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Transnationale Migration - eine dauerhafte Perspektive? Saharauische Flüchtlinge zwischen agency und vulnerability
Transnational migration - a durable solution? Saharawi refugees between agency and vulnerability.
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Abstract Recently, scholars have advocated transnationalism as a viable and durable solution to displacement, stating that transnational mobility and networks have become an important means of sustaining refugees and, thus, increasing their agency. Drawing on the case of the Saharawi refugee camps, one of th... view more
Recently, scholars have advocated transnationalism as a viable and durable solution to displacement, stating that transnational mobility and networks have become an important means of sustaining refugees and, thus, increasing their agency. Drawing on the case of the Saharawi refugee camps, one of the most protracted refugee situations worldwide, this paper takes a critical approach to these assumptions. First, it shows that while transnational migration may strengthen refugees' agency it is also accompanied by new vulnerabilities. Second, it is argued that favouring transnational migration as a "durable" solution risks normalising the status quo of the Saharawi's protracted displacement, instead of engaging with solutions for the Western Sahara conflict itself; that is, ending the Moroccan occupation and decolonising Western Sahara.... view less
Keywords
migration; refugee; Western Sahara; network; vulnerability; capacity to act; exile; Algeria; North Africa
Classification
Migration, Sociology of Migration
Free Keywords
saharauische Flüchtlingslager; transnationale Migration von Flüchtlingen; verhinderte Dekolonisierung; agency; durable solutions; impeded decolonisation; refugees' transnational migration; Saharawi refugee camps; Western Sahara conflict
Document language
German
Publication Year
2015
Page/Pages
p. 260-280
Journal
PERIPHERIE - Politik, Ökonomie, Kultur, 35 (2015) 2
Issue topic
Dis-Placement: Flüchtlinge zwischen Orten
DOI
https://doi.org/10.3224/peripherie.v35i138-139.24299
ISSN
2366-4185
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed