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Research Handbook on Asylum and Refugee Policy
Providing a comprehensive, multi-disciplinary analysis of key issues in the field, this topical Research Handbook explores asylum and migration policy in a global context. Chapters consider national, regional and international responses to refugees and forced migration, examining the evolution of asylum and refugee policies and why gaps remain in protection.
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Providing a comprehensive multidisciplinary analysis of key issues in the field, this topical Research Handbook explores asylum and migration policy in a global context. Bringing together a diverse collection of experts, Jane Freedman and Glenda Santana de Andrade outline national, regional and international responses to refugees and forced migration.
The Research Handbook examines how asylum and refugee policies have evolved since the 1951 Refugee Convention, and why gaps remain in protection. Chapters cover historical approaches and geopolitical contexts, explore key regional issues such as the Common European Asylum System, and consider thematic questions surrounding securitisation, violence and resistance, and intersectionality. This forward thinking Research Handbook concludes with an analysis of new and emerging issues which will be vital for the future of asylum and refugee policy, including how to protect climate change refugees and the impact of pandemics.
Interdisciplinary in scope, this Research Handbook is invaluable for students and scholars of human rights, migration, development studies, and political science, alongside asylum and refugee policymakers.
The Research Handbook examines how asylum and refugee policies have evolved since the 1951 Refugee Convention, and why gaps remain in protection. Chapters cover historical approaches and geopolitical contexts, explore key regional issues such as the Common European Asylum System, and consider thematic questions surrounding securitisation, violence and resistance, and intersectionality. This forward thinking Research Handbook concludes with an analysis of new and emerging issues which will be vital for the future of asylum and refugee policy, including how to protect climate change refugees and the impact of pandemics.
Interdisciplinary in scope, this Research Handbook is invaluable for students and scholars of human rights, migration, development studies, and political science, alongside asylum and refugee policymakers.
Contents
Contents
Introduction to the Research Handbook on Asylum and Refugee Policy 1
Jane Freedman and Glenda Santana de Andrade
PART I A HISTORICAL APPROACH TO ASYLUM AND REFUGEE
POLICY
1 Making markets: the historical development of the refugee regime 7
Julia Morris
2 Asylum and legal protection: a history 25
Phil Orchard
3 Need for critical reimagination: colonial legacy of the 1951 Refugee
Convention 39
Jay Ramasubramanyam and Ulrike Krause
PART II GEOGRAPHICAL AND GEO-POLITICAL CONTEXT FOR
UNDERSTANDING REFUGEE POLICY
4 Refugee policy in Latin America: structural pillars and good practices 53
Liliana Lyra Jubilut, Melissa Martins Casagrande and
Marina Cardoso Farias
5 Climate refugees in India and international law: convergences
divergences and anomalies 76
Atul Alexander
6 Old tensions and new questions: the expansion of refugee sponsorship 95
Shauna Labman and Rachel McNally
7 ‘If you change the country, you are not a real refugee’ – the impact of
the Dublin Regulation on refugees’ flight and arrival experiences 112
Anja Bartel
8 Refuge in silos: how three of the largest MENA hosts address Syrian
mass displacement in the absence of coordinated efforts and responses 124
Jasmin Lilian Diab
9 Liminal refuge in the land of (decreasing) opportunity 146
Stephanie J. Nawyn and Breanne Leigh Grace
10 Refugee governance in the Middle East: insights from Turkey, Lebanon
and Jordan 159
Zeynep Şahin-Mencütek and Fatma Yilmaz-Elmas
PART III SECURITISATION, VIOLENCE AND RESISTANCE
11 Crises, violence and vulnerabilities for refugees in Europe 178
Jane Freedman
12 South Africa’s dalliance with temporary protection of refugees – is it
a form of ‘sophisticated containment’ or a humanitarian act? 189
Fatima Khan
13 The violent externalisation of asylum 205
Jane Freedman
14 Refugee’s resistance: analysing survival strategies through the prism of
intersectionality 222
Glenda Santana de Andrade
