Tara Polzer
Biographic Data
| ID | 3563326 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tara Polzer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tara |
| FAMILY NAME | Polzer |
| SIGNATURE | POLZER T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of the Witwatersrand |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 30 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Invisible Integration
This paper shows how successfully integrated refugees are often made invisible to institutions, academics and within social contexts. It argues that certain elements of social and institutional categorization processes—including partiality, functionality, conflation, immutability, self-confirmation and negotiability— tend to obscure people who are integrated. The paper presents a case study which juxtaposes the ways in which three different kinds…
Invisible Integration
This paper shows how successfully integrated refugees are often made invisible to institutions, academics and within social contexts. It argues that certain elements of social and institutional categorization processes—including partiality, functionality, conflation, immutability, self-confirmation and negotiability—tend to obscure people who are integrated. The paper presents a case study which juxtaposes the ways in which three different kinds …
Responding to Zimbabwean migration in South Africa
Zimbabwean migration into South Africa represents a challenge to standard global models for responding to large-scale migration flows. South Africa's existing legal and institutional infrastructure for migration management and refugee protection is not adequate for responding to this challenge and yet the country has not planned or implemented alternative responses. The paper outlines the complex 'mixed' nature of current Zimbabwean migration to …
Adapting to Changing Legal Frameworks
This paper argues that legal frameworks to manage immigration and refugee rights need to be understood from below, namely, how they are interpreted and used locally by the immigrants affected and by the host communities, in their specific historical context. Using the case of Mozambican refugees in South Africa (1985-2006), the paper outlines why many of the policies targeted at or affecting this group of immigrants have had counterproductive eff…
The Afrikaners
Negotiating Rights
Advocacy campaigns against the “warehousing” of refugees in camps suggest the facilitation of local integration as a preferred policy option for states, international organizations, and non-governmental organizations. This paper argues that the institutions, assumptions, and habits that the international refugee protection system has developed over the past forty years hinder our understanding of local integration as a fundamentally political and…
Invisible Integration
This paper shows how successfully integrated refugees are often made invisible to institutions, academics and within social contexts. It argues that certain elements of social and institutional categorization processes—including partiality, functionality, conflation, immutability, self-confirmation and negotiability—tend to obscure people who are integrated. The paper presents a case study which juxtaposes the ways in which three different kinds …
Negotiating Rights
Advocacy campaigns against the “warehousing” of refugees in camps suggest the facilitation of local integration as a preferred policy option for states, international organizations, and non-governmental organizations. This paper argues that the institutions, assumptions, and habits that the international refugee protection system has developed over the past forty years hinder our understanding of local integration as a fundamentally political and…
The Afrikaners
Invisible Integration
This paper shows how successfully integrated refugees are often made invisible to institutions, academics and within social contexts. It argues that certain elements of social and institutional categorization processes—including partiality, functionality, conflation, immutability, self-confirmation and negotiability— tend to obscure people who are integrated. The paper presents a case study which juxtaposes the ways in which three different kinds…
Responding to Zimbabwean migration in South Africa
Zimbabwean migration into South Africa represents a challenge to standard global models for responding to large-scale migration flows. South Africa's existing legal and institutional infrastructure for migration management and refugee protection is not adequate for responding to this challenge and yet the country has not planned or implemented alternative responses. The paper outlines the complex 'mixed' nature of current Zimbabwean migration to …
Negotiating Rights
Advocacy campaigns against the “warehousing” of refugees in camps suggest the facilitation of local integration as a preferred policy option for states, international organizations, and non-governmental organizations. This paper argues that the institutions, assumptions, and habits that the international refugee protection system has developed over the past forty years hinder our understanding of local integration as a fundamentally political and…
The Afrikaners
Adapting to Changing Legal Frameworks
This paper argues that legal frameworks to manage immigration and refugee rights need to be understood from below, namely, how they are interpreted and used locally by the immigrants affected and by the host communities, in their specific historical context. Using the case of Mozambican refugees in South Africa (1985-2006), the paper outlines why many of the policies targeted at or affecting this group of immigrants have had counterproductive eff…
Invisible Integration
This paper shows how successfully integrated refugees are often made invisible to institutions, academics and within social contexts. It argues that certain elements of social and institutional categorization processes—including partiality, functionality, conflation, immutability, self-confirmation and negotiability—tend to obscure people who are integrated. The paper presents a case study which juxtaposes the ways in which three different kinds …
Responding to Zimbabwean migration in South Africa
Zimbabwean migration into South Africa represents a challenge to standard global models for responding to large-scale migration flows. South Africa's existing legal and institutional infrastructure for migration management and refugee protection is not adequate for responding to this challenge and yet the country has not planned or implemented alternative responses. The paper outlines the complex 'mixed' nature of current Zimbabwean migration to …
Invisible Integration
This paper shows how successfully integrated refugees are often made invisible to institutions, academics and within social contexts. It argues that certain elements of social and institutional categorization processes—including partiality, functionality, conflation, immutability, self-confirmation and negotiability— tend to obscure people who are integrated. The paper presents a case study which juxtaposes the ways in which three different kinds…
Political science (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Refugee (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Politics (4 works) · HIV/AIDS Impact and Responses (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Bureaucracy (2 works) · Categorization (2 works) · Conflation (2 works)