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Reluctant Reception

Reluctant Reception

Hardcover

General Political ScienceSocial Movements

ISBN10: 1108842364
ISBN13: 9781108842365
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Nov 12 2020
Pages: 278
Weight: 1.19
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: 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.

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