State Sovereignty vs. Refugees’ Resilience: Repatriation, Securitization, and Transnationalism in Dadaab

Abdulkadir Osman Farah

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    Abstract

    This paper understands state efforts in pursuing legitimate sovereignty and security concerns, but also adds the efforts of humanitarian organizations and refugee responses into the analysis. With observations and responses from refugees in East Africa, this paper complements earlier studies stressing refugee perspectives (Peteet, 2005; Carolina and Nyers, 2007; Rebecca, 2010; Rajaram, 2002; Bradley, 2014; Harrell-Bond and Voutira, 2007; Eastmond, 2007). The aim is to go beyond the conventional understanding of refugees as people fleeing persecution from one state and appealing protection in another. Instead the paper proposes a dialectical process of interconnected state actions, humanitarian concerns and refugee reactions- suggesting recurring state-civic dynamics
    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationRefugees and Forced Migration in the Horn and Eastern Africa : Trends, Challenges and Opportunities
    EditorsJohannes Dragsbaek Schmidt, Leah Kimathi, Michael Omondi Owiso
    Number of pages20
    PublisherSpringer
    Publication date1 Jan 2019
    ISBN (Print)978-3-030-03720-8
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 1 Jan 2019
    SeriesAdvances in African Economic, Social and Political Development
    ISSN2198-7262

    Keywords

    • State sovereignty
    • Repatriation
    • Transnationalism
    • Securitization

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