Barbara Harrell-bond

University of Oxford | OX · Refugee Studies Centre

This paper reviews the access to legal representation in the Global South and should be read with the Nairobi Code and the SRLAN Charter.

Refugees in the Global South face many serious violations of their rights. Several major host states have failed to ratify both the Refugee Convention and the 1967 Protocol. However, even among those states that have ratified one or both, few have enacted the domestic legislation to implement the provisions, and no state in the South has made a ser...

Behind the Wall: a journey through China by Colin Thubron, London: Penguin. 1988. 308pp. £4.99pb

Displaced people, be they refugees or oustees, resort to protest as a way of claiming rights and seeking justice when their rights are violated (see chapters by Grabska, Mehta in this volume). It is not unusual to read about refugee protests, hunger strikes, or even suicides in Europe, Australia or North American countries when they have been detai...

The paper traces the early history of refugee research and shows how, from originally being prime movers in the research, refugees today have largely been reduced to invisibility. In the South, access to refugees held in camps is controlled by local government bureaucracies and by lead agencies, and may be severely restricted or completely denied;...

Of the estimated 12 million refugees in the world, more than 7 million have been confined to camps, effectively "warehoused," in some cases, for 10 years or more. Holding refugees in camps was anathema to the founders of the refugee protection regime. Today, with most refugees encamped in the less developed parts of the world, the humanitarian appa...

Of the estimated 12 million refugees in the world, more than 7 million have been confined to camps, effectively "warehoused," in some cases, for 10 years or more. Holding refugees in camps was anathema to the founders of the refugee protection regime. Today, with most refugees encamped in the less developed parts of the world, the humanitarian appa...

Human Rights Quarterly 24.1 (2002) 51-85 This article highlights one dimension of the provision of humanitarian aid, the interactions between "helpers" and refugees in contexts where refugees are dependent for their survival on assistance distributed by humanitarian organizations. There is much evidence that the treatment meted out to refugees by t...

This article presents an overview of the legal and policy issues affecting refugee and asylum-seeking women in European host societies. First, it explores the unique types of persecution experienced by women and shows that the asylum determination process, along with the status of women relative to men, mitigates against the effective protection of...

In this article, originally delivered as a keynote address at the 1999 Chicago World Mission Institute which addressed the theme "Disposable People? Refugees, Migrants, and the Church's Mission Today," Dr. Barbara Harrell-Bond tells about some of the people that she has encountered in her work as a researcher into refugee rights in East Africa. Usi...

Several of these human rights activists and others who are connected with the Kabila government have escaped to Kampala where their lives are in grave danger. These activists have no identity or travel documents. Hence, most are in Uganda illegally. This makes them extremely vulnerable to harassment and possible imprisonment by the Ugandan police....

A literature review on camps for humanitarian assistance.

This paper examines the justifications, operational methods and results of the requirement to enumerate refugee populations prior to supplying food aid. The authors argue (1) that this practices in refugee assistance, forming part of 'an ideology of control' within aid programmes, and (3) that it fails to provide the 'accountability' sought by dono...

This paper explores how an anthropological understanding of death could inform relief provision so as to substantially improve the welfare of refugees. Most of the material is drawn from African examples. Even if effective assistance is provided, many refugees die during flight and exile. Using case material it is shown that despite the lack of res...

It appears that it is the deliberate policy of both the UNHCR and the GOD to keep refugees ignorant of their current status and entitlement to protection in Djibouti. The refugees' concern that the repamation programme is being targetted largely at the political rather than the rural refugees has been rubbished by the UNHCR. who meanwhile hold the...

Repr Bibliogr. s. 428-435

The symposium on refugees held in Oxford in March 1984 was to debate the present status of assistance programmes and to consider alternative viewpoints from refugees, refugee-based organizations, and African host countries, whose voices go almost unheard. Among the topics discussed were resettlement and education, and coordinating and funding of ac...

Papers delivered at the 4th International Congress of African Studies (ICAS) subcategorized dependency into its cultural, military, and political aspects. At the end of the conference, a series of resolutions was adopted. The author lists 8 resolutions under problems of economic and technological dependency, and 28 under the problem of cultural dep...

Opening Paragraph Throughout the growing body of literature on Sierra Leone a considerable degree of error has persisted over the use of the term ‘creole’ and the resultant confusion has led to repeated failure to describe accurately the society of the colony. This is not merely an academic problem. The very existence of such literature feeds back...

This paper presents an analysis of essays by secondary school students and the results of an attitude scale administered to a sample of university students and professionals in Sierra Leone. It documents their stereotypes of and attitudes towards traditional African and "western" marriage and family life practices. It was found that the younger sub...

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Leiden : African Studies Centre (ASC Research report, no. 2), p. 144, 1975.

Thesis (D. Phil.)--University of Oxford, 1972. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 452-476).