Legal empowerment and refugees on the Nile: the very short history of legal empowerment and refugee legal aid in Egypt

Martin David Jones

doi:10.1080/13642987.2015.1031521

Legal empowerment and refugees on the Nile: the very short history of legal empowerment and refugee legal aid in Egypt

Martin David Jones

Law

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Abstract

Although Egypt has a long history of hosting refugees, legal aid programmes to assist these refugees have a much more recent history. Over the last decade and a half, formal and informal civil society organisations have developed programmes of legal aid, focusing on a number of different legal problems facing refugees and applying a number of different models of legal aid. Despite this variety, there has been very little application in such programming of the principles of legal empowerment. Beyond the generic barriers to employing these principles, the providers of refugee legal aid in Egypt are confronted by the tension between incremental and revolutionary change that can undermine legal empowerment strategies and ambiguities concerning the precise group to be empowered.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	308-318
Journal	The International Journal of Human Rights
Volume	19
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/13642987.2015.1031521
Publication status	Published - 9 Jun 2015

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