Research Catalog

Title

The transformative potential of a vulnerability focus in basic assistance policies : a study on UNHCR and IOM in Sudan / Veronika Flegar.

Author

Flegar, Veronika Lydia Birgit, 1989-

Publication

• Cambridge : Intersentia Ltd, [2020]
• Chicago, IL : Independent Publishers Group
• ©2020

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Description

xxvii, 461 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

The term 'vulnerability' is often used in law and policy to refer to disadvantaged, marginalized or excluded human beings. Being 'in a vulnerable situation', belonging to 'a vulnerable group' or simply 'being vulnerable' are labels that policy makers, human rights advocates and others frequently use when seeking to address precariousness, deprivation, suffering and injustice. Why do we seem so fascinated by this term and its implications? What purpose and effect does the explicit pinpointing of vulnerability have? Does a focus on vulnerability actually help to improve the situation of the most disadvantaged and excluded? If so, how and under what circumstances? With these questions in mind, this book explores how a vulnerability focus in basic assistance policies can contribute to substantive equality and therefore to the realization of universal human rights in the migration context. The book concentrates on the potential that such a vulnerability focus can have 1) to mitigate stigmatization and stereotyping and 2) to facilitate socio-economic participation. To shed light on this potential, the book relies on two case studies, both set in Khartoum, Sudan. The first case study analyzes the vulnerability-focused basic assistance policy at the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), while the second case study centres on the vulnerability-focused basic assistance policy at the International Organization for Migration (IOM). The analyses concentrate on the perspectives and perceptions of basic assistance providers (i.e. the caseworkers and their direct superiors) who design and implement the respective basic assistance policies. The book provides deep insights into the policy practice of two UN agencies that seek to provide humanitarian assistance in the challenging operational environment of Sudan. The findings suggest normatively desirable and practically feasible procedures and activation measures that can help to provide just and effective assistance to vulnerable beneficiaries. The conclusions and recommendations in this book can therefore provide inspiration to researchers, policy makers and basic assistance providers well beyond the direct context of the two case studies.

Series Statement

• School of Human Rights Research series ; volume 92
• Human Rights Research Series ; [92]

Uniform Title

• School of Human Rights Research series ; v. 92.
• Human rights research series ; v. 92.

Subject

• United Nations. Commission on Human Rights
• International Organization for Migration
• Humanitarian assistance > Sudan
• Marginality, Social > Sudan
• Human rights > Sudan
• Human rights
• Humanitarian assistance
• Marginality, Social
• Sudan

Note

• Also published as thesis to obtain the degree of PhD at the University of Groningen, 2020.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 419-433).

Terms of Use (note)

• British Library not licensed to copy

Language (note)

• Includes summaries in Dutch and English.

Call Number

ReCAP 22-1458

ISBN

• 9781839700392
• 1839700394

OCLC

1241972567

Author

Flegar, Veronika Lydia Birgit, 1989- author.

Title

The transformative potential of a vulnerability focus in basic assistance policies : a study on UNHCR and IOM in Sudan / Veronika Flegar.

Publisher

Cambridge : Intersentia Ltd, [2020]

Distributor

Chicago, IL : Independent Publishers Group

Copyright Date

©2020

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

School of Human Rights Research series ; volume 92

Human Rights Research Series ; [92]

School of Human Rights Research series ; v. 92.

Human rights research series ; v. 92.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 419-433).

Terms Of Use

British Library not licensed to copy 0. Uk

Language

Includes summaries in Dutch and English.

Research Call Number

ReCAP 22-1458