III.4.7. Governance and globalization

Main Debates

  • Are resources in the protection of refugees shared equally?
  • Should each region shoulder its burden in the protection of refugees?
  • In the context of the changing nature of forced displacement, who should have an entitlement to cross an international border and seek asylum?

Main Points

  • Disparities between the South and the North
  • The South-North debate

Since its beginnings the modern refugee regime has been progressively implemented, becoming increasingly more operational and international in scope. Today the regime faces a period of transition, forced to adapt to increasing refugee flows and enhanced restrictions among its member states.

Readings

Core

  1. E. Aukot, ‘The Plight of Refugees as a Quest for Good Governance: Critically Imagining Refugees’ Influence on the Democratic Process of a Host Community in Kenya’, Recht in Afrika, no. 2 (2003), pp. 109–138.
  2. B. S. Chimni, ‘The Geopolitics of Refugee Studies: A View from the South’, Journal of Refugee Studies, vol. 11, no. 4 (1998), pp. 350–374.
  3. B. Rutinwa, ‘Presence of Refugees: Impact on Local Governance and Administration’, The African, 16 July 2004, p. 10.
  4. A. Suhrke, ‘Burden-Sharing During Refugee Emergencies: The Logic of Collective versus National Action’, Journal of Refugee Studies, vol. 11, no. 4 (1998), pp. 396–415.
  5. UNHCR, ‘Good governance and the evolution of the international refugee regime’, New Issues in Refugee Research, Working Paper No. 54.

Extended

  1. A. Betts, ‘Global governance of migration and the role of trans-regionalism’, in R. Kunz, S. Lavenex and M. Panizzon (eds), Multilayered Migration Governance: The Promise of Partnership, (London: Routledge, 2012).
  2. A. Betts, ‘The migration industry in global migration governance’ in T. Gammeltoft-Hansen and N. Nyberg Sorensen (eds), The Migration Industry and the Commercialization of International Migration, (London: Routledge, 2012).
  3. A. Betts, Survival Migration: Failed Governance and the Crisis of Displacement, (New York: Cornell University Press, 2013).
  4. P. J. Ngandwe, ‘The Paradox of Migration and the Interests of Atomistic Nation-States: the Southern African Perspective’, Potchefstroom Electronic Law Journal, vol. 6, no. 1, 2013.
  5. A. Betts, ‘International Cooperation and Targeting Development Assistance for Refugees Solution: Lessons from the 1980’, New Issues in Refugees Research, Working Paper No. 107, 2004.
  6. J. Hyndman, ‘Refugee Self-Management and the Question of Governance’, Refuge, vol. 16, no. 2 (1997), pp. 16–22.
  7. J. Milner, ‘Sharing the Security Burden: Towards the Convergence of Refugee Protection and State Security’, Working Paper Series No. 4, (Oxford: University of Oxford, May 2000).
  8. O. Sadako, ‘Solidarity and Nation Building: The Case of Refugees’, East African Journal of Peace and Human Rights, vol. 5, no.1 (1998).