Deterritorialized Youth: Sahrawi and Afghan Refugees at the Margins of the Middle East

· Forced Migration Book 29 · Berghahn Books
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The Sahrawi and Afghan refugee youth in the Middle East have been stereotyped regionally and internationally: some have been objectified as passive victims; others have become the beneficiaries of numerous humanitarian aid packages which presume the primacy of the Western model of child development. This book compares and contrasts both the stereotypes and Western-based models of humanitarian assistance among Sahrawi youth with the lack of programming and near total self-sufficiency of Afghan refugee youth in Iran. Both extremes offer an important opportunity to further explore the impact which forced migration and prolonged conflict have had, and continue to have, on the lives of these refugee youth and their families. This study examines refugee communities closely linked with the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) and a host of other UN agencies in the case of the Sahrawi and near total lack of humanitarian aid in the case of Afghan refugees in Iran.

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Dawn Chatty is a Professor of Anthropology and Forced Migration and Director of the Refugee Studies Centre at Oxford University. Her publications include Conservation and Mobile Peoples: Displacement, Forced Settlement and Sustainable Development (co-ed. Berghahn Books, 2002); Children of Palestine: Experiencing Forced Migration in the Middle East (co-ed. Berghahn Books, 2005); Nomadic Societies in the Middle East and North Africa: Facing the 21st Century (Brill, 2006); and Displacement and Dispossession in the Modern Middle East (Cambridge University Press, 2010).

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