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Refugee rights and wrongs: global cultural diffusion among the Congolese in South Africa Forced Migration Online (24276783) Migration, asylum and refugee law FORCED MIGRATION ONLINE REFUGEES REFUGEE EXPERIENCES CIVIL SOCIETY NGOS ORGANIZATIONS IDEOLOGIES This paper uses the case of Congolese refugees in South Africa to explore the question of the emergence of a global civil society. The goal is to put ethnographic flesh on the bones of what is normally a theoretical discussion. The refugee experience is particularly interesting because it provides a window onto two distinct layers of global civil society. First, it sheds light on how individuals learn about and use global norms and practices and how this learning process varies in their home and host-country context. Second, the refugee experience reveals the ways in which organizations learn about and put into practice universal values and strategies. This paper includes sections following the introduction on 'Theoretical Debates', 'The Congolese-South African Connection', 'The Diffusion of Ideas and Practices Among Individuals', 'Cultural Diffusion in Organizational Contexts', followed by conclusion. 2026-09-30T11:50:57Z Text Online resource 10.25446/oxford.33357069.v1 https://figshare.com/articles/online_resource/Refugee_rights_and_wrongs_global_cultural_diffusion_among_the_Congolese_in_South_Africa/33357069 CC BY-NC-ND 4.0