Governing Refugees: Justice, Order and Legal Pluralism – Kirsten McConnachie

Governing Refugees: Justice, Order and Legal Pluralism – Kirsten McConnachie

Author: Kirsten McConnachie

Publisher: Routledge

Print Length: 240 pages

Genre: Non-Fiction / Ethnic Studies, Non-Fiction / Law, Non-Fiction / Migration & Refugee Studies

Area: Burma, Thailand

Topic: Community, Conflict & Post-Conflict, Culture & Society, Ethics & Morality, Ethnic & Ethnicity, Governance, Justice, Language & Literature, Legality & Illegality, Nationalism, Pluralism, Refugees & Forced Migration, Self-Determination, Autonomy, Agency, Social Justice, Sovereignty

Refugee camps are imbued in the public imagination with assumptions of anarchy, danger and refugee passivity. Governing Refugees: Justice, Order and Legal Pluralism challenges such assumptions, arguing that refugee camps should be recognized as spaces where social capital can not only survive, but thrive.

This book examines camp management and the administration of justice in refugee camps on the Thailand-Burma border. Emphasising the work of refugees themselves in coping with and adapting to encampment, it considers themes of agency, sovereignty and legal pluralism in an analysis of local governance and the production of order beyond the state. Governing Refugees will appeal to anyone with relevant interests in law, anthropology and criminology, as well as those working in the area of refugee studies.

Acknowledgements 
A note on terminology 
Acronyms and abbreviations

1 Governing refugees

2 The Karen in Burma: confl ict and displacement

3 The camp community

4 The governance palimpsest: order maintenance
in Southeast Burma

5 Sovereigns and denizens: camp governance
and ‘the refugee’

6 The struggle for ownership of justice

7 Enacting interlegality: human rights and local justice

8 Beyond encampment

References
Index

Kirsten McConnachie is Professor of Socio-Legal Studies at the University of East Anglia and Associate Dean for Postgraduate Research in the Faculty of Social Science. She is a Research Associate at the University of Oxford’s Refugee Studies Centre, a Senior Research Associate of the University of London’s Refugee Law Initiative, and a trustee of the UK Socio-Legal Studies Association. 

Source: https://research-portal.uea.ac.uk/en/persons/kirsten-mcconnachie

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