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Urban-local refugee management in Turkey: assessing the responses of local authorities and NGOs in Adana to the Syrian human flow
| Resumo: | Refugees are amongst the most vulnerable groups in existence, often resulting in large flows originated from warfare or serious human rights violations, with millions being forcibly displaced while seeking survival and human dignity elsewhere. The ongoing Syrian mass refugee flow is a phenomenon affecting millions of Syrians, and by extent the whole world, notably the countries nearby, and a quite revealing one of many shortcomings in the international refugee regime and in the international cooperation between actors regarding the safety and human rights of the Syrian refugees, leaving often the countries in the region to fend for themselves in managing these complex and numerous flows. Being a bordering country with Syria, Turkey is currently host to the largest number of refugees in the world, in a somewhat unhealthy political climate concerning Western cooperation. The present dissertation aims at understanding how local actors in Turkey have adapted and are continuously providing support to hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees, in a challenging multileveled (international, European, national, regional) political and institutional scenario, by focusing on the city of Adana and its various urban management responses. The ultimate utility of such case study is to expose the difficult relationship between the current body of refugee law emanated from the European Union and its operationalization in the field (outputs efficiency) resulting in a weak ensuring of the human rights of Syrian refugees. |
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| Autores principais: | Mavruk, Mine Ezgi |
| Assunto: | Syrian refugees Turkey Adana Local authorities NGOs International refugee regime Human rights Refugiados sírios Turquia Autoridades locais ONGs Regime internacional dos refugiados Direitos humanos |
| Ano: | 2019 |
| País: | Portugal |
| Tipo de documento: | dissertação de mestrado |
| Tipo de acesso: | acesso aberto |
| Instituição associada: | Universidade do Minho |
| Idioma: | inglês |
| Origem: | RepositóriUM - Universidade do Minho |
| Resumo: | Refugees are amongst the most vulnerable groups in existence, often resulting in large flows originated from warfare or serious human rights violations, with millions being forcibly displaced while seeking survival and human dignity elsewhere. The ongoing Syrian mass refugee flow is a phenomenon affecting millions of Syrians, and by extent the whole world, notably the countries nearby, and a quite revealing one of many shortcomings in the international refugee regime and in the international cooperation between actors regarding the safety and human rights of the Syrian refugees, leaving often the countries in the region to fend for themselves in managing these complex and numerous flows. Being a bordering country with Syria, Turkey is currently host to the largest number of refugees in the world, in a somewhat unhealthy political climate concerning Western cooperation. The present dissertation aims at understanding how local actors in Turkey have adapted and are continuously providing support to hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees, in a challenging multileveled (international, European, national, regional) political and institutional scenario, by focusing on the city of Adana and its various urban management responses. The ultimate utility of such case study is to expose the difficult relationship between the current body of refugee law emanated from the European Union and its operationalization in the field (outputs efficiency) resulting in a weak ensuring of the human rights of Syrian refugees. |
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