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Between Protection and Harm
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This open access book dissects the current narratives of ‘vulnerability’ in asylum laws and policies, by unpacking the meanings, productions, and performances, of ‘vulnerability’ in different contexts, from countries of first asylum in the Global South to Europe and Canada. It discusses how the increased reliance on ‘vulnerability’ to guide states’ replies to refugee movements improves refugee protection, while also generating contestations and exclusionary effects that may cause harm. Based on data collected as part of the EU Horizon 2020 VULNER project, the book examines existing legal and bureaucratic approaches to refugees’ vulnerabilities, which it confronts with the refugees’ experiences and understandings of their own life challenges. It analyses the perspectives from state actors, humanitarian organisations, and social and aid workers, as well as the refugees themselves. By emphasizing how these perspectives relate and feed into each other, the book unpacks the humanitarian replies from states and the international community to refugee movements – including in their implied exclusionary dimensions that generate contestations and implementation difficulties which, if not tackled and understood properly, risk exacerbating and/or producing vulnerabilities among refugees.

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Keywords

  • agency
  • Asylum laws and bureaucracies
  • encampment
  • Ethnographic Fieldwork
  • EU asylum policy
  • gender
  • Global refugee governance
  • Humanitarianism
  • Intersectionality
  • migration and refugee studies
  • situatedness
  • temporality
  • thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBF Social and ethical issues::JBFH Migration, immigration and emigration
  • thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHB Sociology
  • thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPP Public administration
  • thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPQ Central / national / federal government
  • thema EDItEUR::L Law::LN Laws of specific jurisdictions and specific areas of law::LNH Employment and labour law: general
  • thema EDItEUR::L Law::LN Laws of specific jurisdictions and specific areas of law::LNT Social law and Medical law
  • Vulnerability studies

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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-69808-8

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