Strangers to Neighbours
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Strangers to Neighbours

Refugee Sponsorship in Context

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Strangers to Neighbours

Refugee Sponsorship in Context

About this book

As a leading country in global refugee resettlement, Canada operates a unique program that allows private groups and individuals to sponsor refugees. This innovative approach has received growing international attention, but there remains a need for a more expansive understanding of the sponsorship framework and its potential implications within Canada and across the world. Strangers to Neighbours explains the origins and development of refugee sponsorship, paying particular attention to the unintended consequences and ethical dilemmas it produces for refugee policy. The contributors to this collection draw upon law, social science, and philosophy to bring a more robust and objective perspective on Canada's historical experience with sponsorship into wider conversations about the refugee crisis and resettlement. Together, they present recent cases that exemplify how the model has been applied and how it functions, while also analyzing the challenges that emerge in host-sponsor relations. This volume further examines how sponsorship has been implemented differently in countries such as the United States and Australia. The first dedicated study of refugee sponsorship policy, Strangers to Neighbours assembles leading scholars from a range of disciplines to consider whether Canada's system is indeed a sustainable model for the world.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Copyright
  3. Contents
  4. Figure and Tables
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. Introduction:Private Refugee Sponsorship: An Evolving Framework for Refugee Resettlement
  7. PART ONE Context
  8. 1 Reluctant Partnership: A Political History of Private Sponsorship in Canada (1947–1980)
  9. 2 “Naming” Refugees in the Canadian Private Sponsorship of Refugees Program: Diverse Intentions and Consequences
  10. 3 How Should We Think about Private Sponsorship of Refugees?
  11. 4 A Port in the Storm: Resettlement and Private Sponsorship in the Broader Context of the Refugee Regime
  12. PART TWO Cases
  13. 5 Religious Heritage, Institutionalized Ethos, and Synergies: The Mennonite Central Committee and Canada’s Private Sponsorship of Refugees Program
  14. 6 Operation Ezra: A New Way Forward
  15. 7 The Blended Visa Office-Referred Program: Perspectives and Experiences from Rural Nova Scotia
  16. 8 Refugee Sponsorship in the Age of Social Media: Canada and the Syrian Refugee Program
  17. PART THREE Challenges
  18. 9 Kindred Spirits? Links between Refugee Sponsorship and Family Sponsorship
  19. 10 Transactions of Worth in Refugee–Host Relations
  20. 11 Mobilization of the Legal Community to Support PSR Applications through the Refugee Sponsorship Support Program
  21. 12 Judicial Review in Canada’s Refugee Resettlement Program
  22. PART FOUR Comparison
  23. 13 “Doing Something to Fight Injustice”: Voluntarism and Refugee Resettlement as Political Engagement in the United States
  24. 14 Private Humanitarian Sponsorship: Searching for the Community in Australia’s Community Refugee Sponsorship Program
  25. 15 A Model for the World? Policy Transfer Theory and the Challenges to “Exporting” Private Sponsorship to Europe
  26. Conclusion:Sponsorship’s Success and Sustainability?
  27. Contributors
  28. Index