PHLB11H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Internally Displaced Person, James Orbinski, Protocol Relating To The Status Of Refugees
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Lecture"s objectives: define forced migration, define agency, identify metaphors and political discourse, analyse relation between refugees and other political actors, analyse the involvement of ngos, define forced migration (against will, it is imposed on you) Contexts- we need to make reference to the context culture, traditions, gender roles, etc, actual conditions people live in, depends on the society on lives in. Distinctive experience it is different from others for a reason, ie refugee is different from immigrant, etc, there must be something particular to this experience that makes us call it forced migration or separate from other types of migration. Reactive vs proactive (richmond) , reactive predetermined no choice whereas proactive free choice; you can make your own decisions. Reactive- have no choice, eg, slavery, racism, etc. These two alternatives don"t pay enough attention to agency , that is the problem that turton deals with these two.
