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This book investigates the rise of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) as a global security actor. It follows the refugee agency through some of the past two decades' major conflict-induced humanitarian emergencies : in northern Iraq (1991), Bosnia (1991-95), eastern Zaire (1994-96), Kosovo (1998-99), Afghanistan (2001-) and Iraq (2003-). It analyses UNHCR's momentous transformation from a small, timid legal protection agency to the world's foremost humanitarian actor playing a central role in the international response to the many wars of the tumultuous last decade of the 20th century. Then, as the 21st century set in, the agency's political prominence waned. It remains a major humanitarian actor, whose budgets and staffing levels continue to rise. But the polarised post-9/11 period and a worsening protection climate for refugees and asylum seekers spurred UNHCR to abandon its claim to be a local security actor and return to a more modest, quietly diplomatic role. The rise of UNHCR as a global security actor is placed within the context of the dramatic shift in perceptions of national and international security after the end of the Cold War. The Cold War superpower struggle encouraged a narrow strategic-military understanding of security. In the more fluid and unpredictable post-Cold War environment, a range of new issues were introduced to states' security agendas. Prominent among these were the perceived threats posed by refugees and asylum seekers to international security, state stability, and societal cohesion. This book investigates UNHCR's response to this new international environment; adopting, adapting, and finally abandoning a security discourse on the refugee problem.
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Cet ouvrage propose une anthropologie politique du Haut Commissariat aux réfugiés (HCR). Agence onusienne ayant pour mission de veiller sur la prise en charge des réfugiés, le HCR est présent dans plus de 130 pays et s'occupe de quelque 80 millions de personnes. En emmenant le lecteur à travers les bureaux chargés du dossier afghan, au cours des années 2000, à Genève comme à Kaboul, l'auteure donne à voir le fonctionnement interne de cette organisation internationale : comment se déploie-t-elle à travers le monde ? Qui sont ses agents ? Comment le HCR exerce-t-il son pouvoir ? Ce livre montre également que la vision du monde nationale et étatocentrée de l'organisation l'amène en pratique à participer à des mécanismes de sédentarisation et d'illégalisation des personnes déplacées. Il met ainsi en lumière une impasse majeure de l'action contemporaine du HCR : l'agence s'efforce d'établir un type d'ordre ? sédentaire et centré sur l'État-nation ? qui est en fait à l'origine du « problème » qu'elle a pour mission de résoudre. En étudiant la prise en charge d'une population de réfugiés emblématique à partir d'un positionnement original, l'auteure, à la fois fonctionnaire de l'agence et anthropologue, mène un travail fin et ambitieux, qui articule plusieurs niveaux d'analyse : la micropolitique des pratiques, l'institution HCR et les rapports de pouvoir multi-scalaires qui façonnent son environnement. Giulia Scalettaris est maîtresse de conférences en science politique à l'Université de Lille. Elle travaille sur les politiques internationales d'asile, sur la base d'enquêtes ethnographiques au sein des institutions et aux interfaces institutionnelles. Parallèlement à son expérience universitaire, elle a collaboré avec plusieurs organisations internationales et ONG.
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees --- Refugees --- Refugees --- Afghan War, 2001-2021
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This book investigates the rise of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) as a global security actor, following the refugee agency through some of the past two decades’ major conflict-induced humanitarian crises and complex emergencies, including Afghanistan, Bosnia, Iraq, Kosovo and eastern Zaire/Congo. It analyses UNHCR’s momentous transformation from a small, timid legal protection agency to the world’s foremost humanitarian actor playing a central role in the international response to the many wars of the tumultuous last decade of the twentieth century. Then, as the twenty-first century set in, the agency’s political prominence waned. It remains a major humanitarian actor, but the polarized post-9/11 period and a worsening protection climate for refugees and asylum seekers spurred UNHCR to abandon its claim to be a global security actor and return to a more modest, quietly diplomatic role. The rise of UNHCR as a global security actor is placed within the context of the dramatic shift in perceptions of national and international security after the end of the Cold War. Prominent among ‘new’ security issues were the perceived threats posed by refugees and asylum seekers to international security, state stability, and societal cohesion. This book investigates UNHCR’s response to this new international environment; adopting, adapting and finally abandoning a security discourse on the refugee problem.
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Contains a collection of databases developed by the UNHCR Centre for Documentation on Refugees including current country reports, legal and policy-related documents and literature references.
Refugees --- Human rights --- Emigration and immigration law --- Emigration and immigration law. --- Human rights. --- Refugees. --- Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees --- Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. --- Human rights --- --Databases --- Refugees --- --Statistics
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Forced migration --- Internally displaced persons. --- Humanitarian assistance, American. --- Refugees --- Refugees --- Refugees --- Prevention --- International cooperation. --- United Nations. --- Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. --- Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. --- United Nations. --- Burma. --- Somalia. --- Syria.
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Contains a collection of databases developed by the UNHCR Centre for Documentation on Refugees including current country reports, legal and policy-related documents and literature references.
Refugees --- Human rights --- Emigration and immigration law --- Emigration and immigration law. --- Human rights. --- Refugees. --- Human rights --- --Refugees --- --Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees --- Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. --- Human rights --- --Databases --- Refugees --- --Statistics
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Despite the key importance of accountability for the legitimacy of humanitarian action, inadequate academic attention has been given to how the concept of accountability is evolving within the specific branches of the humanitarian enterprise. Up to now,there exists no comprehensive account of what we label the 'technologies of accountability', the effects of their interaction, or the question of how the current turn to decision-making software and biometrics as both the means and ends of accountability may contribute to reshaping humanitarian governance.UNHCR and the Struggle for Accountability explores the UNHCR's quest for accountability by viewing the UNHCR's accountability obligations through the web of institutional relationships within which the agency is placed (beneficiaries, host governments, implementing partners, donors, the Executive Committee and UNGA). The book takes a multidisciplinary approach in order to illuminate the various layers and relationships that constitute accountability and also to reflect on what constitutes good enough accountability.This book contributes to the discussion regarding how we construct knowledge about concepts in humanitarian studies and is a valuable resource for academics, researchers and professionals in the areas of anthropology, history, international relations, international law, science, technology studies and socio-legal studies.
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