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    Continental Encampment: Genealogies of Humanitarian Containment in the Middle East and Europe
    The UNHCR and the Afghan Crisis: The Making of the International Refugee Regime
    Rethinking Internal Displacement: Geo-political Games, Fragile States and the Relief Industry
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    Humanitarianism and Security Series

    By Frederick Laker, Giulia Scalettaris and Heidi Mogstad

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    About this series

    Following the 2015 ‘refugee crisis,’ many different actors emerged to contest or mitigate the EU’s border policies. This book explores the birth and trajectory of a Norwegian volunteer organisation “A Drop in the Ocean”, established by a mother of five with no prior experience in humanitarian work. Drawing on eighteen months of ethnographic fieldwork, Heidi Mogstad examines the organisation’s shifting and contested efforts to ‘fill humanitarian gaps’ in Greece while witnessing and shaming the Norwegian public and politicians into action. Moving beyond existing critiques of humanitarian sentiments like pity and compassion, the book focuses specifically on the work of shame and other ‘negative’ emotions.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBerghahn Books
    Release dateNov 12, 2021
    Continental Encampment: Genealogies of Humanitarian Containment in the Middle East and Europe
    The UNHCR and the Afghan Crisis: The Making of the International Refugee Regime
    Rethinking Internal Displacement: Geo-political Games, Fragile States and the Relief Industry

    Titles in the series (4)

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      Rethinking Internal Displacement: Geo-political Games, Fragile States and the Relief Industry
      Rethinking Internal Displacement: Geo-political Games, Fragile States and the Relief Industry

      Rethinking Internal Displacement: Geo-political Games, Fragile States and the Relief Industry

      Frederick Laker
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      Internal displacement has become one of the most pressing geo-political concerns of the twenty-first century. There are currently over 45 million internally displaced people worldwide due to conflict, state collapse and natural disaster in such high profile cases as Syria, Yemen and Iraq. To tackle such vast human suffering, in the last twenty years a global United Nations regime has emerged that seeks to replicate the long-established order of refugee protection by applying international law and humanitarian assistance to citizens within their own borders. This book looks at the origins, structure and impact of this new UN regime and whether it is fit for purpose.

      Internal displacement has become one of the most pressing geo-political concerns of the twenty-first century. There are currently over 45 million internally displaced people worldwide due to conflict, state collapse and natural disaster in such high profile cases as Syria, Yemen and Iraq. To tackle such vast human suffering, in the last twenty years a global United Nations regime has emerged that seeks to replicate the long-established order of refugee protection by applying international law and humanitarian assistance to citizens within their own borders. This book looks at the origins, structure and impact of this new UN regime and whether it is fit for purpose.

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      Continental Encampment: Genealogies of Humanitarian Containment in the Middle East and Europe
      Continental Encampment: Genealogies of Humanitarian Containment in the Middle East and Europe

      Continental Encampment: Genealogies of Humanitarian Containment in the Middle East and Europe

      Are John Knudsen
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      During the past decade, Syria’s displacement crisis has made the Middle East one of the world’s foremost refugee-hosting regions. The measures to prevent refugees and migrants from leaving the region, and returning those who do, has made the region a zone of containment where millions remain displaced. The volume explores responses to mass migration and traces the genealogy of humanitarian containment from the Ottoman Empire and the emergence of the first refugee camps to the present-day displacement ‘crises’ and the re-bordering of Europe.

      During the past decade, Syria’s displacement crisis has made the Middle East one of the world’s foremost refugee-hosting regions. The measures to prevent refugees and migrants from leaving the region, and returning those who do, has made the region a zone of containment where millions remain displaced. The volume explores responses to mass migration and traces the genealogy of humanitarian containment from the Ottoman Empire and the emergence of the first refugee camps to the present-day displacement ‘crises’ and the re-bordering of Europe.

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      The UNHCR and the Afghan Crisis: The Making of the International Refugee Regime
      The UNHCR and the Afghan Crisis: The Making of the International Refugee Regime

      The UNHCR and the Afghan Crisis: The Making of the International Refugee Regime

      Giulia Scalettaris
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      Today the UNHCR is present in more than 130 countries and takes care of some 90 million people. This book looks at how it is deployed and who its agents are. By taking the reader through the offices in charge of the Afghan refugee crisis during the 2000s, in Geneva and in Kabul, the book shows the internal functioning of this international organization. It provides analysis of Afghan refugee policies from an original position, with the author being both agency official and anthropologist, and articulates multiple levels of analysis: the micropolitics of practices as much as the institution and the multi-scalar power relations that shape its environment.

      Today the UNHCR is present in more than 130 countries and takes care of some 90 million people. This book looks at how it is deployed and who its agents are. By taking the reader through the offices in charge of the Afghan refugee crisis during the 2000s, in Geneva and in Kabul, the book shows the internal functioning of this international organization. It provides analysis of Afghan refugee policies from an original position, with the author being both agency official and anthropologist, and articulates multiple levels of analysis: the micropolitics of practices as much as the institution and the multi-scalar power relations that shape its environment.

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      Humanitarian Shame and Redemption: Norwegian Citizens Helping Refugees in Greece
      Humanitarian Shame and Redemption: Norwegian Citizens Helping Refugees in Greece

      Humanitarian Shame and Redemption: Norwegian Citizens Helping Refugees in Greece

      Heidi Mogstad
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      Following the 2015 ‘refugee crisis,’ many different actors emerged to contest or mitigate the EU’s border policies. This book explores the birth and trajectory of a Norwegian volunteer organisation “A Drop in the Ocean”, established by a mother of five with no prior experience in humanitarian work. Drawing on eighteen months of ethnographic fieldwork, Heidi Mogstad examines the organisation’s shifting and contested efforts to ‘fill humanitarian gaps’ in Greece while witnessing and shaming the Norwegian public and politicians into action. Moving beyond existing critiques of humanitarian sentiments like pity and compassion, the book focuses specifically on the work of shame and other ‘negative’ emotions.

      Following the 2015 ‘refugee crisis,’ many different actors emerged to contest or mitigate the EU’s border policies. This book explores the birth and trajectory of a Norwegian volunteer organisation “A Drop in the Ocean”, established by a mother of five with no prior experience in humanitarian work. Drawing on eighteen months of ethnographic fieldwork, Heidi Mogstad examines the organisation’s shifting and contested efforts to ‘fill humanitarian gaps’ in Greece while witnessing and shaming the Norwegian public and politicians into action. Moving beyond existing critiques of humanitarian sentiments like pity and compassion, the book focuses specifically on the work of shame and other ‘negative’ emotions.

    Author

    Frederick Laker

    Frederick Laker is Lecturer in International Relations at King's College London.

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