Unsettling protracted displacement: connectivity and mobility beyond ‘Limbo’

Etzold, Benjamin; Fechter, Anne-Meike

doi:10.1080/1369183x.2022.2090153

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“…The article shows how these situations of protracted displacement result from immigration and asylum policy decisions by analyzing how “migration regimes and asylum systems that shape the conditions of protractedly displaced persons are continuously transformed” (Etzold and Fechter 2022, 2) with the purpose of keeping people in place (Bakewell 2008). Overall, the article has sought to highlight how legal limbos create uncertainty in everyday life and difficulties in defining a sense of home.…”

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“…From an academic standpoint, recent works on protracted displacement have called for more nuanced understandings of contemporary protracted displacement and acknowledgment of the “long-term experiences of precarity as well as the political forces that contribute to prolonging displacement” (Etzold and Fechter 2022, 1). Along these lines, current debates have called for transcending legal — and politicized — definitions of protracted displacement.…”

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Concurrent Displacements: Return, Waiting for Asylum, and Internal Displacement in Northern Mexico

Gil-Everaert¹,

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Chávez

2023

Journal on Migration and Human Security

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This paper explores the ways in which contemporary mobility dynamics in Mexico have changed over the last decade, leading to protracted displacement. It focuses on three populations: (1) the internally displaced due to violence; (2) Mexican nationals returning from the United States, both voluntarily and due to deportation; and (3) populations seeking asylum in Mexico and the United States. These three populations are not usually analyzed together and do not squarely fall under the traditional legal definitions. The paper outlines ways that situations of protracted displacement and insecurity present challenges in four interconnected arenas of life: housing, legal status, employment, and emotional well-being. For governments and local communities, protracted displacement requires immediate humanitarian responses and the development and implementation of public policies focused on integration. The paper concludes with a set of policy recommendations based on its findings.

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