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Forced displacement and migration remain at the forefront of global political debates, and the Arab region has played an oversized role in hosting refugees. Yet a paucity of literature exists on how the region has contributed to shaping the international refugee regime.
This anthology presents the first comprehensive study of how Arab states interact with the international refugee regime. It presents a wide range of case studies and offers a multidisciplinary perspective bringing together historical, political, legal, sociological, and anthropological approaches. The anthology explores how Arab states have created norms and practices of refugee governance beyond – and not necessarily aligned with – international refugee law. It also analyses how Arab states, as norm challengers, have negotiated, contested, and reframed international practices, agreements, and processes. In doing so, the book ‘de-exceptionalizes’ the Arab region, casting states and societies as norm shapers with an impact on global refugee politics beyond the Arab world.
Foreword, James C. Hathaway
Refugee Governance in the Arab World: The International Refugee Regime and Global Politics: An Introduction, Tamirace Fakhoury and Dawn Chatty
Part I: Refugee Hosting Imaginaries and their Reproduction
Chapter 1: The Genealogy of a Political Concept: ‘Refugee’ or the Europeanisation of the World-System, Matthieu Rey
Chapter 2, Continental Containment: Crafting Arab Middle East “Host States”, Are John Knudsen
Part II: How Do Arab States Shape and Interact with the International Refugee Regime?
Chapter 3: Refugees and Arab States: The New Norm-al?, Dallal Stevens
Chapter 4: Lebanon and the Establishment of International Refugee Law, Maja Janmyr
Chapter 5: Maghreb States in the International Refugee Regime: Between Strategic Alignment, Alternative Pathways, and Confrontations, Katharina Natter and Lea Müller-Funk
Chapter 6: The Refugee Rentier State and Norm Manipulation in the Arab World, Gerasimos Tsourapas
Chapter 7: The Irreducibility of Refugee Governance in the MENA Region, Jean-Pierre Cassarino
Chapter 8: Juxtaposing Policy and Practice: An Analysis of ‘Local Integration’ in MENA Host States, Rawan Arar
Part III: Making Sense of Norm Entanglements: Refugees’ Everyday Lives
Chapter 9: Bread, Aalt, and Book-Keeping – The Shaweesh as the Interface between Syrian Refugees and the Humanitarian System in Lebanon, Ann-Christin Zuntz, Mackenzie Klema, Shaher Abdullateef, Esraa Almashhor, Salim Faisal Alnabolsi, Sinem Sefa Akay, Bürge Akbulut, Selin Ayaes, Ertan Karabiyik and Lisa Boden
Chapter 10: Landlord–Shaweesh Power-Nexus and Repercussions on Syrian Refugees’ Coping Mechanisms and ‘Waiting’ Modalities: Informal Tented Settlements along the Lebanese Syrian Borderscape in Beqaa Governorate, Paul Moawad
Conclusion, Tamirace Fakhoury
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