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Securitization and community-based protection among Chin refugees in Kuala Lumpur

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McConnachie, Kirsten (2019) Securitization and community-based protection among Chin refugees in Kuala Lumpur. Social & Legal Studies, 28 (2). pp. 158-178. doi:10.1177/0964663918755891 ISSN 0964-6639.

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Abstract

This article examines refugee-led community organizations among Chin refugees from Myanmar in Kuala Lumpur. It uses a structuration analysis that recognizes refugee-led organizations as complex governance entities engaged in a dynamic relationship with (among others) national policies of securitization of forced migration and international humanitarian governance. This approach expands the existing literature on the securitization of forced migration by exploring refugees’ lived experiences in a context of south–south migration. It expands the literature on community-based protection by going beyond recognizing the existence of refugee-led organizations to analyse their construction, constitution and consequences. Three primary areas of work by Chin refugee groups are analysed in relation to their immediate activity and longer term effects: organization (‘building ethnic unity in adversity’), documentation (‘asserting a bureaucratic identity’) and socialization (‘learning to be illegal’). These long-term effects indicate the possible impact of local protection activities on macrostructural processes such as identity construction and migration choices.

Item Type: Journal Article
Subjects: H Social Sciences > HT Communities. Classes. Races
Divisions: Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Law
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): Burma -- Emigration and immigration, Refugees -- Malaysia -- Kuala Lumpur, Community organization -- Malaysia -- Kuala Lumpur
Journal or Publication Title: Social & Legal Studies
Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd.
ISSN: 0964-6639
Official Date: 1 April 2019
Dates:
DateEvent
1 April 2019Published
9 March 2018Available
7 January 2018Accepted
Volume: 28
Number: 2
Page Range: pp. 158-178
DOI: 10.1177/0964663918755891
Status: Peer Reviewed
Publication Status: Published
Access rights to Published version: Restricted or Subscription Access
Date of first compliant deposit: 27 March 2018
Date of first compliant Open Access: 27 March 2018
RIOXX Funder/Project Grant:
Project/Grant IDRIOXX Funder NameFunder ID
UNSPECIFIEDJohn Fell Fund, University of Oxfordhttp://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100004789
UNSPECIFIEDOckenden Internationalhttps://lccn.loc.gov/nb2010010112

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