A Preliminary Investigation into Private Refugee Sponsors

Do Princípio à Prática: um estudo sobre as políticas públicas para direitos humanos e o caso do refúgio no Canadá

“…A categoria SAH se refere a organizações com personalidade jurídica, já os Community Sponsors podem ser organizações, corporações ou associações. Organizações registradas como SAHs podem autorizar outros grupos (denominados Constituent Groups) a se tornarem patrocinadores sob a égide se seu próprio registro e atuar como intermediárias institucionais entre os patrocinadores e o governo (Macklin et al, 2018). Os Groups of Five são formados por cinco cidadãos ou residentes permanentes, existindo a possibilidade da realização de parcerias com outros indivíduos ou grupos autorizados pelo governo.Além de demonstrar capacidade de prover auxílio prático, um dos critérios para se tornar patrocinador é a demonstração da capacidade financeira de arcar coma totalidade dos custos 10 do reassentamento, estimados em $13.500 CAD para uma família de uma pessoa e $33.700 CAD para uma de seis membros (Canadá, 2018f).…”

Caring for Refugees: Questioning the Public-Private Dichotomy in Canadian Resettlement

“…As scholars have explained: "sponsors interact with refugees at the granular, quotidian level of daily life, but the possibility, structure, and terms of that relationship are set by government regulation." 246 Lim points out that even when sponsors are family members or friends of refugees, as is often the case in the PSR program, they simultaneously "act as agents of the state" and "by endowing private groups or individuals with legal sponsorship status, the state is essentially appointing them the executors of a central policy goal: ensuring that refugees are successfully resettled." 247 While not drawing on care ethics specifically, Enns reflects on how citizen involvement in refugee resettlement leads to greater responsibilities and relations of care:…”

Welcoming Refugees and the Virtue of Hospitality: An Analysis of Refugee Resettlement through Private Sponsorship in Small-Town Eastern Ontario

“…This means that it is committed to offer resettlement programs on a regular basis and aims to provide annual resettlement quotas. But it was only until the foundation of the Immigration Act of 1976 that the first provisions of private and government assisted refugee resettlement were enacted as official policies (Macklin, et al, 2018;Labman & Pearlman, 2018).…”

“…In fact, the creation of refugee resettlement programs in Canada was influenced by the Canadian publics' growing concern over human welfare in countries ravaged by conflict, and the response of hospitality efforts by civil society (Macklin, et al, 2018).…”

“…The philanthropic support for these initiatives shows that engaged Canadians were concerned with the refugee crisis in Europe. By the time Canada had signed the 1951 Convention and 1967 Protocol in June 1969, religious groups in particular had lobbied the Canadian government for official provisions to support individuals, groups and social agencies to sponsor refugees (Macklin, et al, 2018;Labman & Pearlman, 2018).…”