Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, Elena;
Ager, Alastair;
Greatrick, Aydan;
(2021)
Understanding Local Responses to Displacement.
(Refugee Hosts Project – Recommendations for Research and Practice
1).
Refugee Hosts: London, UK.
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Abstract
Local communities play key roles in responding to displacement. They are often the first providers of assistance to refugees, offering hospitality, care and different forms of protection. Local responses are often shaped by long histories of displacement, including in urban refugee camps, towns and cities. Local responses also change over time, including as a result of changing international and national politics, policies and programmes. These changes may raise opportunities for local responses to be supported and consolidated, but may also create and reproduce different types of tensions between different people, groups and institutions. Despite all this, humanitarian engagement with local communities has often been limited, favouring vertical and less integrated responses, notwithstanding the ‘Localisation of Aid’ agenda. This Research Brief, based on the Refugee Hosts project’s research in nine neighbourhoods in Lebanon, Jordan and Turkey, calls for a more transformational and equitable commitment to engagement with local communities responding to displacement. Local communities should be seen as responders in their own right, with capacities, histories and knowledge that needs to be recognised by humanitarian practitioners.
Type: | Working / discussion paper |
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Title: | Understanding Local Responses to Displacement |
Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
Publisher version: | https://refugeehosts.org/ |
Language: | English |
Additional information: | This version is the version of record. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
UCL classification: | UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Dept of Geography UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL |
URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10148106 |




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