Failure and Hope: Fighting for the Rights of the Forcibly Displaced

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In 2015, sixty million people were displaced by violent conflict globally - the highest since World War II. National and international policy prevents the displaced from working or moving freely outside the camps set up to 'temporarily' house them. This policy has left the displaced with no right to work and move while they remain displaced for years, if not decades. Based on data on all 61 protracted displacement crises worldwide, fieldwork in seven conflict zones around the world, and in-depth interviews with over 170 humanitarian aid workers, government officials and refugees, this book systematically details the barriers to effective advocacy at every level of governance and shows that failure is the norm. Unlike many academic monographs, it goes further and proposes an alternative way forward that capitalizes on social entrepreneurship, crowd-funding and micro-finance to improve the lives of those that have been forced to flee their homes to find safety. Cover Half-title Title page Copyright information Table of contents List of figures List of tables Acknowledgments 1 Failure is the norm A failed international policy Focus on the problems, not the action Displacement is not living Failure is the norm, successes are rare, but they exist Global or transnational advocacy New data on global advocacy Africa Asia Americas Europe Layout of the book 2 Global attention to displacement crises Getting it on the agenda Setting the “global agenda”: global issues, global actors and global agendas Data collection Analysis Conclusion 3 Explaining global attention Violence sells Seven specific cases of violent conflict and varying attention Bosnia-Herzegovina/Croatia Somalia/Kenya Bhutan/Nepal Burma/Thailand Uganda Sri Lanka Colombia Conclusions 4 Frontline advocacy Who is advocating and what are they up against? Bosnian refugees in Croatia Somali refugees in Kenya Bhutanese refugees in Nepal Karen and Karenni refugees in Thailand The barriers #1 Advocacy is not the priority, saving lives is #2 Fighting for people no one cares about #3 No votes and no money = no leverage #4 Corruption 5 Frontline advocacy Who is advocating and what are they up against? Croatian IDPs Ugandan IDPs Colombian IDPs Sri Lankan IDPs The barriers 6 Frontline mobilization The definition and determinants of collective action Collective action contexts Human security context Legal context Cultural and community context Duration context NGO activity – projects/initiatives Data collection The nature of collective action among the displaced Human security context and collective action Legal context and collective action Cultural/community context and collective action Duration context and collective action NGO activity and collective action Conclusions 7 An innovative global campaign for action A broken system at every level If it’s broke, fix it Not empty critiques, but rather real-world solutions A better route: the many to the many Social entrepreneurship is happening – let’s scale it up The campaign 8 Conclusion References Index