Durable Resolutions

Dispersal, Time, and Community Justice in Exile

Datos Bibliográficos

ID6015461
AutoresYotam Gidron (0000-0002-1408-7085, autor de correspondencia)
Año2023
Volumen7
Número1
Páginas1-30
Fecha de publicación2023-06-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Legal Anthropology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1758-9584 • E-ISSN: 1758-9576
EditorialBerghahn Books (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.3167/jla.2023.070102
OpenAlexW4387808513
IdiomaEN
Referencias citadas29

Studies that examine the administration of justice in refugee camps highlight the legal plurality that commonly characterizes such sites, and the normative friction it creates between government and humanitarian institutions and community structures. Drawing upon research among South Sudanese refugees in Uganda and Ethiopia, this article foregrounds the place of transnational networks and temporal experiences in shaping processes of dispute resolution among refugees. South Sudanese refugees regularly turn to community structures to arbitrate disputes, even when these disputes relate to crimes that, under the laws of host states, must be reported to the authorities. As opposed to the individualized formal justice systems of host states, which are limited by borders, community justice links refugees across countries, draws on understandings of past communal events and relationships, prioritizes communal harmony and order, and thus produces a sense of continuity under conditions of dispersal and extreme precarity

Criminology · Dispute resolution · Economic Justice · Harmony (color · Normative · Political economy · Political science · Refugee · Restorative justice · Sociology · Transitional justice · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics · Law · North African History and Literature · Political Conflict and Governance