Uplifting Refugee’s Capacity Through Refugees-Based NGO in Malaysia

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.201201.177How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Refugees, Community, Country, NGOs, Government

Abstract

This paper explores the experiences of refugees-based NGO in managing, advocating and promoting refugee’s capacity in the host country. The main objective of this preliminary study is to analyze how this NGO plays a pivotal role in empowering refugees group to survive in the host country local setting. An in-depth interview with one refugee-based NGO that working with Rohingya refugees showed that there are many forms of exertion were introduced include formal schools for children, entrepreneurship program, job preparation workshop and mutual agreement with industry on job availability. However, these strategies face many challenges in terms of attitude, cultural barrier, living tradition that uprooted the refugee’s community. This study recommends to strengthening these challenges through Chaskin’s community capacity concept in terms of skills, knowledge and resources, nature of social relations, civic participation and value system to uplift refugee’s capacity in society that currently experience local constraint namely the absence of government support, local community stigma towards refugees and lack of coordinated strategies among refugees-based NGOs. This strategy has a potential to eradicate more social problems that might derived from unattended refugee community includes health-risks, harassment, discrimination, life-insecurity, psychological disorder, urban poor and crime.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Mashitah Hamidi
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/12/03
TI  - Uplifting Refugee’s Capacity Through Refugees-Based NGO in Malaysia
BT  - Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Arts and Humanities (IJCAH 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 1061
EP  - 1068
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.201201.177
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.201201.177
ID  - Hamidi2020
ER  -