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Researching Refugees and Forced Migration in Eastern and Horn of Africa: Introducing the Issues Read chapter Read first chapter

2019 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

State Sovereignty vs. Refugees’ Resilience: Repatriation, Securitization, and Transnationalism in Dadaab

Author : Abdulkadir Osman Farah

Published in: Refugees and Forced Migration in the Horn and Eastern Africa

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

Focusing on state-civic dynamics in refugee repatriation schemes, this contribution aims to go beyond the conventional understanding of refugees as victims. It proposes a dialectical process of interconnected state actions, humanitarian concerns, and refugee responses. Employing Simmel’s form and content analysis to better understand and explain the dynamics of transnational formations, the study empirically highlights refugee responses to Dadaab policy discourses by Kenyan authorities. Apart from the analysis of documents from Kenyan authorities, the UN, and NGOs, the work builds on a fieldwork method among 25 refugees both in Kenya and in Somalia as well as interviews with transnational community members in Denmark.
The study finds that though formally occupying different roles, states and humanitarian organizations collaborate in the implementation of refugee state policies letting the displaced to seek civic—mainly transnational and communal—alternatives.

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previous chapter “We Cannot Manage This Plight Alone Anymore”: Analysing the Kenyan Threats to Forcibly Repatriate All Somali Refugees from Dadaab Camp
next chapter Forging Associations Across Multiple Spaces: How Somali Kinship Practices Sustain the Existence of the Dadaab Camps in Kenya
Footnotes
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Unfortunately just few months in his political life, he was killed by militias within the Somali army in Mogadishu. Somalia attack: Minister Abas Abdullahi Sheikh killed in Mogadishu (https://​www.​bbc.​com/​news/​world-africa-39799961)—Accessed in 16-07-2018.
 
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Metadata
Title
State Sovereignty vs. Refugees’ Resilience: Repatriation, Securitization, and Transnationalism in Dadaab
Author
Abdulkadir Osman Farah
Copyright Year
2019
Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Book
Refugees and Forced Migration in the Horn and Eastern Africa

Print ISBN: 978-3-030-03720-8

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-030-03721-5

Copyright Year: 2019

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-03721-5_14