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.
- Copyright
- © 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
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 -