McQuaid, KRV (2016) ‘We raise up the voice of the voiceless’: Voice, rights and resistance amongst Congolese Human Rights Defenders in Uganda. Refuge Special Issue: Refugee Voices, 32 (1). ISSN 1920-7336
Abstract
Amongst Uganda’s Congolese refugee population are a number of human rights defenders who actively resist the construction of refugees as dispossessed and displaced humanitarian aid recipients. Upon fleeing the complex and violent conflicts of the Democratic Republic of Congo, rather than supplicate to a humanitarian regime saturated with the language of human rights, these young men draw on human rights to “raise up the voice of the voiceless.” This article explores how defenders draw on human rights to understand, articulate, and resist the constraints of forced displacement into a humanitarian regime.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | (c) 2016, Centre for Refugee Studies, York University, Canada. Reproduced in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | Democratic Republic of Congo; voice; humanitarian regime |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Environment (Leeds) > School of Geography (Leeds) > Citizenship & Belonging (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 27 Sep 2016 15:31 |
Last Modified: | 27 Sep 2016 15:31 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Centre for Refugee Studies, York University, Canada |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:100787 |