Humanitarian protection and the politics of labelling: the case of displaced Iraqi and Syrian Roma

Sarah Louise Edgcumbe

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Humanitarian protection and the politics of labelling: the case of displaced Iraqi and Syrian Roma

Sarah Louise Edgcumbe

School of International Relations

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This chapter examines the relationship between humanitarianism and internally displaced Roma in Syria and Iraq drawing on Didier Fassin's critique of humanitarianism as inextricable from politics and Achille Mbembe's theory of necropolitics. The chapter examines gendered violences committed against displaced Iraqi and Syrian Roma by humanitarian organisations, state institutions, and public narratives through the politics of labelling, exclusion, and erasure. The humanitarian community has been complicit in othering Iraqi and Syrian Roma and contributing to the marginalisation and displacement-induced vulnerabilities these groups experience. The chapter presents the implications of such othering by the humanitarian community in research and practice and calls for a more nuanced approach to both.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Gender and violence in Romani and Traveller lives
Subtitle of host publication	methods, ethics and dilemmas
Editors	Paloma Gay y Blasco, Iliana Sarafian, Raluca Roman
Place of Publication	Abingdon, Oxon
Publisher	Routledge Taylor & Francis Group
Chapter	8
Pages	128-146
Number of pages	18
ISBN (Electronic)	9781032629285
ISBN (Print)	9781032629254, 9781032629278
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.4324/9781032629285-10
Publication status	Published - 26 Jul 2024

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Humanitarian protection and the politics of labelling: the case of displaced Iraqi and Syrian Roma. / Edgcumbe, Sarah Louise.
Gender and violence in Romani and Traveller lives: methods, ethics and dilemmas. ed. / Paloma Gay y Blasco; Iliana Sarafian; Raluca Roman. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 2024. p. 128-146.

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