Refugee Dignity in Protracted Exile: Rights, Ca, Purkey Paperback..

Name: Refugee Dignity in Protracted Exile: Rights, Ca, Purkey Paperback..
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

Refugee Dignity in Protracted ExileRights, Capabilities and Legal Empowerment\nAuthor(s): Anna Lise Purkey\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781032082882, 978-1032082882\nSynopsis\nThis 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.\n\nAdopting 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 a.