Santiago Villaveces-Izquierdo
- Published in print:
- 2004
- Published Online:
- April 2004
- ISBN:
- 9780199270576
- eISBN:
- 9780191600883
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0199270570.003.0009
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance, History of Economic Thought
The increasing intensification of Colombia's internal wars since 1990 has exacted a heavy toll in uprooting large segments of the country's rural population. As of 2002, it was estimated that 2.9 ...
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The increasing intensification of Colombia's internal wars since 1990 has exacted a heavy toll in uprooting large segments of the country's rural population. As of 2002, it was estimated that 2.9 million Colombians (of a total of 42 million) had become internally displaced. The lack of census variables that capture the dynamics and impact of such dramatic demographic flux has produced a statistical conundrum that hides the crisis from policy‐making spheres as well as from political debates, creating an ‘official invisibility’. Explores the way in which an official ‘narrative’ can obliterate the political standing of the forms of ‘otherness’ that it creates through such state classificatory devices as the census, vital statistics, laws, and maps.Less
The increasing intensification of Colombia's internal wars since 1990 has exacted a heavy toll in uprooting large segments of the country's rural population. As of 2002, it was estimated that 2.9 million Colombians (of a total of 42 million) had become internally displaced. The lack of census variables that capture the dynamics and impact of such dramatic demographic flux has produced a statistical conundrum that hides the crisis from policy‐making spheres as well as from political debates, creating an ‘official invisibility’. Explores the way in which an official ‘narrative’ can obliterate the political standing of the forms of ‘otherness’ that it creates through such state classificatory devices as the census, vital statistics, laws, and maps.
Devika Chawla
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- September 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780823256433
- eISBN:
- 9780823268894
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823256433.001.0001
- Subject:
- Anthropology, Asian Cultural Anthropology
The Indian Independence Act of 1947 granted India freedom from British rule, signaling the formal end of the British Raj in the subcontinent. This freedom, though, came at a price: Partition, the ...
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The Indian Independence Act of 1947 granted India freedom from British rule, signaling the formal end of the British Raj in the subcontinent. This freedom, though, came at a price: Partition, the division of the country into India and Pakistan, and the communal riots that followed. These riots resulted in the deaths of an estimated 1 million Hindus and Muslims and the displacement of about 20 million persons on both sides of the border. This watershed socioeconomic-geopolitical moment cast an enduring shadow on India’s relationship with neighboring Pakistan. Presenting a perspective of the middle-class refugees who were forced from their homes, jobs, and lives with the withdrawal of British rule in India, this book delves into the lives of forty-five Partition refugees and their descendants to show how this event continues to shape their lives. The book melds oral histories with current literature to unravel the emergent conceptual nexus of home, travel, and identity in the stories of the participants. The author argues that the ways in which the participants imagine, recollect, memorialize, or “abandon” home in their everyday narratives give us unique insights into how refugee identities are constituted. These stories reveal how migrations are enacted and what home can mean for displaced populations. Blending biography, autobiography, essay, and performative writing, the book includes field narratives with the author’s own family history. This compilation of stories offers an iteration of how diasporic migrations might be enacted and what “home” means to displaced populations.Less
The Indian Independence Act of 1947 granted India freedom from British rule, signaling the formal end of the British Raj in the subcontinent. This freedom, though, came at a price: Partition, the division of the country into India and Pakistan, and the communal riots that followed. These riots resulted in the deaths of an estimated 1 million Hindus and Muslims and the displacement of about 20 million persons on both sides of the border. This watershed socioeconomic-geopolitical moment cast an enduring shadow on India’s relationship with neighboring Pakistan. Presenting a perspective of the middle-class refugees who were forced from their homes, jobs, and lives with the withdrawal of British rule in India, this book delves into the lives of forty-five Partition refugees and their descendants to show how this event continues to shape their lives. The book melds oral histories with current literature to unravel the emergent conceptual nexus of home, travel, and identity in the stories of the participants. The author argues that the ways in which the participants imagine, recollect, memorialize, or “abandon” home in their everyday narratives give us unique insights into how refugee identities are constituted. These stories reveal how migrations are enacted and what home can mean for displaced populations. Blending biography, autobiography, essay, and performative writing, the book includes field narratives with the author’s own family history. This compilation of stories offers an iteration of how diasporic migrations might be enacted and what “home” means to displaced populations.
Veena Pillai, Alison Mosier-Mills, and Kaveh Khoshnood
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- July 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780198814733
- eISBN:
- 9780191852459
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780198814733.003.0011
- Subject:
- Public Health and Epidemiology, Public Health
This chapter outlines key methodological and ethical issues that researchers face when conducting social science and health research with forcibly displaced populations. It highlights specific ...
