Abbreviations
1. A systems approach to displacement
2. Who is a refugee?
3. Making a legal refugee regime
4. Should I stay or go?
5. Exit
6. Hosting in the many Global Souths
7. Powerful hosts
8. Transnational connections and homeland
ties
9. Conclusion
References
Acknowledgements
Rawan Arar is Assistant Professor in the Department of
Law, Societies, and Justice at the University of Washington.
David Scott FitzGerald is Professor of Sociology and
Co-Director of the Center for Comparative Immigration Studies
at the University of California San Diego.
2023 Felicia Krishna Hensel Book Award ‘Honorable Mention’ from the
Interdisciplinary Studies Section of the International Studies
Association (ISA)
“Arar and FitzGerald offer a truly comprehensive overview of what
makes people able and willing to flee violence […]. The
Refugee System will be useful to undergraduate and graduate
students of migration, particularly because of its accessible
language and composition […]. Besides students, the book will also
benefit more seasoned migration scholars looking for a theoretical
synthesis of recent debates in their field.”
Ethnic and Racial Studies
“In contrast to studies that often focus on how state policies
impact migrants’ decisions, the authors demonstrate how migrants
shape policies.”
International Migration Review
“This book [demonstrates] the value of using a systems approach to
understand the refugee system. While it is challenging to
empirically measure and capture all interactions between refugee
drivers, actors, states, policies, and institutions involved, the
book has shown that demographic analysis can benefit from using a
holistic approach in the production of knowledge about
refugees.”
Raya Muttarak, Population and Development Review “A work of
brilliance, Arar and FitzGerald’s The Refugee
System illuminates the phenomenon in a way that no one has
done before, providing an indispensable framework for understanding
the causes and consequences of forced migration as well as the ways
in which states and institutions have responded when faced with
people fleeing violence and persecution.”
Roger Waldinger, University of California, Los Angeles “A rich
analysis of the ways in which migrants and refugees interact with
entangled legal and political regimes. Arar and FitzGerald never
lose sight of the people most affected by the phenomena under
discussion: refugees themselves, and their communities.”
Laura Madokoro, Carleton University
“During the past decade, the refugee issue dominated the world's
media headlines and has risen to the very top of the global policy
agenda. This groundbreaking book provides a uniquely comprehensive,
systematic and humane analysis of this important topic.”
Jeff Crisp, Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford
“Sociologists Arar and FitzGerald demonstrate the imperative of
adopting a systems approach and expanding the general understanding
of refugees beyond the restrictive legal definition to understand
the politics and experiences of displacement that have shaped the
world in the last three decades.”
CHOICE
“In their ambitious new book, The Refugee System, Rawan Arar
and David FitzGerald set out to build a comprehensive framework
through which to analyze the world’s major refugee systems. […]
They propose a flexible, integrated framework of analysis that
accounts for individuals, historic forces, and institutions.”
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