Developmental Humanitarianism, Resilience and (Dis)empowerment in a Syrian Refugee Camp

Pasha, Suraina

doi:10.1002/jid.3454

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“…Conversely, stressors entail long‐term, low magnitude events. Risks here include social discrimination, political oppression, economic hardship, and occupational stress (e.g., McNair et al, 2022; Pasha, 2020; Quétel et al, 2022; Wilcox & Lawson, 2018).…”

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Understanding resilience in sustainable development: Rallying call or siren song?

Park

2023

Sustainable Development

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This article asks how the concept of resilience has been used in development studies. Set amidst the rise of resilience in sustainable development, it offers insights for scholars and policymakers, alike. Sampling 419 journal articles from 2017 to 2022, it uses Kuhnian paradigms to analyse development knowledge production on resilience. This produces three key findings. First is the absence of a coherent resilience paradigm (with shared definitions, problems and methods) in development studies. Second is its use, instead, by incumbent development paradigms in piecemeal fashion to extend and/or repackage pre‐existing arguments. Third are ensuing possibilities for resilience as both a rallying call and siren song in sustainable development. Ultimately, resilience‐based research and policy discourses open vital space for collective action across interdisciplinary and international divides. However, a lack of critical awareness of its non‐uniform use can produce more harm than help. If the language of resilience is to advance collective prospects for development cooperation and climate action, then it will help to know precisely what we each are talking about.

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Understanding resilience in sustainable development: Rallying call or siren song?

Park

2023

Sustainable Development

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“…While humanitarianism has traditionally been conceptualized by critical scholars in terms of north‐to‐south flows of resources and intellectual expertise (e.g., Barnett, 2011), this contemporary case study highlights the practical effects of resilience and empowerment policies to build the capacities of Southern actors to take frontline positions in humanitarian responses (e.g., Fiddian‐Qasmiyeh, 2015; Hilhorst, 2018; Ilcan & Rygiel, 2015; Pasha, 2020). In this case, Jordanian leadership over the humanitarian response, as explicitly confirmed through the “Refugee and Resilience Response Plans” authored by the government with the support of UN agencies (e.g., Government of Jordan, 2018), has enabled the Jordanian government to inject its security priorities into the humanitarian sphere.…”

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Humanitarianism, securitization, and containment in Jordan's Za'atari Refugee Camp

Pasha

2021

British Journal of Sociology

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Through a case study on Za'atari, the largest Syrian refugee camp in Jordan, this paper critically explores a contemporary example of intersection between local and global humanitarian and securitization processes in refugee governance. The paper argues that Syrian refugees have been subjected to humanitarian care and securitized treatment, with their construction in terms of potential threat to State security interests spiking in correlation with insecurities over the expansion of the “Islamic State” (IS). The paper tracks the suit of measures implemented by the host Jordanian State, with the support of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), to produce docile refugee subjects of “humanitarian government” in a closed camp. It notes how the UNHCR invariably augments and extends the remit of Jordanian State power at the expense of refugee rights, in the name of ensuring refugee and aid worker security and the effectiveness of the aid operation. The camp plays a critical role in a performative politics of containment targeting local and global audiences.

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“…A refugee camp is an 'exceptional' space existing outside the formal political order and the practical remit of rights; in them, refugees depend on the compassionate charity of strangers and lack avenues to enforce and realise their rights claims Seen from this perspective, expecting refugees to patiently endure a long-term liminal existence in camps, thus prolonging their dislocation from effective citizenship, only produces depoliticised and disempowered refugee subjects. [41] 1.2.4. Intersectionality Finally, intersectionality implies awareness of identity characteristics, such as race, gender and sexual orientation, and the privileges or oppression these characteristics can represent [42].…”

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Exploring Syrian Refugees’ Access to Medical and Social Support Services Using a Trauma-Informed Analytic Framework

Moayerian

Stephenson

Karaki

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IJERPH

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Even after arrival in new countries, refugees may be exposed to traumatic events. This state is exacerbated by contextual stressors, including the resettlement process, asylum proceedings and threats of deportation. This paper is rooted in a trauma-informed framework. We interviewed 16 male Syrian refugee migrant workers employed on a Jordanian farm during crop harvesting season to explore the quality and level of medical care and mental health services they received in light of the framework’s principal dimensions (e.g., safety, trust, intersectionality). We found that this vulnerable group of individuals is living a marginal and marginalized existence and depends on the goodwill of the growers for whom they work to treat them with a modicum of dignity and respect. Second, their itinerancy makes it difficult for this population to take advantage of available medical and mental health services at the nation’s major refugee camps. Finally, our interlocutors preferred their current lives, as isolating and limiting as they are, as superior to full-time residence in the camps, because they perceive their present way of life as according a measure of dignity, self-direction and autonomy they could not enjoy in the camps.

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Developmental Humanitarianism, Resilience and (Dis)empowerment in a Syrian Refugee Camp

Cited by 8 publications

References 25 publications

Understanding resilience in sustainable development: Rallying call or siren song?

Understanding resilience in sustainable development: Rallying call or siren song?

Humanitarianism, securitization, and containment in Jordan's Za'atari Refugee Camp

Exploring Syrian Refugees’ Access to Medical and Social Support Services Using a Trauma-Informed Analytic Framework

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