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Old tensions and new questions: the expansion of refugee sponsorship

In: Research Handbook on Asylum and Refugee Policy

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  • Shauna Labman
  • Rachel McNally

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Private or community refugee sponsorship is a partnership between governments and civil society to provide financial, social, and emotional support to resettled refugees. As sponsorship programmes emerge and expand around the world, we consider the long-standing tensions within them that are evident from the Canadian experience. These tensions include different perspectives on the meaning of success; different priorities for selecting refugees; ongoing debates about the role of the government in relation to shared responsibility, privatisation, safeguards, and supports; and a potentially problematic relationship with asylum and other forms of refugee protection. As sponsorship expands, and as civil society welcomes displaced Ukrainians, these old tensions re-emerge in new contexts, along with new questions concerning the relationship between sponsorship and resettlement, legal status for sponsored refugees, and selection criteria. Ultimately, it is important to ensure that as sponsorship programmes expand, refugees are at the centre and complementary pathways indeed complement.

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  • Shauna Labman & Rachel McNally, 2024. "Old tensions and new questions: the expansion of refugee sponsorship," Chapters, in: Jane Freedman & Glenda Santana de Andrade (ed.), Research Handbook on Asylum and Refugee Policy, chapter 6, pages 95-111, Edward Elgar Publishing.
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