{"title":"\"Integration is a Gift from God\": Blackness, Externalization, and the Figure of the Refugee.","authors":"Fiori S Berhane","doi":"10.3167/arms.2025.0122of4","DOIUrl":"10.3167/arms.2025.0122of4","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Focusing on the case of Italy and border externalization mechanisms in the Horn of Africa, this article argues that refugeehood has become interpellated with Blackness in the Mediterranean world and beyond. Departing from integration discourse and bringing together the Black Mediterranean and Anti-Refugee Machine frameworks, I demonstrate how the move to elide the refugee category with Blackness has attenuated violence, disenfranchisement, and mechanisms of preemptive detention against Black Africans and other racially marked groups. Moreover, externalization policies have fundamentally altered broader institutional policies, making meaningful integration almost impossible to achieve in either the Global North or South. Refugee integration is a \"gift from God\" insofar as it maintains the categorical exceptionalism that constitutes the category.</p>","PeriodicalId":93476,"journal":{"name":"Migration and society : advances in research","volume":"8 1","pages":"57-72"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12422293/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145042757","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Local Faith Actors and the Global Compact on Refugees.","authors":"Heather Wurtz, Olivia Wilkinson","doi":"10.3167/arms.2020.030112","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3167/arms.2020.030112","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Power dynamics of global decision-making have meant that local faith actors have not been frequently heard in the context of refugee response. The development of new global refugee and humanitarian frameworks gives hope that there will be greater inclusion of Southern-led, faith-based responses. A closer look, however, demonstrates discrepancies between the frameworks used in global policy processes and the realities of local faith actors in providing refugee assistance. We present primary research from distinct case studies in Mexico and Honduras, which counters much of what is assumed about local faith actors in refugee services and aid. Interventions that are considered to be examples of good practice in the global South are not always congruent with those conceptualized as good practices by the international community. Failure to recognize and integrate approaches and practices from the global South, including those led by actors inspired by faith, will ultimately continue to replicate dominant global power structures.</p>","PeriodicalId":93476,"journal":{"name":"Migration and society : advances in research","volume":"3 1","pages":"145-161"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8553170/pdf/nihms-1688726.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39685072","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}