Between Protection and Harm: Negotiated Vulnerabilities in Asylum Laws and Bureaucracies (2025) (IMISCOE Research Series)

By: Luc Leboeuf and Cathrine Brun and Hilde Lidén and Sabrina Marchetti and Delphine Nakache and Sylvie Sarolea

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Synopsis: This open access book dissects the current narratives of ‘vulnerability’ in asylum laws and policies, by unpacking the meanings, productions, and performances, of ‘vulnerability’ in different contexts, from countries of first asylum in the Global South to Europe and Canada. It discusses how the increased reliance on ‘vulnerability’ to guide states’ replies to refugee movements improves refugee protection, while also generating contestations and exclusionary effects that may cause harm. Based on data collected as part of the EU Horizon 2020 VULNER project, the book examines existing legal and bureaucratic approaches to refugees’ vulnerabilities, which it confronts with the refugees’ experiences and understandings of their own life challenges. It analyses the perspectives from state actors, humanitarian organisations, and social and aid workers, as well as the refugees themselves. By emphasizing how these perspectives relate and feed into each other, the book unpacks the humanitarian replies from states and the international community to refugee movements – including in their implied exclusionary dimensions that generate contestations and implementation difficulties which, if not tackled and understood properly, risk exacerbating and/or producing vulnerabilities among refugees.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:: 9783031698088
Related ISBNs:: 9783031698071
Publisher:: Springer Nature Switzerland
Date of Addition:: 12/13/24
Copyrighted By:: The Editor
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Nonfiction, Business and Finance, Social Studies, Law, Legal Issues and Ethics, Politics and Government, Sociology
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:: Luc Leboeuf
Edited by:: Cathrine Brun
Edited by:: Hilde Lidén
Edited by:: Sabrina Marchetti
Edited by:: Delphine Nakache
Edited by:: Sylvie Sarolea