Beauty and beautification in refugees’ lives and their implications for refugee policy

ACKER, Stephanie

doi:10.25071/1920-7336.41080

Beauty and beautification in refugees’ lives and their implications for refugee policy

dc.contributor.author	ACKER, Stephanie
dc.date.accessioned	2023-07-20T09:39:57Z
dc.date.available	2023-07-20T09:39:57Z
dc.date.issued	2023
dc.description	Published online: 9 June 2023	en
dc.description.abstract	This article seeks to understand the significance of everyday beauty in refugees’ lives and its implications for refugee policy; it is one of the first pieces of scholarship to explore this subject in this context. A review of the existing literature on beauty in refugee contexts followed by a deductive analysis of the literature on refugee homemaking demonstrates how beauty and beautification play an active role in how refugees (re)make home, even in temporary situations. Beauty is used to build hope, celebrate culture, create community, and honour past and present realities, and therefore has significant implications for the objectives of the Global Compact on Refugees. The role of beauty in refugee homemaking suggests challenging the narrow focus on durable solutions to a more holistic framework, transforming language and policy approaches to include refugees as decision-makers, and investing in the quality of shelters, camps, and homes as a more effective way to reduce pressure on host countries.	en
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dc.identifier.citation	Refuge : Canada’s journal on refugees, 2023, Vol. 39, No. 1, OnlineOnly	en
dc.identifier.doi	10.25071/1920-7336.41080
dc.identifier.issn	1920-7336
dc.identifier.issn	0220-5113
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dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/1814/75786
dc.identifier.volume	39
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dc.publisher	York University, Center for Refugee Studies	en
dc.relation.ispartof	Refuge : Canada’s journal on refugees	en
dc.relation.ispartofseries	[Migration Policy Centre]	en
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dc.rights.license	Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International	*
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dc.title	Beauty and beautification in refugees’ lives and their implications for refugee policy	en
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