Reluctant Reception: Refugees, Migration and Governance in the Middle East and North Africa
Cambridge University Press, 11/12/2020
EAN 9781108842365, ISBN10: 1108842364
Hardcover, 240 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.8 cm
Language: English
Originally published in English
Seeking to understand why host states treat migrants and refugees inclusively, exclusively, or without any direct engagement, Kelsey P. Norman offers this original, comparative analysis of the politics of asylum seeking and migration in the Middle East and North Africa. While current classifications of migrant and refugee engagement in the Global South mistake the absence of formal policy and law for neglect, Reluctant Reception proposes the concept of 'strategic indifference', where states proclaim to be indifferent toward migrants and refugees, thereby inviting international organizations and local NGOs to step in and provide services on the state's behalf. Using the cases of Egypt, Morocco and Turkey to develop her theory of 'strategic indifference', Norman demonstrates how, by allowing migrants and refugees to integrate locally into large informal economies, and by allowing organizations to provide basic services, host countries receive international credibility while only exerting minimal state resources.
1. Introduction
migration in the Global North and South
2. Host state engagement in the Middle East and North Africa
3. Egypt
from strategic indifference to post-revolutionary repression
4. Morocco
from raids and roundups to a new politics of migration
5. Turkey
from strategic indifference to institutionalized control
6. Differential treatment by nationality? Ethnicity, religion, and race
7. The domestic influence of international actors
UNHCR and IOM's role in host state policy outcomes
8. The post-2015 migration paradigm in the Mediterranean
9. Conclusion and avenues forward.