Assisted return (AR) is a widespread policy tool offering financial support and counselling to returning migrants. Policymakers present it as a durable solution vis-à-vis undocumented migrants and rejected asylum seekers. However, AR has been proven to display the concurrence of care and control typical of contested humanitarianism. This concurrenc...
TRAFIG aims to contribute to the development of alternative solutions to protracted displacement that are tailored to the needs and capacities of displaced persons. This working paper contains our central con- cepts and key terms. We make use of the concept of social figurations as the theoretical foundation for our research. We understand figurati...
In the 1990s Palestinian refugees sought to secure a seat in negotiations alongside the PLO and Israel in talks to resolve their situation. Their efforts raise a number of basic questions concerning the right to political participation and the negotiation of durable solutions to refugee situations. First and foremost is the question of whether peac...
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This thesis concerns persons recognised as refugees based on the criteria set by Article 1A(2) of the 1951 Geneva Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees (CSR1951) and residing in a Contracting State. It appraises the exclusion of CSR1951 refugees from participation in elections of their countries of asylum pursuant to a citizenship voting qu...
The European Union and the Council of Europe have reminded its Member States the obligation to provide special protection and assistance to unaccompanied children. The documents that in this paper we have studied - approved from 2010 to 2013 - explicitly recognize that in Europe have not yet been adopted the measures required to protect effectively...
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Published in Journal of refugee studies
What happens when refugees do not repatriate post-conflict? For those who remain in refugee camps, the remaining, durable solutions of resettlement and local integration may be neither feasible nor desirable. This study of Boreah camp in Guinea illustrates how refugees and refugee camps become invisible from the perspective of the host government a...
Published in Development
In the past, African states have been particularly generous to asylum-seekers. Today they follow the example of their more industrialized, less-hospitable counterparts in the West. Sanjugta Vas Dev examines the reasons behind the decline of traditional African hospitality within the framework of the UNHCR-promoted durable solutions. She argues that...
