Beyond Simply ‘Return’: How IDP Mobility, Agency and Self-Identification Contradict the Underpinnings of Refugee Policy

ASR (Asian Social Research) was first launched in 2014 by Chiang Mai University. However, it has a longer history, with its genesis in 2002 as part of Chiang Mai University Journal.This journal was split into two in 2007, with the formation of ASR's predecessor, the Chiang Mai University Journa...

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Main Author:	Elliot Lodge
Language:	English
Published:	Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Chiang Mai University 2020
Subjects:	IDPs Migration Mobility Karen Myanmar Refugee return Repatriation Displacement Durable solutions
Online Access:	http://cmuj.cmu.ac.th/uploads/asr_journal_list_index/380448956.pdf http://cmuir.cmu.ac.th/jspui/handle/6653943832/68656
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spelling	th-cmuir.6653943832-686562020-05-20T04:41:50Z Beyond Simply ‘Return’: How IDP Mobility, Agency and Self-Identification Contradict the Underpinnings of Refugee Policy Elliot Lodge IDPs Migration Mobility Karen Myanmar Refugee return Repatriation Displacement Durable solutions ASR (Asian Social Research) was first launched in 2014 by Chiang Mai University. However, it has a longer history, with its genesis in 2002 as part of Chiang Mai University Journal.This journal was split into two in 2007, with the formation of ASR's predecessor, the Chiang Mai University Journal of social Sciences and Humanities, which was later restyled as ASR in 2014, and began publishing online in 2015. By framing ‘repatriation’ and ‘return’ as the most common of the three ‘durable solutions’, the global framework for managing people in situations of protracted displacement accounts only for the limited mobility of individuals with refugee status back to the locality they fled. By its very nature, it places unrealistic efforts at achieving sustainable outcomes on broader processes of peace and resettlement, that are assumed to provide appropriate conditions for return, but rarely do so. The Internally Displaced People (IDPs) of Ee Tu Hta in Karen State, Myanmar, are a vivid representation of how this system fails to understand, let alone engage, with common experiences of mobility. After more than a decade of international assistance, the camp has faced a cessation in humanitarian food aid and as a result people are making strategic choices on how to sustain livelihoods for themselves and their families. While there are elements that are specific to this particular example, a glance at similar situations, both in Asia and beyond, suggests that people termed as ‘displaced’ are often in continuous movement - both within and across national boundaries - and, even while staying in a fixed location, their agency, political association and sense of place undermines the assumptions of the structures designed to manage the ‘displaced’. This research explores the experiences of people in Ee Tu Hta vis-à-vis these assumptions. In doing so, the research questions the viability of a system that assumes that displaced people seek to return home in large numbers. 2020-05-20T04:41:50Z 2020-05-20T04:41:50Z 2018 ASR: Chiang Mai University.Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities 5,1 (Jan- 2018), p.54-79 2465-4329 http://cmuj.cmu.ac.th/uploads/asr_journal_list_index/380448956.pdf http://cmuir.cmu.ac.th/jspui/handle/6653943832/68656 Eng Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Chiang Mai University
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topic	IDPs Migration Mobility Karen Myanmar Refugee return Repatriation Displacement Durable solutions
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description	ASR (Asian Social Research) was first launched in 2014 by Chiang Mai University. However, it has a longer history, with its genesis in 2002 as part of Chiang Mai University Journal.This journal was split into two in 2007, with the formation of ASR's predecessor, the Chiang Mai University Journal of social Sciences and Humanities, which was later restyled as ASR in 2014, and began publishing online in 2015.
author	Elliot Lodge
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title	Beyond Simply ‘Return’: How IDP Mobility, Agency and Self-Identification Contradict the Underpinnings of Refugee Policy
title_short	Beyond Simply ‘Return’: How IDP Mobility, Agency and Self-Identification Contradict the Underpinnings of Refugee Policy
title_full	Beyond Simply ‘Return’: How IDP Mobility, Agency and Self-Identification Contradict the Underpinnings of Refugee Policy
title_fullStr	Beyond Simply ‘Return’: How IDP Mobility, Agency and Self-Identification Contradict the Underpinnings of Refugee Policy
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publisher	Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Chiang Mai University
publishDate	2020
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