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Refugee Governance, State and Politics in the Middle East examines the legal, political and institutional responses to large-scale Syrian forced migration, the motivations behind countries' policy responses, how they change over time and their impact on regional and global cooperation.
Sommario
1. Introduction
Part I Literature, Categorizations and Models
2. The literature on state responses to mass migration in the Global South
3. Categorizations and models for comparative analysis of refugee migration governance
Part II Turkey
4. Patterns and stages of refugee governance in Turkey
5. Understanding the shifts in refugee governance and refugee politics of Turkey
Part III Lebanon
6. Lebanon’s responses to Syrian mass migration
7. Forces behind Lebanese governance patterns and refugee politics
Part IV Jordan
8. Jordanian national refugee governance and its responses to Syrian mass migration
9. Drivers of Jordanian refugee governance and refugee politics
Part V Comparison and Conclusions
10. Comparison of refugee governance in Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan
11. Conclusion
Info autore
Zeynep Şahin Mencütek is an Associate Fellow, Käte Hamburger Kolleg/Centre for Global Cooperation Research, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany, and a Senior Researcher, Swedish Research Institute, Istanbul, Turkey.
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Refugee Governance, State and Politics in the Middle East examines the legal, political and institutional responses to large-scale Syrian forced migration, the motivations behind countries' policy responses, how they change over time and their impact on regional and global cooperation.
Testo aggiuntivo
"This original and meticulous study of comparative refugee governance is a welcome addition to scholarly work on refugee movement and state responses. Focusing on and analyzing detailed empirical data from Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan, Sahin Mencütek identifies the humanitarian and political response of each of these countries to the protracted Syrian mass migration challenges from 2011-2018. Examining the variations in governance across these three countries as well as the changing patterns of governance over time, Sahin Mencütek captures with rigour and distinctiveness multi-pattern and multi-stage refugee governance that states formulate and implement in response to the mass influx. This book makes an important and timely contribution to refugee studies in general and Middle Eastern displacement in particular." — Dawn Chatty, Emeritus Professor of Anthropology and Forced Migration, University of Oxford, UK"Bringing together a wealth of primary and secondary sources as well as interviews conducted during fieldwork in Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan, Sahin-Mencütek has written a masterful work on state refugee policy in the Global South. Carefully constructed case studies are analyzed using a theoretical framework that integrates the role of policy instruments, levels of implementation and stages of policy evolution to explain neighboring country responses to the Syria refugee crisis. Sahin Mencütek’s book will be the gold standard against which subsequent works on state refugee policy will be measured." — Laurie Brand, Robert Grandford Wright Professor of International Relations and Middle East Studies, University of Southern California, USA, and Chair of the Committee on Academic Freedom, Middle East Studies Association "Movement of people across international borders has emerged as a leading factor in shaping and reshaping both domestic and international politics, contributing therefore to t
