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9 Refugees, resettlement and revolutionary violence in Semirech’e after the 1916 revolt Alexander Morrison Few aspects of the 1916 Central Asian Revolt are more controversial than the measures taken by the Russian Imperial authorities for its suppression. The Russian military historian Andrei Ganin regards these as entirely justified by the violence inflicted on Russian settlers by “savage” Kazakhs and Kyrgyz in July and August 1916, while he also assumes that they were limited to operations of the regular army against armed groups of rebels.1 By contrast, most
with individuals from refugee backgrounds. The book addresses the overarching question of how individuals from refugee backgrounds use digital technology to fulfil their communication and information needs. In doing so, Leung describes the scenarios and challenges that refugees face in the three stages that typically describe their journeys: before displacement, during displacement (in transit, refugee camps or detention centres) and resettlement. In her analysis, she rejects the simplistic
Introduction London, 10 September 2018 Since 2015, more than one and a half million people have traversed the Mediterranean, seeking asylum in Europe. The EU has been negotiating their screening and resettlement outside of Europe. European governments have closed some ports and borders to them. And neofascist groups from across Europe have rallied on the ground and online to prevent their entry. Thousands have died at sea. Multinational NGOs like Médecins Sans Frontières and Save the Children have carried out search
countries. Jordan is not a signatory of the 1951 Refugee Convention. A 1998 Memorandum of Understanding between the Government of Jordan and UNHCR provides the basis for recognition and treatment of refugees. Refugees registered with UNHCR are legally allowed a maximum stay of six months during which UNHCR should find a durable solution, be it voluntary repatriation to the country of origin or resettlement in a third country ( UNHCR and Government of Jordan
.mapgrafix.com/ ) MSF’s Footprint in Agok When MSF started supporting the Ministry of Health (MoH) in the Abyei Hospital in 2006 after long negotiations with both the North and the South, the initial rationale was to respond to the needs of a highly vulnerable population trapped by decades of conflict. In 2008, armed confrontations between the SAF and the SPLA caused almost the entire population of Abyei town to flee and MSF to resettle in Turalei and in Agok, while temporarily maintaining
government’s 40-meter no-build zone ( Figure 1 ). This allowed our team to gather substantive primary data from household members who experienced Haiyan but were not relocated. As of 2020, approximately 75,000 people from about 15,000 households have relocated to the 31 resettlement sites ( Tacloban City Housing and Community Development Office, 2020 ). Residents of Sagkahan are primarily lower income households. It is a densely populated settlement near the coastline. Given their proximity to the water, the residents experienced at first hand the typhoon’s ferocious
and accompanying bureaucratisation also contributed to shaping témoignage practices. As governments started instrumentalising humanitarian action to further their own ends – like in Ethiopia in the early 1980s to promote forced resettlement – témoignage became a means for MSF to resist such manipulation. MSF denounced the government’s forced relocation policies, shedding light on the human-induced character of the famine ( Weissman, 2011 : 34
stateless and the internally displaced, or the refugee from the local resident, each affected in their own way by the war. Other than his captions, there is little that distinguishes the refugees he photographed from other war-touched civilians he portrayed across Europe. Hine’s captions remain mute on the loss of political representation, or of the difficulties faced by some political, ethnic or religious groups versus others in (re)settling. This lack of detail may be the result of the broad and imprecise concept of refugees Hine was operating with. It is also a sign of
). Elliott , S. and Yusuf , I. ( 2014 ), ‘ “Yes, we can; but together”: Social Capital and Refugee Resettlement ’, Kōtuitui: New Zealand Journal of Social Sciences Online , 9 : 2 , 101 – 10 , doi: 10.1080/1177083X.2014.951662 . Ferlander , S
( London : ALNAP/ODI ), https://sohs.alnap.org/help-library/2022-the-state-of-the-humanitarian-system-sohs-–-summary (accessed 5 December 2022 ). Olliff , L. ( 2018 ), ‘ From Resettled Refugees to Humanitarian Actors: Refugee Diaspora Organizations and Everyday Humanitarianism ’, New Political