Local integration has long been seen as the “forgotten” durable solution to refugee displacement1 evidenced by the reluctance of governments across the world to accord refugees a new citizenship. This article goes further. It argues that local integration as a durable solution has not been merely forgotten, but deliberately avoided at a national, regional and international level. As a result, its veracity as a realistic durable solution for the majority of refugees is now in question. The article examines ways in which states seek to evade local integration. It begins by investigating the multiple tactics used by wealthier governments to elude responsibility both at a national level and through the influence they exert over global refugee responses. It then explores how countries hosting the greatest numbers of refugees, with a specific focus on Africa, have allowed significant numbers of refugees into their territory but have then maintained a short-term approach that has, in practice, blocked local integration as a durable solution. We argue that a mix of global, national, and local processes and forces have effectively conspired to diminish local integration as a durable solution to the point that it has all but vanished from the political arena. The implications for refugee populations of these processes and forces – talked of collectively as the politics of evasion – are profound. While refugees continue to find ways to negotiate their own access to communities and labour markets, this is often done against national, regional, and international policies rather than with them. Ultimately, by highlighting its value as a durable solution, while showing that there is almost uniform acceptance by states and international organisations working on protection concerns that it is no longer politically viable, this article hopes to restart an urgent conversation about the value of local integration and how it can be reinvigorated.

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本地整合：需要修复的持久解决方案？

长期以来，地方融合一直被视为解决难民流离失所问题的“被遗忘的”持久解决方案1，世界各国政府不愿给予难民新的公民身份就证明了这一点。这篇文章更进一步。它认为，作为持久解决方案的地方融合不仅被遗忘，而且在国家、区域和国际层面故意避免。因此，它作为对大多数难民的现实持久解决方案的真实性现在受到质疑。这篇文章探讨了各州试图逃避地方融合的方式。它首先调查富裕政府在国家层面以及通过它们对全球难民反应施加的影响力来逃避责任的多种策略。然后它探讨了收容最多难民的国家如何，以非洲为重点，允许大量难民进入其领土，但随后采取了一种短期方法，实际上阻碍了当地融合作为一种持久解决方案。我们认为，全球、国家和地方进程和力量的混合有效地合谋削弱了地方一体化作为一种​​持久解决方案，以至于它几乎从政治舞台上消失了。这些过程和力量——统称为逃避政治——对难民人口的影响是深远的。尽管难民继续想方设法谈判他们自己进入社区和劳动力市场的机会，但这通常是针对国家、地区和国际政策而不是与他们进行的。最终，通过强调其作为持久解决方案的价值，