Refugee-led advocacy

4 important questions on Refugee-led advocacy

Why is refugee-led advocacy so important?

connecting lived experiences to policymaking

What does Mohammed call talkinism?

Refugee participation happens, but this is also problematic, because they can just tick the box that they have spoken to ‘a refugee’, so it is only one story.

What are the two dimensions of the issue of legitimacy?

1) representativeness => is the organization that wants to represent a certain groups representable enough? 2) credibility => refugee-led advocacy only sees the point of view from refugees and could therefore not be believable.
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What are the different power relations in policymaking relations?

  • Closed space = no access to the table of decision making: places where there is no room for advocacy/experiences
  • Invited spaces = sitting at the table and being actively sought and engaged, but this is not the same as inclusion of all the perspectives!
  • Created spaces = spaces set up by refugees themselves:
  • Co-created spaces = becoming aware of mechanisms of exclusion by contrasting positions: both refugees and policy makers share influence on the agenda or meeting.

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