detention and deportation can also have disproportionate impact on populations that are already marginalized, including members of the LGBTI community, survivors of sexual and gender-based violence, and those engaged in sex work.La détention et la déportation des migrants constituent de manière évidente une conduite de souveraineté étatique basée sur des politiques et des pratiques discrétionnaires. Le conflit actuel en Syrie éclaire les tensions et les perturbations sociales dans les pays voisins, qui hébergent la majorité des réfugiés syriens du monde. Cet article examine les politiques jordaniennes de détention et de déportation des réfugiés syriens. Les motifs documentés de détention et de déportations comportent les infractions de permis de travail, y compris la déportation de médecins et de praticiens médicaux syriens, ainsi que les déportations motivées par des maladies transmissibles. En Jordanie, les politiques de détention et de déportation sont très discrétionnaires, ce qui rend difficiles les interventions et la défense des droits des personnes détenues. La détention et la déportation peuvent également toucher de manière exagérée des populations déjà marginalisées, y compris les membres des communautés LGBTA, les survivants à des violences sexuelles et sexistes, et les personnes pratiquant le travail du sexe
Power and Responsibility at the Margins: The Case of India in the Global Refugee Regime
Get PDFBased on a study of the Indian experience of refugee protection, the article poses the issue of responsibility as a critical counterpoint to the question of power. Power may produce influence and power may be an element of influence. But how do we relate power to responsibility? Given the dominant discourse of “responsibility to protect” as part of the global governance regime, the article asks if there is a different way to conceptualize responsibility in the post-colonial context. Here the article seeks to make a second intervention. Responsibility takes us to the perspective of the margins.À partir d’une étude de l’expérience indienne relative à la protection des réfugiés, l’article pose le problème de la responsabilité comme contrepoint crucial à la question du pouvoir. Le pouvoir peut être influent ou être un élément d’influence. Mais comment faisons-nous le lien entre pouvoir et responsabilité? Étant donné le discours dominant de « responsabilité à préserver » dans le cadre du régime de gouvernance internationale, cet article pose la question de savoir s’il existe une autre manière de conceptualiser le problème de la responsabilité dans le contexte postcolonial. C’est à ce niveau qu’il cherche à faire une seconde intervention. La responsabilité nous amène à la perspective de la marge
Congolese Social Networks: Living on the Margins in Muizenberg, Cape Town, by Joy Owen
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Congolese Social Networks: Living on the Margins in Muizenberg, Cape Town
Joy Owen
Lanham, md: Lexington Books, 2015, p. 27
Human Rights and Refugee Protest against Immigration Detention: Refugees’ Struggles for Recognition as Human
Get PDFWhen detainees go on hunger strike or riot or occupy the roofs of detention centres, their actions are usually narrated by governments keen to discredit them and their actions as criminal and manipulative and evidence of their barbarity and difference. A secondary, counter-narration is provided by detainee supporters who explain the actions as evidence of detainees’ distress and deteriorating mental health. The voices of the actors themselves, people held in detention and taking protest action, are rarely heard in depth. Drawing on in-depth interviews with refugees formerly held in Australian immigration detention centres, and the works of Hannah Arendt, this article argues that the experience of immigration detention is fundamentally dehumanizing and that while detainee protest was aimed at attaining certain material outcomes, it also served important existential functions. The fact of protest was a rejection of a powerless state, a way for detained refugees to experience their own agency and, with it, restoration of some of the “essential characteristics of human life” and a means to use their reduction to “bare humanity” as a basis for insisting upon a place in the polis.Lorsque ceux qui sont détenus s’engagent dans des grèves de faim ou des émeutes, ou encore occupent le toit des centres de détention, leurs actions sont reformulées par des gouvernements, motivés par le désir de les dénigrer, en récits qui mettent en évidence leur prétendue criminalité, leur volonté manipulatrice, leur barbarie et leur différence. Un deuxième courant qui va à l’encontre de ces récits est véhiculé par les sympathisants des détenus, et consiste à montrer que leurs actions découlent de la détresse qu’ils ressentent et de la détérioration de leur santé mentale. Cependant les voix des actants eux-mêmes, notamment ceux qui sont détenus et s’engagent dans des actions de contestation, se font rarement entendre d’une manière significative. En se basant sur des entrevues en profondeur avec des réfugiés détenus antérieurement dans des centres de détention pour immigrés en Australie, ainsi que sur l’oeuvre de Hannah Arendt, cet article avance que l’expérience de la détention d’immigration est profondément déshumanisante, et que les actes de contestation de la part des détenus, bien qu’ils visaient dans un premier temps certains objectifs matériels, remplissaient également des fonctions existentielles importantes. Le fait de contestation représentait le rejet d’un état d’impuissance, un moyen par lequel les réfugiés détenus pouvaient ressentir leur propre volonté d’action, et conséquemment, un rétablissement de certaines « caractéristiques essentielles de la vie humaine » (“essential characteristics of human life”). C’était également une façon de se servir de leur réduction à un état d’humanité dénudée (“bare humanity”) pour insister sur leur place dans le polis ou communauté politique dans lequel ils se trouvaient
The Agendas of Tibetan Refugees: Survival Strategies of a Government-in-Exile in a World of Transnational Organizations, by Thomas Kauffmann
Get PDFThe Agendas of Tibetan Refugees: Survival Strategies of a Government-in-Exile in a World of Transnational Organizationsby Thomas Kauffmann
New York: Berghahn, 2015, pp. 22
Refuge 32.1 Special Issue: Refugee Voices (accessible print version)
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