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Author Abdelaaty, Lamis Elmy, author

Title Discrimination and delegation : explaining state responses to refugees / Lamis Elmy Abdelaaty
Published New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2021]
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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 233 pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents Selective sovereignty and the refugee regime -- The role of foreign policy and ethnic politics -- Cross-national trends in refugee status -- Politics overtakes policy in Egypt -- Selective protection in Turkey -- Refugee debates in Kenya -- The implications of selective sovereignty for refugee rights
Summary "What explains state responses to the refugees they receive? This book identifies two puzzling patterns: states open their borders to some refugee groups while blocking others (discrimination), and a number of countries have given the UN control of asylum procedures and refugee camps on their territory (delegation). To explain this selective exercise of sovereignty, the book develops a two-part theoretical framework in which policymakers in refugee-receiving countries weigh international and domestic concerns. Internationally, leaders use refugees in order to reassure allies and exert pressure on rivals. Domestically, policymakers have incentives to favor those refugee groups with whom they share an ethnic identity. When these international and domestic incentives conflict, shifting responsibility to the UN allows policymakers to placate both refugee-sending countries and domestic constituencies. The book then carries out a "three-stage, multi-level" research design in which each successive step corroborates and elaborates the findings of the preceding stage. The first stage involves statistical analysis of asylum admissions worldwide. The second stage presents two country case studies: Egypt (a country that is broadly representative of most refugee recipients) and Turkey (an outlier that has limited the geographic application of the Refugee Convention). The third stage zooms in on sub- or within-country dynamics in Kenya (home to one of the largest refugee populations in the world) through content analysis of parliamentary proceedings. Studying state responses to refugees is instructive because it can help explain why states sometimes assert, and at other times cede, their sovereignty in the face of refugee rights"-- Provided by publisher
Notes Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--Princeton University, 2014, titled Selective sovereignty : foreign policy, ethnic identity, and the politics of asylum
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (Oxford Scholarship Online, viewed June 16, 2021)
Subject Refugees -- Government policy.
Emigration and immigration -- Government policy.
Emigration and immigration -- Political aspects.
Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects.
International agencies.
Sovereignty.
international organizations.
sovereignty.
Emigration and immigration -- Government policy
Emigration and immigration -- Political aspects
Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects
International agencies
Refugees -- Government policy
Sovereignty
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2020030370
ISBN 0197530087
9780197530092
0197530095
9780197530085
9780197530078
0197530079