Refugee Governance in the Arab World: The International Refugee Regime and Global Politics

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The eBook editions of this book are available as open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by Sciences Po. Forced displacement and migration remain at the forefront of global political debates, and the Arab region has played an oversized role in hosting refugees. Yet a paucity of literature exists on how the region has contributed to shaping the international refugee regime. This anthology presents the first comprehensive study of how Arab states interact with the international refugee regime. It presents a wide range of case studies and offers a multidisciplinary perspective bringing together historical, political, legal, sociological, and anthropological approaches. The anthology explores how Arab states have created norms and practices of refugee governance beyond and not necessarily aligned with international refugee law. It also analyses how Arab states, as norm challengers, have negotiated, contested, and reframed international practices, agreements, and processes. In doing so, the book de-exceptionalizes the Arab region, casting states and societies as norm shapers with an impact on global refugee politics beyond the Arab world.

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Moving away from Eurocentric and Western-centric of migration studies and narratives, Chatty and Fakhoury gather an impressive set of researchers that provide the first systematic and coherent book that studies the agency of Arab world in refugee governance. Against the common assumption that essentialize Arab states as passive actors, this book is a needed addition to the work on decentering, and compiles fascinating accounts of how refugee governance norms are being shaped, contested, sometimes manipulated by various actors in the Arab world. This is a must-read for students, scholars and practitioners interested in migration and the MENA region. -- Sarah Wolff, Queen Mary University of London, UK
Refugee Governance in the Arab World is much more than its title suggests. Yes, it provides us with a path-breaking and truly comprehensive historical, political, and deeply socially embedded understanding of how transnational governance of refugee protection actually works in the Arab world. -- James C. Hathaway, James E. and Sarah A. Degan Professor of Law, University of Michigan Law School, US

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Tamirace Fakhoury is Associate Professor of International Politics and Conflict at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, US. She is also the former visiting Kuwait Chair at Sciences Po in Paris. Tamirace has worked previously at Aalborg University, Denmark, Sciences Po, France and the Lebanese American University, Lebanon. She has widely published on refugee and migration policy, and power-sharing in post-war societies. Dawn Chatty is Emerita Professor of Anthropology and Forced Migration at the University of Oxford, UK. She was previously Director of its Refugee Studies Centre. Her books include Syria: The Making and Unmaking of a Refuge State (2017) and Displacement and Dispossession in the Modern Middle East (2010).