Refugee Dignity in Protracted Exile: Rights, Capabilities and Legal Empowerment
Anna Lise Purkey, "Refugee Dignity in Protracted Exile: Rights, Capabilities and Legal Empowerment "
English | ISBN: 0367349531 | 2019 | 206 pages | PDF | 1287 KB
English | ISBN: 0367349531 | 2019 | 206 pages | PDF | 1287 KB
This book investigates how effective human rights and the inherent dignity of refugees can be secured in situations of protracted exile and encampment. The book deploys an innovative human rights-based capabilities approach to address fundamental questions relating to law, power, governance, responsibility, and accountability in refugee camps.
Adopting an original theoretical framework, the author demonstrates that legal empowerment can change the distribution of power in a given refugee situation, facilitating the exercise of individual agency and assisting in the reform of the opportunity structure available to the individual. Thus, by helping to increase the capability of refugees to participate actively in the decisions that most affect their core rights and interests, participatory approaches to legal empowerment can also assist in securing other capabilities, ultimately ensuring that refugees are able to live dignified lives while in protracted exile.
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