Unlocking Protracted Displacement: An Iraqi Case Study

Chatty, Dawn; Mansour, N. S.

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“…Much less attention, however, has been given to situations of internal displacement. A project focusing on 'unlocking' protracted displacement (Bradley 2011;Chatty and Mansour 2011;Lindley 2011;Zetter 2011) discusses the relationship between durable solutions, policies, and the ways in which displaced populations cope with protracted displacement. From this research, Zetter (2011: 9) concludes that "[p]rolonged displacement is often accepted, albeit reluctantly, as a semi-permanent state of affairs and durable solutions implicitly suggest a fixed, 'end-state' solution.…”

Section: Protracted Displacementmentioning

confidence: 99%

Active Waiting and Changing Hopes: Toward a Time Perspective on Protracted Displacement

Brun¹

2015

Social Analysis

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This article introduces a time perspective on 'protracted displacement' and seeks to theorize 'agency-in-waiting' through a focus on the ways in which people simultaneously carry on during displacement, feel trapped in the present, and actively relate to alternative notions of the future. The article analyzes the protracted case of internally displaced Georgians from Abkhazia and the dominant discourse of return that characterizes their lives in displacement. Changing notions of hope are analyzed in order to understand the role that an uncertain future plays and the potential for agency that people develop during displacement. Agency-in-waiting and future perspectives, it is suggested, contribute valuable conceptual and political dimensions to the ways in which protracted displacement can be understood and addressed.

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Section: Protracted Displacementmentioning

confidence: 99%

Active Waiting and Changing Hopes: Toward a Time Perspective on Protracted Displacement

Brun¹

2015

Social Analysis

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“…The Iraqi refugees challenge widely held views about refugees in ways that are important for states and intergovernmental organizations seeking to implement solutions to their plight (Chatty and Mansour 2011). First, Iraqis are primarily urban refugees.…”

Section: Background: Iraqi Refugeesmentioning

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Living an Uncertain Future: Temporality, Uncertainty, and Well-Being among Iraqi Refugees in Egypt

El‐Shaarawi¹

2015

Social Analysis

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While displacement has always involved the refiguring of space, scholars of forced migration have recently begun to consider how temporality might be crucial to an understanding of displacement. In this article, I consider the interplay of temporal and spatial uncertainty in the experience of exile for Iraqi refugees in metropolitan Cairo. By examining how Iraqis understand displacement as uncertain and how this uncertainty is a cause of significant distress, I show that an attunement to temporality can help us to understand refugees' experiences of displacement. Iraqi refugees spoke of exile in Cairo as 'living in transit'-a condition in which disjuncture between their expectations about exile and its realities contributed to an altered experience of time in which the future became particularly uncertain and life was experienced as unstable. One solution sought by refugees is resettlement, a process that often renders the future even more uncertain, at least in the short term.

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“…However, the instability and the policies developed by the occupation authorities led to sectarian violence as Iraqi political parties sought power, starting in 2006. The ensuing violence and corruption has resulted in repeated waves of displacement, both internal and external (Chatelard, ; Chatty and Mansour, : 54). By 2008, 2.8 million Iraqis had become refugees and similar numbers were internally displaced (Chatelard, ; Sassoon, : 13 Washington, ; IOM, ).…”

Section: Historical Background Of Iraqi Displacementmentioning

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“…Examining previous Iraqi refugee movements, Chatty and Mansour argue that Iraqi refugees do not fit the Western understanding of the refugee regime because their migration is circular: while they are living outside the country, Iraqi refugees return to Iraq to check on family members, pick up pension checks and conduct routine business. Chatty and Mansour characterize this mobility as the “result of a strategy to manage life risks by dispersal of family members along pre‐established social networks whenever possible” (Chatty and Mansour, : 81).…”

Section: Historical Background Of Iraqi Displacementmentioning

confidence: 99%

Introduction to Special Issue on Displacement in Iraq

Davis

2019

International Migration

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Unlocking Protracted Displacement: An Iraqi Case Study

Cited by 21 publications

References 5 publications

Active Waiting and Changing Hopes: Toward a Time Perspective on Protracted Displacement

Active Waiting and Changing Hopes: Toward a Time Perspective on Protracted Displacement

Living an Uncertain Future: Temporality, Uncertainty, and Well-Being among Iraqi Refugees in Egypt

Introduction to Special Issue on Displacement in Iraq

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