2 - Refugee-led Transnational Advocacy: Making Space for Refugee Participation and Self Representation

Highlighting refugees as the owners of political agencies, this study seeks to understand how refugees are organizing themselves into a transnational network by refugees for refugees. Previous studies have exhibited refugee effort on advocating and claiming their rights at local level through various form of actions. This research particularly focused on showcasing how refugees are exercising their political agency by becoming advocates and actors in the negotiation and diplomacy process, which through the network has negotiated on several barriers they face to encourage refugee inclusion including participation and self-representation of refugees at the global level. This paper intends to analyse the background to the emergence of advocacy by refugee networks at the global level and how NRV's efforts as part of the Transnational Advocacy Network encourage refugee participation and representation in global refugee protection policy making. As an analytical framework to explain how collective action at the transnational level can be formed, researchers use the concepts of scale shift and internationalism proposed by Sidney Tarrow (2005). While several strategies of transnational advocacy network from Keck & Sikkink (1999) would be useful in elaborating how NRV encourages participation and representation in the global level.

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Sethari Rumatika