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This chapter outlines key methodological and ethical issues that researchers face when conducting social science and health research with forcibly displaced populations. It highlights specific considerations for researchers, using case studies from research conducted with refugees in Malaysia and asylum seekers in Israel. The Malaysian case considers patient safety, accessing hidden populations, non-maleficence, beneficence, the nuances of researcher–participant relationships, and the importance of input from local ethics committees. The Israel case describes the intricacies of working with asylum seekers in non-camp settings, benefits for participants, the threat of deportation, the risk of participant reliance on researchers for support services, working as a cultural liaison, and the potential for hostility from the government. The chapter underscores the unique challenges stemming from the complexity and diversity of these populations. Finally, it provides guidelines and recommendations for ethical review boards evaluating proposals for research with forcibly displaced populations.Less
This chapter outlines key methodological and ethical issues that researchers face when conducting social science and health research with forcibly displaced populations. It highlights specific considerations for researchers, using case studies from research conducted with refugees in Malaysia and asylum seekers in Israel. The Malaysian case considers patient safety, accessing hidden populations, non-maleficence, beneficence, the nuances of researcher–participant relationships, and the importance of input from local ethics committees. The Israel case describes the intricacies of working with asylum seekers in non-camp settings, benefits for participants, the threat of deportation, the risk of participant reliance on researchers for support services, working as a cultural liaison, and the potential for hostility from the government. The chapter underscores the unique challenges stemming from the complexity and diversity of these populations. Finally, it provides guidelines and recommendations for ethical review boards evaluating proposals for research with forcibly displaced populations.
Wim Naudé, Amelia U. Santos-Paulino, and Mark McGillivray (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- January 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199693153
- eISBN:
- 9780191731990
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199693153.001.0001
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance, Development, Growth, and Environmental, International
Overcoming state fragility is one of the most important international development objectives of the 21st century. Many fragile states have turned into failed states, where millions of people are ...
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Overcoming state fragility is one of the most important international development objectives of the 21st century. Many fragile states have turned into failed states, where millions of people are caught in deprivation and seemingly hopeless conditions. Fragile states lack the authority, legitimacy, and capacity that a modern state needs to advance the development of its peoples, and present deep challenges for the design and implementation of development policy. For instance, how is aid to be designed and delivered in a way that will help people in fragile states if their governments lack capacity to absorb and use aid? And what can be done about adverse side-effects of fragile states on their neighbours and the global community, such as heightened insecurity, rising out-migration, displaced populations, and the destruction of natural resources? This book documents the far reaching global repercussions of state fragility and provides a timely contribution to the international discourse on three dimensions of fragile states: their causes, costs, and the responses required. Its aim is to contribute to understanding of how strong and accountable states can be fostered-states where government and civil society progressively advance human wellbeing, underpin households' resilience in the face of shocks, and form effective partnerships to maximize the benefits of development assistance.Less
Overcoming state fragility is one of the most important international development objectives of the 21st century. Many fragile states have turned into failed states, where millions of people are caught in deprivation and seemingly hopeless conditions. Fragile states lack the authority, legitimacy, and capacity that a modern state needs to advance the development of its peoples, and present deep challenges for the design and implementation of development policy. For instance, how is aid to be designed and delivered in a way that will help people in fragile states if their governments lack capacity to absorb and use aid? And what can be done about adverse side-effects of fragile states on their neighbours and the global community, such as heightened insecurity, rising out-migration, displaced populations, and the destruction of natural resources? This book documents the far reaching global repercussions of state fragility and provides a timely contribution to the international discourse on three dimensions of fragile states: their causes, costs, and the responses required. Its aim is to contribute to understanding of how strong and accountable states can be fostered-states where government and civil society progressively advance human wellbeing, underpin households' resilience in the face of shocks, and form effective partnerships to maximize the benefits of development assistance.
Marcelo M. Suárez-Orozco (ed.)
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780520297128
- eISBN:
- 9780520969629
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520297128.001.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Migration Studies (including Refugee Studies)
The world is witnessing a rapid rise in the number of victims of human trafficking and of migrants—voluntary and involuntary, internal and international, authorized and unauthorized. In the first two ...
