The Geopolitics of Refugee Studies
A View from the South
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5848866 |
|---|---|
| Authors | B S Chimni (0000-0003-0755-9811, Jawaharlal Nehru University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1998 |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 350-374 |
| Publication date | 1998-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Refugee Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0951-6328 • E-ISSN: 1471-6925 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/jrs/11.4.350-a |
| OpenAlex | W2070761252 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 216 |
| References cited | 14 |
In the post-1945 period the policy of Northern states has moved from the neglect of refugees in the Third World, to their use as pawns in Cold War politics, to their containment now. The paper explores in these shifting policy contexts the geopolitics of knowledge production in the field of refugee studies. The arrival of the 'new asylum seekers' in the 1980s signalled the expansion of refugee studies. A 'new approach' took shape which critiqued the established positivist approach to refugee law and created the myth of difference (the idea that great dissimilarities characterized refugee flows in Europe and the Third World). It advocated the rejection of the exile bias of refugee law; reliance on the solution of voluntary repatriation; and responsibility of the state of physical origin. In legitimizing the 'new approach', a key role, so far ignored, has been played by the knowledge production and dissemination functions of UNHCR
Displaced person · Geopolitics · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Positivism · Refugee · Refugee law · Repatriation · Sociology · Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics · Law · Migration, Refugees, and Integration
Return and readmission policy in Europe
Gobernando a la persona internamente desplazada
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La movilidad transfonteriza
Unintended Consequences of Adjacency Claims
Geographies of asylum, legal knowledge and legal practices
New trends in migratory and refugee law in Brazil
Pandemic (Im)mobilities
Forced Migrants as ‘Illegal’ Migrants
The Refugee Problem from an Official Account
Beyond Sociology of Forced Migration
Protección Y Principio De Non-Refoulement en La Unión Europea
Re-examining the refugee seascape in comics
Precarious panels
As Long as There Is Art
Relational ethics of care in research with young people
The Figure of the Worker and the Figure of the Migrant
Knowing your past
Refuge 34.1 (Special Issue) Print Copy
The Internal Protection Alternative in Refugee Law
At Europe's Edge
The Securitization of Migration and Refugee Women
Borders, Asylum and Global Non-Citizenship
Minor keywords of political theory
Migration as Crisis
The Ethics and Politics of Asylum
Refugee mental health
Following Old Routes in New Times
Beyond the freedom of movement
Citizenship as compromise? Strategic statelessness and youth activism in Tibetan, Uyghur, and Baloch exile communities
Mixed Migration and the vagaries of doctrine formation since 2015
La fabrique des réfugiés dans la Guerre froide
Racial and Colonial Aphasia in EU Border Security. The Case of the EU Pact on Migration and Asylum
Contested Refugeeness in the Lavrio Kurdish Camp After the 2015 Reception Crisis in Greece
The Politics of Climate Change Knowledge
Predictable patterns of unpredictability
Migration in the UNFCCC Workstream on Loss and Damage
Tracing the Coloniality of Queer and Trans Migrations
On Refugee Agency, Bio-Politics, and a New World
The International Relations of the “New” Extraterritorial Approaches to Refugee Protection
La « crise migratoire » de 2015/16 en Europe
Introduction
Humanizing Studies of Refuge and Displacement
Demarcating Boundaries
When ‘brothers and sisters’ become ‘foreigners’
H aunting N ational B oundaries
The Politics of Childhood and Asylum in the UK
The promise of refugee lifelong education
Autonomy of Asylum
Implementing the Refugee Resettlement Process
The borderization of waiting
Reframing refugee crisis
The Refugee-Migrant Distinction and the Need for Bridging Analytical Divides in the Historiography
Well-founded fear in international refugee law
Ethics in Forced Migration Research
The aporia of refugee rights in a time of crises
Method as Border
Migrant agency
Global public–private partnerships and the new constitutionalism of the refugee regime
Precarity of place
Between refuge and right
Chronopolitics
The Future of International Solidarity in Global Refugee Protection
Weighing responsibilities
Redefining the mobility paradigm in international law
Geographic Arbitrage to Morocco
Mobilising against detention and deportation
The modern state, the citizen, and the perilous refugee
Security perceptions and needs of unaccompanied minors
Changing Motivations or Capabilities? Migration Deterrence in the Global Context
Non-Western Agency in Refugee Humanitarianism
Colonial roots of the 1951 Refugee Convention and its effects on the global refugee regime
Nation and Empire
Detaining immigrants and asylum seekers
What Does ‘Efficiency’ Mean in the Context of the Global Refugee Regime
Social work with refugee and displaced populations in Europe
Syrian refugees in Turkey
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Finding education
People Out of Place'? Advocates' Negotiations on Children's Participation in the Asylum Application Process in Sweden
Refugee Studies and the international refugee regime
Whose Security
Introduction
What’s in a Category? The Politics of Not Being a Refugee
Working the ruins
Credible fictions
Three approaches to the 1951 Convention
Institutional analyses of refugee protection
Psychological research evidence in refugee status determination
What role for law in refugee studies? Towards a transdisciplinary agenda
Communities of Knowledge or Tyrannies of Partnership
South African War Resisters and the Ideologies of Return from Exile
Beyond the Partnership Debate
Migrant necropolitics in No Man’s Land camps
Refugee Research Methodologies
Ethnographic approaches and international refugee law
Religious Identity and Experiences of Displacement
The Politics of Return
No! I'm Not a Refugee!’ The Poetics of Be-Longing among Young Oromos in Toronto
Understanding the politics of refugee law and policy making
Refugees in Inter-War Europe
Approaches to World Order
From Asylum to Containment
Reconceiving Refugee Law as Human Rights Protection
On the Detention of Aliens
The Refugee and the World Community
International Organization and Industrial Change
The Right to Compensation
International organizations as teachers of norms
International migration and regional stability
The Refugee Problem
Refugees
Repatriation
| Unique citing works | 216 |
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| Citations per year | 7,71 |
| Citation span | 1998 - 2026 (29) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 208 |