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Syrian Refugee Faith Leaders in Lebanon: Navigating the Intersection Between Assistance Provision and “Spiritual Activism”
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This chapter examines the relationship between faith‐based responses in the Global South and conceptualizations of humanitarianism, including through an analysis of the roles of faith and religion in responses developed by local faith‐based community groups supporting Syrian refugees in Amman, and Karen refugee evangelical humanitarian relief providers on the Thai‐Myanmar border. In the protracted Myanmar refugee situation, with over 100000 refugees living in refugee camps and settlements along the Thai‐Myanmar border since the 1980s, an extensive range of services, welfare, and relief is provided by Karen Christian refugees on both sides of the border. The majority of refugees worldwide are both from, and live in, Muslim‐majority countries, whose states and civil society groups alike often self‐identify as Muslim. The chapter argues that both explicit and implicit concerns regarding the potentially ideologically‐driven nature of Southern‐led regional, national, and local responses to displacement must be analysed with regards to religion.
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https://refugeehosts.org/2018/04/19/histories-and-spaces-of-southern-led-responses-to-displacement/
Far from passively waiting for externally provided assistance, regional organisations, states, communities, households, families and individuals across the world have been responding to displacement throughout history.
The case of refugees-hosting-refugees that I have been exploring in detail through Refugee Hosts – in particular the roles of established Palestinians in supporting refugees from Syria – can, in this regard, both be examined through the framework of ‘locally-provided aid’ (and therefore in relation to ‘the Localisation of Aid Agenda’) but also as one of a myriad of what I refer to as ‘Southern-led’ responses.
Recognizing the roles of diverse actors from and of the global South has of course been enhanced, and indeed ‘institutionalised’, via the ‘localisation of aid’ agenda that is at the core of our new Refugee Hosts blog series. Indeed, we could argue that the ‘local’ in the localisation agenda primarily relates to non-Western actors (or what we can call actors from the ‘global South’), whether these are regional bodies (ie the Arab League or ASEAN), ‘local’ governments (ie Lebanon or Jordan) or municipal authorities (ie the mayor of a district in Beirut).
This short piece builds upon my earlier contribution to the series, here, to focus on the need for analyses of local responses to be attentive to the longstanding history of diverse “local/Southern” responses to displacement.
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https://refugeehosts.org/2018/04/19/histories-and-spaces-of-southern-led-responses-to-displacement/
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