Refugee Dignity in Protracted Exile

Rights, Capabilities and Legal Empowerment

Anna Lise Purkey (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

220 Seiten

2021
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-08288-2 (ISBN)

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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.

Anna Lise Purkey is Summer Course Director and Senior Research Associate at the Centre for Refugee Studies at York University, Toronto

Introduction 1. The Exclusion of Long-term Refugees from the Law: Creating Situations of Protracted Rights-"less"-ness 2. The State-Refugee Fiduciary Relationship: The Legal Obligation to Secure Human Rights-based Capabilities 3. A Challenge to Power: Legal Empowerment as an Enabling Central Capability 4. The Faces of Legal Empowerment in Protracted Refugee Situations 5. Critical Engagement: Adopting a Participatory Approach to Legal Empowerment Conclusion

Erscheinungsdatum	03.08.2021
Reihe/Serie	Routledge Studies in Development, Displacement and Resettlement
Zusatzinfo	1 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	322 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-10	1-032-08288-7 / 1032082887
ISBN-13	978-1-032-08288-2 / 9781032082882
Zustand	Neuware