Beyond rights-based social protection for refugees

IF 1.5 Q2 POLITICAL SCIENCE Global Social Policy Pub Date : 2023-02-16 DOI:10.1177/14680181231154709
Tahir Zaman, M. Collyer, R. Sabates‐Wheeler, Carolina Szyp
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The use of social protection measures has garnered increasing attention in recent years from academics and policymakers aspiring to unite the humanitarian origins and development ambitions of displacement governance regimes. Much of this attention has been focused on establishing and strengthening national systems of social protection provision. Analysis of policy approaches to social protection has become increasingly detailed, but typically does not extend beyond formal rights-based provision. This article seeks to address the paucity of literature on how refugees strategise around access to social assistance beyond Northern-mandated approaches. We review existing research on Syrian displacement in Lebanon to interrogate assumptions that refugees automatically seek institutionalised assistance. Drawing on postcolonial literature, we explore why modalities of social and humanitarian assistance offered through a rights-based approach represent only a partial mapping of the social protection that refugees avail themselves of. In doing so, we signal a move beyond the narrow and restrictive binary of formal/informal and attempt to consider the range of social protection opportunities from the perspective of refugees. Though unequal, we argue that both national systems of social protection provision and alternative approaches identified by displaced people are currently necessary, although a language of rights is only applicable to the former. Ultimately, greater coordination between the two is required. In conclusion, this article describes directions for future research aimed at a holistic understanding of how social protection is accessed in displacement and a more explicit interrogation of the impact of social protection measures in displacement settings.
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超越基于权利的难民社会保护
近年来,社会保护措施的使用引起了学术界和政策制定者越来越多的关注,他们希望将流离失所治理制度的人道主义起源和发展目标结合起来。这种注意的大部分集中在建立和加强提供社会保护的国家制度。对社会保护政策办法的分析越来越详细,但通常没有超出基于权利的正式规定。本文旨在解决关于难民如何在北方强制方法之外获得社会援助的战略方面缺乏文献的问题。我们回顾了关于叙利亚在黎巴嫩流离失所的现有研究,以质疑难民自动寻求制度化援助的假设。利用后殖民文献,我们探讨了为什么通过基于权利的方法提供的社会和人道主义援助模式只代表了难民利用的社会保护的部分映射。在这样做的过程中,我们标志着超越正式/非正式的狭隘和限制性二元对立,并试图从难民的角度考虑各种社会保护机会。虽然不平等,但我们认为,提供社会保护的国家系统和流离失所者确定的替代方法目前都是必要的,尽管权利的语言只适用于前者。最终,两者之间需要更大的协调。最后,本文描述了未来研究的方向,旨在全面了解流离失所者如何获得社会保护,并更明确地询问流离失所环境中社会保护措施的影响。
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Global Social Policy
Global Social Policy POLITICAL SCIENCE-
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3.20
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期刊介绍: Global Social Policy is a fully peer-reviewed journal that advances the understanding of the impact of globalisation processes upon social policy and social development on the one hand, and the impact of social policy upon globalisation processes on the other hand. The journal analyses the contributions of a range of national and international actors, both governmental and non-governmental, to global social policy and social development discourse and practice. Global Social Policy publishes scholarly policy-oriented articles and reports that focus on aspects of social policy and social and human development as broadly defined in the context of globalisation be it in contemporary or historical contexts.
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