Assessing Advocacies for Forcibly Displaced People: A Comprehensive Approach

Arsène Brice Bado ()
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Arsène Brice Bado: Laval University and Visiting Researcher at Yale University

Journal of International Migration and Integration, 2016, vol. 17, issue 2, No 15, 593-603

Abstract: Abstract This article assesses various advocacy practices for forcibly displaced people (FDP) through the analysis of advocacy networks, the examination of the goals that they pursue, and their ways of working. Three basic approaches, the welfare-based, the legal-based, and the capability-based approaches, are assessed. From this assessment, this study suggests the recognition of shared humanity as an entry point for advocacy, which offers a cosmopolitan understanding of rights and duties, and the most comprehensive protection for FDP. The main argument of this study is that if the demand for recognition is not heard, relief for refugees and other displaced people will lack an essential dimension. It is the demand to be recognized as human beings that engenders responsibility for forced migrants. Instead of prescribing a list of what to do, or not to do, this reflection has rather suggested a way of being and dealing with the forcibly displaced. This stance goes beyond the facility of typical responses that are known in advance.

Keywords: Advocacy; Capability; Human dignity; Human rights; Recognition; Refugee protection (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1007/s12134-015-0413-5

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