Governing Refugees

Justice, Order and Legal Pluralism
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-0-415-83400-1
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 220 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 502 g

Reihe: Law, Development and Globalization

Refugee camps are imbued in the public imagination with assumptions of anarchy, danger and refugee passivity. Governing Refugees: Justice, Order and Legal Pluralism challenges such assumptions, arguing that refugee camps should be recognized as spaces where social capital can not only survive, but thrive.

This book examines camp management and the administration of justice in refugee camps on the Thailand-Burma border. Emphasising the work of refugees themselves in coping with and adapting to encampment, it considers themes of agency, sovereignty and legal pluralism in an analysis of local governance and the production of order beyond the state.

Governing Refugees will appeal to anyone with relevant interests in law, anthropology and criminology, as well as those working in the area of refugee studies.

Autoren/Hrsg.

McConnachie, Kirsten

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht Internationales Kriegsrecht, Territorialrecht, Humanitäres Recht
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Gewalt Revolutionäre Gruppen und Bewegungen, Bewaffnete Konflikte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.