Refugee Governance in the Arab World

Tamirace Fakhoury is Associate Professor of International Politics and Conflict at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, US. She is also the former visiting Kuwait Chair at Sciences Po in Paris. Tamirace has widely published on refugee and migration policy, and power-sharing in post-war societies.Dawn Chatty is Emeritus Professor of Anthropology and Forced Migration and Emeritus Fellow of St Cross College at the University of Oxford, UK. She is a Fellow of the British Academy. Her books include Syria: The Making and Unmaking of a Refuge State (2018) and Displacement and Dispossession in the Modern Middle East (2010).

• Foreword, James C. HathawayRefugee Governance in the Arab World: The International Refugee Regime and Global Politics: An Introduction, Tamirace Fakhoury and Dawn ChattyPart I: Refugee Hosting Imaginaries and their ReproductionChapter 1: The Genealogy of a Political Concept: ‘Refugee’ or the Europeanisation of the World-System, Matthieu ReyChapter 2, Continental Containment: Crafting Arab Middle East “Host States”, Are John KnudsenPart II: How Do Arab States Shape and Interact with the International Refugee Regime?Chapter 3: Refugees and Arab States: The New Norm-al?, Dallal StevensChapter 4: Lebanon and the Establishment of International Refugee Law, Maja JanmyrChapter 5: Maghreb States in the International Refugee Regime: Between Strategic Alignment, Alternative Pathways, and Confrontations, Katharina Natter and Lea Müller-FunkChapter 6: The Refugee Rentier State and Norm Manipulation in the Arab World, Gerasimos TsourapasChapter 7: The Irreducibility of Refugee Governance in the MENA Region, Jean-Pierre CassarinoChapter 8: Juxtaposing Policy and Practice: An Analysis of ‘Local Integration’ in MENA Host States, Rawan ArarPart III: Making Sense of Norm Entanglements: Refugees’ Everyday LivesChapter 9: Bread, Salt, and Book-Keeping – The Shaweesh as the Interface between Syrian Refugees and the Humanitarian System in Lebanon, Ann-Christin Zuntz, Mackenzie Klema, Shaher Abdullateef, Esraa Almashhor, Salim Faisal Alnabolsi, Sinem Sefa Akay, Bürge Akbulut, Selin Ayaes, Ertan Karabiyik and Lisa BodenChapter 10: Landlord–Shaweesh Power-Nexus and Repercussions on Syrian Refugees’ Coping Mechanisms and ‘Waiting’ Modalities: Informal Tented Settlements along the Lebanese Syrian Borderscape in Beqaa Governorate, Paul MoawadConclusion, Tamirace Fakhoury

Moving away from Eurocentric and Western-centric of migration studies and narratives, Chatty and Fakhoury gather an impressive set of researchers that provide the first systematic and coherent book that studies the agency of Arab world in refugee governance. Against the common assumption that essentialize Arab states as passive actors, this book is a needed addition to the work on decentering, and compiles fascinating accounts of how refugee governance norms are being shaped, contested, sometimes manipulated by various actors in the Arab world. This is a must-read for students, scholars and practitioners interested in migration and the MENA region.