Refugee dignity in protracted exile [electronic resource] : rights, capabilities and legal empowerment / Anna Lise Purkey.

Milton Park : Routledge, 2020.©2020

Purkey, Anna. author.

ProQuest (Firm) issuing body.

01-01-2020

1 online resource (xiii, 205 pages)

text

online resource

Routledge studies in development, displacement and resettlement series

Routledge studies in development, displacement and resettlement.

E-BOOK (Copy 1) EBL 1254729-1001 ONLINE

Open item 

Refugees

Refugee camps

Legal standing

Human rights

Social conditions

Overseas item

Includes bibliographical references and index.

9781000763454

This book investigates how effective human rights and the inherent dignity of refugees can be secured in situations of protracted exile and encampment. The book deploys an innovative human rights-based capabilities approach to address fundamental questions relating to law, power, governance, responsibility, and accountability in refugee camps. Adopting an original theoretical framework, the author demonstrates that legal empowerment can change the distribution of power in a given refugee situation, facilitating the exercise of individual agency and assisting in the reform of the opportunity structure available to the individual. Thus, by helping to increase the capability of refugees to participate actively in the decisions that most affect their core rights and interests, participatory approaches to legal empowerment can also assist in securing other capabilities, ultimately ensuring that refugees are able to live dignified lives while in protracted exile. Ultimately, the book demonstrates that legal empowerment of refugees can bring lasting benefits in establishing trust between refugees, the state, and local communities.

1254729

1254729-1001

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