Blitz, BK;
(2021)
Protection through Revisionism?
In: Land, M and Libal, K and Chambers, J, (eds.)
Beyond Borders: The Human Rights of Non-Citizens at Home and Abroad.
(pp. 71-93).
Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, UK.
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Abstract
One problem complicating the task of humanitarian protection is the quality of data on the populations most affected. If protection agencies cannot identify those who need help, then their ambitions are unlikely to be realized. This is especially relevant when considering “invisible,” hard-to-reach, or historically marginalized groups such as stateless people for whom we have little baseline data. Undercounting is often a political matter. Who is counted also tells us about governmental and institutional priorities and exposes biases about what counts, and the ways in which resources should be allocated. This chapter presents a critical review of how statelessness has been underestimated by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and its partners. It argues that the process of undercounting is indicative of a revisionist turn in humanitarian management characterized by a fixation with numbers and “results.” The ways in which the UNHCR data are presented reflects an increasingly top-down logic that ignores the lived experience of stateless people and does little to advance the cause of humanitarian protection.
| Type: | Book chapter |
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| Title: | Protection through Revisionism? |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1017/9781108914994.006 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108914994.006 |
| Language: | English |
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| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10112989 |
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