Invisible Integration: How Bureaucratic, Academic and Social Categories Obscure Integrated Refugees
Invisible Integration: How Bureaucratic, Academic and Social Categories Obscure Integrated Refugees
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无形的融合：官僚、学术和社会类别如何掩盖融合难民
DOI：
10.1093/jrs/feq027
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发表时间：
2008
影响因子：
1.7
通讯作者：
T. Polzer
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作者：
T. Polzer
这篇论文展示了难民如何成功融入社会，在机构、学者和社会背景下往往是看不见的。它认为，社会和机构分类过程的某些要素--包括偏好性、功能性、混和性、不变性、自我确认和可谈判性--往往会使融入社会的人变得模糊。本文提供了一个案例研究，比较了三种不同的分类方法应用于莫桑比克出生的人，这些人在20世纪80年代逃离莫桑比克内战后定居在南非边境的农村地区。这三个分类案例来自南非政府出于法律正规化的目的；来自威特沃特斯兰德大学的一个学术单位用于人口和公共卫生研究；以及来自布什巴克里奇区的居民描述和管理彼此之间的关系。这篇论文展示了这些不同的观点如何掩盖了融入社会的莫桑比克难民的经历。
This paper shows how successfully integrated refugees are often made invisible to institutions, academics and within social contexts. It argues that certain elements of social and institutional categorization processes—including partiality, functionality, conflation, immutability, self-confirmation and negotiability— tend to obscure people who are integrated. The paper presents a case study which juxtaposes the ways in which three different kinds of categorization have been applied to people of Mozambican birth who settled in a rural South African border area after fleeing the Mozambican civil war in the 1980s. The three cases of categorization come from the South African government for the purpose of legal regularization; from an academic unit of the University of the Witwatersrand for the purpose of demographic and public health research; and from residents of Bushbuckridge District to describe and manage their relationships with each other. The paper demonstrates how each of these different perspectives obscures the experiences of integrated Mozambican refugees.