Refugee Protection Meets Migration Management: UNHCR as a Global Police of Populations

Scheel, Stephan; Ratfisch, Philipp

doi:10.1080/1369183x.2013.855074

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“…More significantly, the UNHCR's claim to act as an intermediary between states and refugees became questioned through the protest (cf. Scheel and Ratfisch 2014).…”

Section: In the Spaces Of Settlement: Territories And Roadsmentioning

confidence: 95%

Notes from a refugee protest: ambivalences of resisting and desiring citizenship

Erensu

2016

Citizenship Studies

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“…More significantly, the UNHCR's claim to act as an intermediary between states and refugees became questioned through the protest (cf. Scheel and Ratfisch 2014).…”

Section: In the Spaces Of Settlement: Territories And Roadsmentioning

confidence: 95%

Notes from a refugee protest: ambivalences of resisting and desiring citizenship

Erensu

2016

Citizenship Studies

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“…This shift contributed to controlling migration possibilities (for example, Johnson ) and refugee movements within, and beyond, refugee camps (for example, Branch ; Ilcan, Oliver and Connoy ). Both the emergence of a comprehensive approach to “migration management,” as advocated by the IOM and others (see Scheel and Ratfisch ), and current UN policy developments, such as the Cluster Approach and Transformative Agenda, are shaping resiliency humanitarianism.…”

Section: Managing Refugee Camps Through Humanitarian Emergency Governmentioning

confidence: 99%

“Resiliency Humanitarianism”: Responsibilizing Refugees through Humanitarian Emergency Governance in the Camp

2015

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Scholarly interest in the camp has grown over recent years, inspired in part by Giorgio Agamben's (1995; Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life) work. Scholarship in this area has built on Agamben's view of the camp as an abject space of exception and bare life but also, in reaction to this view, has theorized the camp as a political and social space which constitutes refugees and displaced persons as political subjects, active in demanding rights and social justice. Building on existing scholarship, this article draws attention to another important trend in the camp which has emerged alongside the growing activism of refugee populations, dissatisfied with their lack of rights and abject conditions. This is the trend of engaging refugees to become self‐governing in the management of the camp, to think of the camp in terms of community development, with camp life providing the experiences through which refugees are to refashion themselves as resilient, entrepreneurial subjects. Our analysis examines this trend through the issue of humanitarian emergency governance of refugees and IDPs and within the context of reforms undertaken by the United Nations—specifically, through what we term “resiliency humanitarianism.” We use this term to suggest a particular rationale of care, camp coordination, and management which emerges within neoliberal government and which focuses on assisting refugees and IDPs to adapt to, and survive, crisis with the aim of responsibilizing them.

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“…What needs to be clarified is that the present situation, which we might call a “challenge to the right to asylum”, is structurally redefining “migration management discourse” (Scheel and Ratfisch ). It is in this context that this paper argues for the urgent need to reclaim and defend the right to asylum.…”

Section: Introduction: Why Talking About the Right To Asylum? Some Nementioning

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Human Rights Beyond Humanitarianism: The Radical Challenge to the Right to Asylum in the Mediterranean Zone

Sciurba

Furri

2017

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This article argues for a new centrality of the right to asylum within the Mediterranean zone and the necessity to defend and implement this right beyond the "humanitarian regime". The first section describes the ways in which humanitarianism's logic has weakened the right to asylum through the implementation of specific EU migration policies since 2013. The second section focuses on the distinction between such a humanitarian regime and the human rights system, assessing the possibility of and necessity for a renewed defense of human rights, starting with the right to asylum. The third section focuses on the Charter of Lampedusa, a radical, alternative normative instrument developed through a grassroots process which involved activists and migrant rights groups and which represents a concrete illustration of how the horizon of human rights might be redefined.

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Refugee Protection Meets Migration Management: UNHCR as a Global Police of Populations

Cited by 77 publications

References 24 publications

Notes from a refugee protest: ambivalences of resisting and desiring citizenship

Notes from a refugee protest: ambivalences of resisting and desiring citizenship

“Resiliency Humanitarianism”: Responsibilizing Refugees through Humanitarian Emergency Governance in the Camp

Human Rights Beyond Humanitarianism: The Radical Challenge to the Right to Asylum in the Mediterranean Zone

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