The Ethics and Practice of Refugee Repatriation

Gerver, Mollie

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“…Th e literature on the return of "unwanted migrants" is geographically fragmented. While studies on cases in the Global North focus on the deportation and readmission of individual rejected asylum seekers (Walters et al 2021;Sökefeld 2019), those on the Global South examine larger repatriation operations (Crisp and Long 2016;Gerver 2018). In addition, while it is assumed that liberal states in the Global North work within the limits of the rule of law, Global South countries rely on either informal methods or international organizations like the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) to eff ectuate returns.…”

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The Institutionalization of “Voluntary” Returns in Turkey

Mencütek

2022

Migration and Society

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The increasing salience and variations of “voluntary” return techniques have not yet been thoroughly investigated in the context of Global South countries, which host the majority of displaced people. As the largest refugee host and transit country, the case of Turkey provides important insights on the role that these instruments and the very notion of “voluntariness” play for migration governance. This article specifically looks at how Turkey develops and implements its own “voluntary return” instruments. The analysis illustrates different ways in which “voluntary” returns are being institutionalized at central state and substate levels across the country. It shows how these national mechanisms are imposed at multiple sites, while also being diffused as practices in everyday interactions with refugees across the country. The arguments I put forward arise from qualitative research that combined mapping of policy papers, national legislation, and interviews with returnees and other relevant stakeholders.

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The Institutionalization of “Voluntary” Returns in Turkey

Mencütek

2022

Migration and Society

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“…and (2) why do states have obligations to assist the refugees? The first debate considers to whom states have these more stringent obligations, with some focusing on broad criteria such as human rights protection or violations of basic safety (Carens 2013;Gerver 2018;Gibney 2004;Miller 2016;Shacknove 1985;Song 2019) and others defending the Geneva convention's emphasis on persecution (Cherem 2016;Price 2009). The second debate concerns how we should ground state's obligations to refugees: through duties of rescue (Gibney 2004), duties of legitimacy (Brock 2020;Owen 2020), or duties of reparation (Souter 2014).…”

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Sanctuary after Asylum: Addressing a Gap in the Political Theory of Refuge

Ritholtz

Buxton

2022

Am Polit Sci Rev

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This research note argues that political theorists of refuge ought to consider the experiences of refugees after they have received asylum in the Global North. Currently, much of the literature concerning the duties of states toward refugees implicitly adopts a blanket approach, rather than considering how varied identities may affect the remedies available to displaced people. Given the prevalence of racism, xenophobia, and homophobia in the Global North, and the growing norm of dissident persecution in foreign territory, protection is not guaranteed after either territorial or legal admission. This research note considers the case of LGBTQ refugees in order to demonstrate the analytical potential of more inclusive and diverse normative approaches. Taking the origin and extension of harm seriously requires a conceptualization of sanctuary after asylum that accurately reflects the experiences of the displaced. In doing so, questions arise regarding the nature and efficacy of territorial asylum.

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“…In political theory and in sociology in general, proposals have been made to bridge this gap between the normative and the empirical. On the one hand, theorists import empirical methods within normative reasoning (Baub€ ock, 2008;Cabrera, 2010;Doty, 2009;Gerver, 2018;Longo, 2017;Tonkiss, 2013) and insist on the relevance of their approach for more positivist inquiries (Barry, 2002;Gerring and Yesnowitz, 2006;Shapiro, 2002), especially when it comes to a highly politicized and morally loaded issue such as migration (Carens, 2018). Recent methodological studies have described how to do 'qualitative political theory' (Cabrera, 2009), political theory 'in an ethnographic key' (Longo and Zacka, 2019) or 'grounded normative theory' (Ackerly et al, 2021) that would be informed by empirical data and more inclusive of 'what people think ' (de Shalit, 2020).…”

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Migration and the critique of ‘state thought’: Abdelmalek Sayad as a political theorist

Boudou

2021

European Journal of Political Theory

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This article argues for reading the Algerian-French sociologist Abdelmalek Sayad (1933–1998) as a political theorist of migration. Various contributions have recently called to move away from the court-like assessment of claims by host states and foreigners and to engage more frankly with empirical work more attentive to concrete experiences and power relations. I contend that Sayad’s sociological work constitutes a substantial empirical and normative resource for ethical and political theory of migration, pointing to the persistence of ‘state thought’ and presenting original normative perspectives on emigration, inclusion in democracy, naturalization or postcolonial relationships. Such a reading of Sayad from a political theory perspective would then constitute a prime example of the cross-fertilization of empirical and normative approaches.

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The Ethics and Practice of Refugee Repatriation

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The Institutionalization of “Voluntary” Returns in Turkey

The Institutionalization of “Voluntary” Returns in Turkey

Sanctuary after Asylum: Addressing a Gap in the Political Theory of Refuge

Migration and the critique of ‘state thought’: Abdelmalek Sayad as a political theorist

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