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The world is witnessing a rapid rise in the number of victims of human trafficking and of migrants—voluntary and involuntary, internal and international, authorized and unauthorized. In the first two decades of this century alone, more than 65 million people have been forced to escape home into the unknown. The slow-motion disintegration of failing states with feeble institutions, war and terror, demographic imbalances, unchecked climate change, and cataclysmic environmental disruptions have contributed to the catastrophic migrations that are placing millions of human beings at grave risk. Humanitarianism and Mass Migration fills a scholarly gap by examining the uncharted contours of mass migration. Exceptionally curated, it contains contributions from Jacqueline Bhabha, Richard Mollica, Irina Bokova, Pedro Noguera, Hirokazu Yoshikawa, James A. Banks, Mary Waters, and many others. The volume’s interdisciplinary and comparative approach showcases new research that reveals how current structures of health, mental health, and education are anachronistic and out of touch with the new cartographies of mass migrations. Envisioning a hopeful and realistic future, this book provides clear and concrete recommendations for what must be done to mine the inherent agency, cultural resources, resilience, and capacity for self-healing that will help forcefully displaced populations.Less
The world is witnessing a rapid rise in the number of victims of human trafficking and of migrants—voluntary and involuntary, internal and international, authorized and unauthorized. In the first two decades of this century alone, more than 65 million people have been forced to escape home into the unknown. The slow-motion disintegration of failing states with feeble institutions, war and terror, demographic imbalances, unchecked climate change, and cataclysmic environmental disruptions have contributed to the catastrophic migrations that are placing millions of human beings at grave risk. Humanitarianism and Mass Migration fills a scholarly gap by examining the uncharted contours of mass migration. Exceptionally curated, it contains contributions from Jacqueline Bhabha, Richard Mollica, Irina Bokova, Pedro Noguera, Hirokazu Yoshikawa, James A. Banks, Mary Waters, and many others. The volume’s interdisciplinary and comparative approach showcases new research that reveals how current structures of health, mental health, and education are anachronistic and out of touch with the new cartographies of mass migrations. Envisioning a hopeful and realistic future, this book provides clear and concrete recommendations for what must be done to mine the inherent agency, cultural resources, resilience, and capacity for self-healing that will help forcefully displaced populations.
María Cristina García
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- September 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780190655303
- eISBN:
- 9780190697754
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780190655303.003.0006
- Subject:
- History, American History: 20th Century
The United States has been the top resettlement nation for refugees accepting, on average, 59,000 refugees per year since 2004. The US immigration courts have also granted asylum to an average of ...
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The United States has been the top resettlement nation for refugees accepting, on average, 59,000 refugees per year since 2004. The US immigration courts have also granted asylum to an average of 24,500 individuals per year since 2004. The United States’ role in the world is changing, however, and there is no guarantee that the country will continue to honor its international obligation to provide refuge to even a small share of the world’s displaced populations. The Conclusion offers reflections on the ideological and structural challenges that lie ahead for US policymakers and advocates in the crafting of refugee and asylum policy.Less
The United States has been the top resettlement nation for refugees accepting, on average, 59,000 refugees per year since 2004. The US immigration courts have also granted asylum to an average of 24,500 individuals per year since 2004. The United States’ role in the world is changing, however, and there is no guarantee that the country will continue to honor its international obligation to provide refuge to even a small share of the world’s displaced populations. The Conclusion offers reflections on the ideological and structural challenges that lie ahead for US policymakers and advocates in the crafting of refugee and asylum policy.
Pulin B. Nayak, Santosh C. Panda, and Prasanta K. Pattanaik (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- June 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780199464784
- eISBN:
- 9780199086801
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199464784.003.0017
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance, Development, Growth, and Environmental
This chapter contains some concluding observations of the editors. While, in many ways, Odisha has made significant economic progress over the last decade or so, it is still lagging behind the more ...
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This chapter contains some concluding observations of the editors. While, in many ways, Odisha has made significant economic progress over the last decade or so, it is still lagging behind the more developed states of India. To realize its full potential, Odisha needs to utilize its mineral resources and develop manufacturing. Expansion of mining and industries has, however, been held up because of widespread popular resistance to acquisition of land for these purposes. The editors briefly discuss the social and political reasons for such resistance, and they recognize that it will take some time for these issues to be resolved. They feel that, meanwhile, policy makers should give urgent attention to the tasks of increasing agricultural productivity and improving the extremely low living standards of the large tribal population of the state.Less
This chapter contains some concluding observations of the editors. While, in many ways, Odisha has made significant economic progress over the last decade or so, it is still lagging behind the more developed states of India. To realize its full potential, Odisha needs to utilize its mineral resources and develop manufacturing. Expansion of mining and industries has, however, been held up because of widespread popular resistance to acquisition of land for these purposes. The editors briefly discuss the social and political reasons for such resistance, and they recognize that it will take some time for these issues to be resolved. They feel that, meanwhile, policy makers should give urgent attention to the tasks of increasing agricultural productivity and improving the extremely low living standards of the large tribal population of the state.
