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State Sovereignty vs. Refugees’ Resilience: Repatriation, Securitization, and Transnationalism in Dadaab

In: Refugees and Forced Migration in the Horn and Eastern Africa

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  • Abdulkadir Osman Farah

    (Aalborg University)

Abstract

Focusing on state-civic dynamics in refugee repatriation schemes, this contribution aims to go beyond the conventional understanding of refugees as victims. It proposes a dialectical process of interconnected state actions, humanitarian concerns, and refugee responses. Employing Simmel’s form and content analysis to better understand and explain the dynamics of transnational formations, the study empirically highlights refugee responses to Dadaab policy discourses by Kenyan authorities. Apart from the analysis of documents from Kenyan authorities, the UN, and NGOs, the work builds on a fieldwork method among 25 refugees both in Kenya and in Somalia as well as interviews with transnational community members in Denmark. The study finds that though formally occupying different roles, states and humanitarian organizations collaborate in the implementation of refugee state policies letting the displaced to seek civic—mainly transnational and communal—alternatives.

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  • Abdulkadir Osman Farah, 2019. "State Sovereignty vs. Refugees’ Resilience: Repatriation, Securitization, and Transnationalism in Dadaab," Advances in African Economic, Social and Political Development, in: Johannes Dragsbaek Schmidt & Leah Kimathi & Michael Omondi Owiso (ed.), Refugees and Forced Migration in the Horn and Eastern Africa, pages 267-286, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:aaechp:978-3-030-03721-5_14
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-03721-5_14
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