Fleeing mass starvation: what we (do not) know about the famine–migration nexus

Sadliwala, Batul K.

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“…And third, that resilience requires people to stay in one place. The literature on migration, however, shows that the links among development, food insecurity and famine are complex and vary according to nature and reasons for migration (Carling and Talleraas, 2016; Sadliwala, 2019). Forced migration may be a response to ongoing attack and persecution, and thus little affected by material aid (Jaspars and Buchanan-Smith, 2018), and for pastoralists migration is a key aspect of adaptation to climate variability (Young and Ismail, 2019).…”

Section: Creating a Fantasy: The Function And Dangers Of Regimes Of Untruthsmentioning

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Protracted crisis, food security and the fantasy of resilience in Sudan

Jaspars

2020

Security Dialogue

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In the past decade, food security and nutrition practices have become central in the promotion of resilience in protracted crises. Such approaches have been welcomed by the aid community because of their potential for linking relief and development. Social and political analysts, however, have criticized resilience approaches for failing to consider power relations and because they entail an acceptance of crisis or repeated risk. In this context, regimes of food security and nutrition practices have become increasingly targeted, privatized and medicalized, focussing on individual behaviour and responsibility rather than responsibility of the state or international actors. This article uses examples from Sudan to examine how and why the resilience ‘regime of practices’ has functioned as a form of neoliberal governmentality, and argues that it has created a fantasy in which conflict in Darfur is invisible. This allowed food aid to be withdrawn and removed the need for protection despite ongoing conflict and threats to livelihoods; thus crisis-affected populations have been abandoned.

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Section: Creating a Fantasy: The Function And Dangers Of Regimes Of Untruthsmentioning

confidence: 99%