The Concept of Internal Displacement and the Case for Internally Displaced Persons as a Category of Concern

Mooney, Erin

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“…7 As IDPs (internally displaced people) the community's rights were equally ambiguous. The definition of IDPs is in itself descriptive rather than legal (as opposed to the term 'refugee') and a special legal status for IDPs has been denied on the basis that they are entitled to the same rights as citizens or permanent residents of the state in which they have been displaced (Mooney, 2005;Brun, 2003;Barutciski, 1998). But, as the situation in Bengal reveals, very often this is patently not the case.…”

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Subjectivity and Citizenship: Intersections of Space, Ethnicity and Identity Among the Urdu-Speaking Minority in Bangladesh

Redclift

2010

Int. Migration & Integration

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The paper examines understandings of citizenship and ethnic identification among the 'Urdu-speaking linguistic minority' in Bangladesh, addressing three key areas of debate. First, it explores the relationship between the material institution of citizenship and conditions of (physical) integration/segregation. Second, it attempts to unpick the intimate connection between that material institution and the ethnic and national identities of individuals. Finally, it investigates a dissonance discovered between the bureaucratic state recognition of citizenship and imaginations of that status among interviewees, the 'identities of citizenship' occupied at the local level. The paper demonstrates the significance of subject positionality, economies of power and the 'dialogic' nature of ethnic identity formation, and Victoria Redclift 2 discusses the complex emotional ordering of belonging they collectively construct. 1

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Subjectivity and Citizenship: Intersections of Space, Ethnicity and Identity Among the Urdu-Speaking Minority in Bangladesh

Redclift

2010

Int. Migration & Integration

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“…102 Another reason that IDPs may be missing from the dominant security narratives is because there is no consensus on what this category means, who should be included and when internal displacement ends. 103 Depending on which definition is put into use, people who are internally displaced share certain family resemblances with migrants and refuges. Indeed, they can be labelled as 'internal refugees' or 'economic migrants'.…”

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In the name of (de)securitization: Speaking security to protect migrants, refugees and internally displaced persons?

Donnelly¹

2017

Int. rev. Red Cross

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A guiding concern of this article is to examine how the protection of migrants, refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs) is being spoken about and framed. Today it is evident that the dominant responses of sovereign States to each of these groups is heavily reliant on the language of security and (de)securitization. Indeed, this article openly conceptualizes ongoing attempts to protect migrants, refugees and IDPs as a series of overlapping (de)the language games of (de)securitization are not identical when it comes to protecting different groups. Third, using securitization as the theoretical point of departure provides a timely reminder that the three discursive labels under consideration are not guaranteed to apply. .Quite the reverse. As will be seen below, the adoption of each linguistic label -migrant, refugee, IDP -is subject to and dependent upon audience acceptance. Remembering the latter dimension is imperative to fully comprehend ongoing contestations over how to respond to people moving in search of security.The remainder of this article is divided into six sections. The first section is devoted to exploring how agents are speaking security to frame migrants, refugees and IDPs. To get to the crux of these narratives, however, it may be necessary to move beyond discussions of 'security unbound' and catastrophic crises. 9 Section two outlines the securitization framework created When readers see (de)securitization in the text they should take it is an indication that the author means both securitization and desecuritization. 8 The concept of a 'game' has multiple meanings in securitization studies. This article draws directly on Ludwig Wittgenstein's language game approach when it employs this term. 9 Within International Relations and critical security studies there is singular consensus on what 'speaking security' means. Given than security is a contested term, there is no single way to speak security. As I show in Section 1, some scholar suggest that speaking security pertains to an unbound set of practices whilst others think that it pertains to catastrophic crises. In this article, my focus on 'speaking security' stems in part from the emphasis that the Copenhagen School and their securitization framework place on the role of speech acts in the social construction of security. I also adopt this grammar to explore how agents speak security during ongoing and entangled language games, as well as in wider contexts. The latter point echoes claims made by second generation 4 by the Copenhagen School and amended by 'second generation' scholars to demonstrate the power of security speech, moves and practices. The next three sections are dedicated to exploring how migrants, refugees and IDPs are (de)securitized. The third section questions the promise of using securitization as an analytical lens for mapping varied patterns of migration.Using this discussion as a springboard, section four scrutinizes whether the securitization of migration informs how refugees are labelled, treated and p...

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“…It is widely accepted that internally displaced or relocated people are highly vulnerable to shocks in their new environment (Ayata & Yükseker, 2005;Mooney, 2005). However, the EIA reports of both projects failed to capture either the existing vulnerability or the changed vulnerability of the affected group.…”

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Effectiveness of Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) in addressing development-induced disasters: a comparison of the EIA processes of Sri Lanka and New Zealand

2015

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of a thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy. There is an on-going exponential increase in development-induced disasters globally, especially in low and middle-income countries. This upward trend in the occurrence of development-induced disasters challenges sustainable development efforts. It has been generally accepted that instruments such as an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) reduce disaster risks of development projects. The Hyogo Framework for Action (HFA) for disaster risk reduction promotes using EIAs to address the disaster risk of development projects. Over 65 percent of the countries that have met the HFA progress-reporting obligation in the 2009-2011 reporting cycle, state that disaster risks of development projects are addressed by implementing EIA. However, the claims that EIA processes effectively address disaster risks have yet to be demonstrated empirically. It is clear that successful implementation of EIA processes also depends on the level of governance quality existing in a particular country. It is suggested that a well-conceived EIA process should reflect many of the elements of good governance principles including transparency, sufficient information flows, accountability, and stakeholder participation. Quality governance, therefore, is considered as having a direct bearing on why impact assessments in some countries are performing better than others. AbstractThe influence of governance quality on the effectiveness of EIAs can be addressed by comparing the EIA processes of two or more countries with different levels of governance quality. In this research, the effectiveness of the EIA process in addressing development-induced disasters is evaluated by comparing the EIA processes of Sri Lanka and New Zealand. These two countries have quite different governance quality ratings and, therefore, offer a test of the influence of governance characteristics on EIA processes in addressing disaster risks.iv In order to evaluate the effectiveness of the EIA processes of the above countries, a set of evaluation criteria was identified, mostly from existing literature. Eight criteria were specifically developed for this research. Data for the research were collected from in-depth interviews using a semi-structured questionnaire and focus group discussions with interviewees selected on the basis of their role, knowledge and expertise of the EIA process. Documents from both state and non-state actors relevant to the EIA process were also analyzed. Several recently conducted development projects in each country were used as cases to understand how the legislation is used in practice.It is clear that explicit reference to disaster risk is absent in environmental management policies in both Sri Lanka and New Zealand. Even though the New Zealand EIA process has a higher procedural and contextual effectiveness than Sri Lanka, both countries have lower levels of substantive effectiveness. Neither of the two EIA processes is found to be ef...

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The Concept of Internal Displacement and the Case for Internally Displaced Persons as a Category of Concern

Cited by 114 publications

References 7 publications

Subjectivity and Citizenship: Intersections of Space, Ethnicity and Identity Among the Urdu-Speaking Minority in Bangladesh

Subjectivity and Citizenship: Intersections of Space, Ethnicity and Identity Among the Urdu-Speaking Minority in Bangladesh

In the name of (de)securitization: Speaking security to protect migrants, refugees and internally displaced persons?

Effectiveness of Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) in addressing development-induced disasters: a comparison of the EIA processes of Sri Lanka and New Zealand

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