Reluctant Reception Refugees, Migration and Governance in the Middle East and North Africa

Seeking to understand why host states treat migrants and refugees inclusively, exclusively, or without any direct engagement, Kelsey P. Norman offers this original, comparative analysis of the politics of asylum seeking and migration in the Middle East and North Africa. While current classifications of migrant and refugee engagement in the Global South mistake the absence of formal policy and law for neglect, Reluctant Reception proposes the concept of 'strategic indifference', where states proclaim to be indifferent toward migrants and refugees, thereby inviting international organizations and local NGOs to step in and provide services on the state's behalf. Using the cases of Egypt, Morocco and Turkey to develop her theory of 'strategic indifference', Norman demonstrates how, by allowing migrants and refugees to integrate locally into large informal economies, and by allowing organizations to provide basic services, host countries receive international credibility while only exerting minimal state resources.

Product details

• Authors: Kelsey P Norman, Kelsey P. Norman
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 12.11.2020
• Subject: Non-fiction book; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education
• EAN: 9781108820479
• ISBN: 978-1-108-82047-9
• Pages: 240
• Dimensions (packing): 15.3 x 23 x 1.7 cm
• Series: Print on Demand
• Subjects: Human Rights, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / NGOs (Non-Governmental Organizations), POLITICAL SCIENCE / Geopolitics, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, Egypt, Geopolitics, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / African, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Refugees, International Relations, Morocco, Turkey, Migration, immigration & emigration, Social discrimination & inequality, Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), Migration, immigration and emigration, Civil rights & citizenship, International institutions, Human rights, civil rights, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination, Refugees and political asylum, Refugees & Political Asylum, EU & European institutions, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Activism & Social Justice, Social discrimination and social justice, Türkiye / Turkey