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Transnationale Migration - eine dauerhafte Perspektive? Saharauische Flüchtlinge zwischen agency und vulnerability

Transnational migration - a durable solution? Saharawi refugees between agency and vulnerability.
[journal article]

Zwick, Maja

Abstract

Recently, scholars have advocated transnationalism as a viable and durable solution to displacement, stating that transnational mobility and networks have become an important means of sustaining refugees and, thus, increasing their agency. Drawing on the case of the Saharawi refugee camps, one of th... view more

Recently, scholars have advocated transnationalism as a viable and durable solution to displacement, stating that transnational mobility and networks have become an important means of sustaining refugees and, thus, increasing their agency. Drawing on the case of the Saharawi refugee camps, one of the most protracted refugee situations worldwide, this paper takes a critical approach to these assumptions. First, it shows that while transnational migration may strengthen refugees' agency it is also accompanied by new vulnerabilities. Second, it is argued that favouring transnational migration as a "durable" solution risks normalising the status quo of the Saharawi's protracted displacement, instead of engaging with solutions for the Western Sahara conflict itself; that is, ending the Moroccan occupation and decolonising Western Sahara.... view less

Keywords
migration; refugee; Western Sahara; network; vulnerability; capacity to act; exile; Algeria; North Africa

Classification
Migration, Sociology of Migration

Free Keywords
saharauische Flüchtlingslager; transnationale Migration von Flüchtlingen; verhinderte Dekolonisierung; agency; durable solutions; impeded decolonisation; refugees' transnational migration; Saharawi refugee camps; Western Sahara conflict

Document language
German

Publication Year
2015

Page/Pages
p. 260-280

Journal
PERIPHERIE - Politik, Ökonomie, Kultur, 35 (2015) 2

Issue topic
Dis-Placement: Flüchtlinge zwischen Orten

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3224/peripherie.v35i138-139.24299

ISSN
2366-4185

Status
Published Version; peer reviewed

Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0


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