Kirsten McConnachie

Governing Refugees (eBook, PDF)

Justice, Order and Legal Pluralism

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Governing Refugees examines the themes of community governance, order maintenance and legal pluralism in the context of refugee camps. Focusing specifically on the refugee camps along the Thai-Burma border, this book sheds light on the reality of life in a refugee camp, through exploring the historical evolution and practice of dispute resolution, and examining the ways in which this 'traditional' practice is altered by the influence of new norms encountered during encampment - particularly international human rights law and the law of the host state. Refugee camps are imbued in the public imagination with assumptions of anarchy, danger and refugee passivity. Governing Refugees marshalls empirical data and ethnographic detail to challenge such assumptions, arguing that refugee camps should be recognised as spaces where social capital can not only survive, but thrive.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 220
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. April 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135051341
• Artikelnr.: 40830815

Autorenporträt

Kirsten McConnachie is Joyce Pearce Junior Research Fellow at Lady Margaret Hall and the Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford. Her research continues to study self-reliance and self-governance strategies among refugees from Burma.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: Agency, Sovereignty and Legal Pluralism
Chapter 2: Our Karen people are not lucky': A history of the Karen in Burma
Chapter 3: The Camp Community
Chapter 4: The Karen in Burma: State, Law and the Production of Order
Chapter 5: Sovereigns and Denizens
Chapter 6: Legal Pluralism and Asymmetries of Power
Chapter 7: Enacting Interlegality: Human Rights and Local Justice
Chapter 8: Beyond Encampment