PART IV INTERSECTIONALITY AND ASYLUM AND REFUGEE POLICIES
15 Intersections of gender, sexuality and ‘race’ in queer asylum claims 240
Nina Held and Aderonke Apata
16 Women and gender in asylum and refugee law and policy 252
Jane Freedman
17 Beyond the transient protections of the Children’s Act: contestations on
citizenship and belonging for foreigners with refugee claims in South Africa 268
Sikanyiso Masuku
18 Exclusionary refugee protection regime, colonial others and gender dualities 281
Rose Jaji and Ulrike Krause
19 Conducting sexual and reproductive health and rights research amongst
refugee women in sub-Saharan Africa: some ethical and methodological
considerations 292
Tamaryn L. Crankshaw and Victoria M. Mutambara
PART V CURRENT AND FUTURE CHALLENGES TO ASYLUM
AND REFUGEE POLICY
20 Understanding solidarity practices with refugees 306
Óscar García Agustín, Paola Buconjic, Martin Bak Jørgensen and
Mashudu Salifu
21 Climate change and refugees: a challenge to legal frameworks 321
Simon Behrman and Avidan Kent
22 Key issues relating to ethics when conducting research with forcibly
displaced people 338
Christina Clark-Kazak
23 Protection beyond refuge: expanding on the need for an intersectional
approach to Syrian refugees’ social protection in Jordan 350
Jasmin Lilian Diab
Introduction to the Research Handbook on Asylum and Refugee Policy 1
Jane Freedman and Glenda Santana de Andrade
PART I A HISTORICAL APPROACH TO ASYLUM AND REFUGEE
POLICY
1 Making markets: the historical development of the refugee regime 7
Julia Morris
2 Asylum and legal protection: a history 25
Phil Orchard
3 Need for critical reimagination: colonial legacy of the 1951 Refugee
Convention 39
Jay Ramasubramanyam and Ulrike Krause
PART II GEOGRAPHICAL AND GEO-POLITICAL CONTEXT FOR
UNDERSTANDING REFUGEE POLICY
4 Refugee policy in Latin America: structural pillars and good practices 53
Liliana Lyra Jubilut, Melissa Martins Casagrande and
Marina Cardoso Farias
5 Climate refugees in India and international law: convergences
divergences and anomalies 76
Atul Alexander
6 Old tensions and new questions: the expansion of refugee sponsorship 95
Shauna Labman and Rachel McNally
7 ‘If you change the country, you are not a real refugee’ – the impact of
the Dublin Regulation on refugees’ flight and arrival experiences 112
Anja Bartel
8 Refuge in silos: how three of the largest MENA hosts address Syrian
mass displacement in the absence of coordinated efforts and responses 124
Jasmin Lilian Diab
9 Liminal refuge in the land of (decreasing) opportunity 146
Stephanie J. Nawyn and Breanne Leigh Grace
10 Refugee governance in the Middle East: insights from Turkey, Lebanon
and Jordan 159
Zeynep Şahin-Mencütek and Fatma Yilmaz-Elmas
PART III SECURITISATION, VIOLENCE AND RESISTANCE
11 Crises, violence and vulnerabilities for refugees in Europe 178
Jane Freedman
12 South Africa’s dalliance with temporary protection of refugees – is it
a form of ‘sophisticated containment’ or a humanitarian act? 189
Fatima Khan
13 The violent externalisation of asylum 205
Jane Freedman
14 Refugee’s resistance: analysing survival strategies through the prism of
intersectionality 222
Glenda Santana de Andrade
PART IV INTERSECTIONALITY AND ASYLUM AND REFUGEE POLICIES
15 Intersections of gender, sexuality and ‘race’ in queer asylum claims 240
Nina Held and Aderonke Apata
16 Women and gender in asylum and refugee law and policy 252
Jane Freedman
17 Beyond the transient protections of the Children’s Act: contestations on
citizenship and belonging for foreigners with refugee claims in South Africa 268
Sikanyiso Masuku
18 Exclusionary refugee protection regime, colonial others and gender dualities 281
Rose Jaji and Ulrike Krause
19 Conducting sexual and reproductive health and rights research amongst
refugee women in sub-Saharan Africa: some ethical and methodological
considerations 292
Tamaryn L. Crankshaw and Victoria M. Mutambara
PART V CURRENT AND FUTURE CHALLENGES TO ASYLUM
AND REFUGEE POLICY
20 Understanding solidarity practices with refugees 306
Óscar García Agustín, Paola Buconjic, Martin Bak Jørgensen and
Mashudu Salifu
21 Climate change and refugees: a challenge to legal frameworks 321
Simon Behrman and Avidan Kent
22 Key issues relating to ethics when conducting research with forcibly
displaced people 338
Christina Clark-Kazak
23 Protection beyond refuge: expanding on the need for an intersectional
approach to Syrian refugees’ social protection in Jordan 350
Jasmin Lilian Diab
