The Local Production of Asylum

Hinger, Sophie; Schäfer, Philipp; Pott, Andreas

doi:10.1093/jrs/few029

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“…As has been indicated by Hinger et al, a better understanding of the local responses to migration and settlement can be key to identifying and acting upon various divergences in coordination (Hinger et al, ). Local governments have been the focus of some comparative research in Europe in shaping relationships between resident populations and newcomers in the establishment of migrant advisory bodies, local regulations and resource allocation (Alexander, ).…”

Section: Prolonged Refugee Stay and The Role Of Municipalities On Locmentioning

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The Impact of GCR on Local Governments and Syrian Refugees in Turkey

Kale

Erdoğan

2019

International Migration

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In the last couple of years, more than 3.6 million Syrian refugees have been hosted under the “temporary protection” scheme in Turkey. Despite these high numbers Turkey did not have a centralized refugee settlement and integration policy. As a result, various stakeholders including local governments have played critical roles in providing refugee assistance services. This research looks at the role of local governments in delivering services evolving from emergency response to local integration. This article argues that this role with respect to the United Nations’ Global Compact on Refugees (GCR) has to be further strengthened. The data for this research were collected through a comprehensive study based on interviews and surveys carried out in İstanbul with local authorities, İstanbul Metropolitan Municipality, and its 39 district municipalities in 2016‐2017. Although this research has its focus on İstanbul as the selected case study, the findings can reveal conclusions relevant to global implications and perspectives.

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Section: Prolonged Refugee Stay and The Role Of Municipalities On Locmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Impact of GCR on Local Governments and Syrian Refugees in Turkey

Kale

Erdoğan

2019

International Migration

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“…The elasticity of legal frameworks that encompass soft and hard laws point to larger issues with a focus on legal regimes: too often, refugee governance is not simply a matter of laws on the books, but consists of an assemblage of laws and practices, NGO procedures and unwritten custom, personal decisions and media depictions. As Hinger et al (, p. 453) write, asylum seekers exist within a “place‐specific process‐structure and socio‐political order which encompasses much more than local politics”, what they term a “landscape of asylum”. I build on this understanding to consider the landscapes of protection more broadly in both the Thai and UK context, extending beyond asylum to look at the varieties of practices and policies that shape protection, both formal and otherwise, for refugees.…”

Section: Landscapes Of Protection: Ad Hoc and Arbitrarymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Landscapes of protection encompass geographies both above and below the nation‐state, extending vertically, as Hinger et al. () note, to include supra‐local influences such as regional or international agreements, as well as accounting for both formal policies, everyday practices and the affective climates that infuse refugees’ lives with precariousness from negative media coverage, hostile rumour or exploitation. A focus on the landscape rather than simply the laws governing protection highlights the roles of procedures and soft laws that work within existing legal formations to limit protection for refugees.…”

Section: Landscapes Of Protection: Ad Hoc and Arbitrarymentioning

confidence: 99%

Landscapes of refugee protection

Coddington

2018

Trans Inst British Geog

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In this paper, I argue that conditions for asylum seekers in countries that have signed the 1951 Convention and 1967 Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees (hereafter “Convention”) are increasingly paralleling those in non‐signatory countries. The similar deterioration of treatment of asylum seekers is symptomatic of the disintegration of the existing refugee protection system established by the Convention. This paper focuses on the case of Thailand, a non‐signatory country that has been widely criticised for its treatment of refugees, and compares three significant trends in refugee protection with those in the UK. In Thailand as well as the UK, protection takes shape as ad hoc, arbitrary and differentially applied across space, leading to extreme precariousness. Two concepts frame my comparison of the Thai and UK contexts: the landscapes of protection that encompass the range of practices engaged in refugee governance, from signed treaties to soft laws, subcontracted service providers and substandard media coverage; and the graduated levels of protection that rely on spatial logics to manage access to protection and shape both refugees’ imagined futures as well as their present status. This comparison challenges the implicit distinctions between developed and developing countries, as well as signatories and non‐signatories to the Convention, that have predominated in refugee scholarship, and extends recent scholarship that deconstructs the coherence and authority of the nation state. I conclude that these presumed divisions are not only inaccurate, but mask the precarious and dangerous realities that asylum seekers and refugees face in both locations. Increasingly, the protections offered by the Convention have become a façade for arbitrary and harmful treatment of refugees.

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“…A better understanding of the local responses to migration and institutional contexts of settlement is key to identifying and acting upon gaps in coordination and other potential problems (Hinger et al. ).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

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The role of local government in migrant and refugee settlement in regional and rural Australia

Boese

Phillips

2017

Aust J Social Issues

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Government responsibility for the settlement of newly arrived refugees and migrants in Australia is shared between the federal, state and local levels. While Australia's settlement policies are predominantly top-down and Commonwealth driven with some state involvement, local government has the potential to play a greater role in facilitating the settlement of newly arrived migrants and refugees. A growing body of literature in Australia and overseas highlights the role of local-level policies in supporting integration and social cohesion, which is arguably even more crucial in the context of migrant and refugee settlement in regional and rural areas. This paper draws on focus groups with 90 local stakeholders in eight local government areas in Victoria to propose a typology of local government involvement that shows the variable but potentially significant role of local government in the regional and rural settlement of recent arrivals. We argue that Australia's over 560 local governments provide crucial but underutilised governance resources for improving the settlement process. This finding has implications for settlement policies and funding, intergovernmental coordination, and the retention of migrants and refugees in regional and rural communities in Australia. K E Y W O R D Sintergovernmental coordination, local government, migrants, refugees, regional and rural, settlement

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The Local Production of Asylum

Cited by 67 publications

References 15 publications

The Impact of GCR on Local Governments and Syrian Refugees in Turkey

The Impact of GCR on Local Governments and Syrian Refugees in Turkey

Landscapes of refugee protection

The role of local government in migrant and refugee settlement in regional and rural Australia

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