From returnees to citizens? The case of minority repatriations to Bosnia and Herzegovina
By Hannes Einsporn
RSC Working Paper No. 118, September 2016
In this new working paper, Hannes Einsporn looks at why there is variation in the reintegration outcomes of forced migrants at the local level after mass displacement. Examining the case of minority repatriations to Bosnia and Herzegovina, Einsporn argues that the loss of assets, such as land or housing, and some form of representation in local politics as a result of displacement are critical in answering this question. Large-scale displacement frequently entails seizing political and economic power from the displaced and concentrating it in the hands of a small elite. Based on field research in the municipality of Prijedor, he argues that reintegration thus essentially constitutes a process of redistributing political and economic power to the benefit of returnees. The key mechanisms of change facilitating reintegration that he identifies are intra-elite competition, international coercion, and an erosion of the dominating elite’s power base.
The political-economy approach Einsporn advances in this study has implications for both repatriation theory and policy. First, the introduction of a wider set of causal mechanisms furthers our understanding of the process of repatriation and why it takes place. Second, it cautions against assuming that eradicating the causes of flight and restoring some form of protection against their re-occurrence will suffice to facilitate reintegration after large-scale displacement.
Download the working paper here: https://www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/publications/from-returnees-to-citizens-the-case-of-minority-repatriations-to-bosnia-and-herzegovina
The Constitutionalisation of Immigration Detention: Between EU Law and the European Convention on Human Rights
Global Detention Project Working Paper No. 15
By Galina Cornelisse
October 2016
This GDP Working Paper argues that the increasing regulation of immigration detention in European Union law has led to more constitutional protection for immigration detainees. This constitutionalisation has resulted in part from the dynamics between EU law and European human rights law. The complementary relationship between the two legal orders may also contribute to higher standards of protection for immigration detainees. However, denser regulation on the transnational level has at times also resulted in inconsistency, with negative implications for the rights of immigration detainees in Europe. The author concludes that the path towards constitutionalisation is not an inevitable one. It will require constant vigilance and can be encouraged by effective litigation.
Read it here: https://www.globaldetentionproject.org/constitutionalisation-immigration-detention-eu-law-european-convention-human-rights
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