Asylum seekers in Indonesia

Briskman, L; Fiske, LI

Asylum seekers in Indonesia

Briskman, L Fiske, LI

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Citation:: The Routledge Handbook of Community Development Perspectives from Around the Globe, 2018, pp. 358 - 369 (12)
Issue Date:: 2018

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dc.contributor.author	Briskman, L	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Fiske, LI https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7922-081X	en_US
dc.contributor.editor	Kenny, S	en_US
dc.contributor.editor	McGrath, B	en_US
dc.contributor.editor	Phillips, R	en_US
dc.date.issued	2018	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	The Routledge Handbook of Community Development Perspectives from Around the Globe, 2018, pp. 358 - 369 (12)	en_US
dc.identifier.isbn	1317378164	en_US
dc.identifier.isbn	9781317378167	en_US
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dc.description.abstract	Community development in Western countries is usually premised on the idea of a profession, occupation or as a component of social work and cognate disciplines. This chapter looks at "insider" community development without organizational links and examines attempts of an asylum seeker and refugee community in the West Java location of Cisarna to deal with their protracted refugee situation. Our exploration is through the lens of survival community development. We use the concept of survival as it recognizes inherent capacity in all humans. While sharing much in common with sustainable community development, most particularly in centering shared humanity as foundational and its approach to humanity as communitarian and collective in nature, sustainability is limited. Sustainable community development presumes citizenship and aims for life-long or even trans-generational development. The population group discussed here is, by definition, temporaty and transitional. Asylum seekers in Indonesia do not have citizenship nor any pathway to settle permanently there. This temporariness is fundamental to their condition and shapes their relationships. Temporary existence can be a limiting factor for community development activities as transferability is not necessarily accommodated in survival activities, and as people move on there may be a loss of skills and achievements.	en_US
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Abstract:

Community development in Western countries is usually premised on the idea of a profession, occupation or as a component of social work and cognate disciplines. This chapter looks at "insider" community development without organizational links and examines attempts of an asylum seeker and refugee community in the West Java location of Cisarna to deal with their protracted refugee situation. Our exploration is through the lens of survival community development. We use the concept of survival as it recognizes inherent capacity in all humans. While sharing much in common with sustainable community development, most particularly in centering shared humanity as foundational and its approach to humanity as communitarian and collective in nature, sustainability is limited. Sustainable community development presumes citizenship and aims for life-long or even trans-generational development. The population group discussed here is, by definition, temporaty and transitional. Asylum seekers in Indonesia do not have citizenship nor any pathway to settle permanently there. This temporariness is fundamental to their condition and shapes their relationships. Temporary existence can be a limiting factor for community development activities as transferability is not necessarily accommodated in survival activities, and as people move on there may be a loss of skills and achievements.

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