What is a refugee?
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- ISBN: 9780190652388
- ISBN: 0190652381
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Physical Description:
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xi, 275 pages ; 22 cm - Publisher: Oxford ; Oxford University Press, [2016]
- Copyright: ©2016.
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Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-252) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Introduction. Some categories and distinctions ; Some recurring themes ; The objectives and structure of this book -- Defining 'refugees.' International refugee law: origins ; The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) ; The 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees ; Broader legal definitions ; Refugee protection under other branches of law ; Status determination by states ; Ordinary language understandings of 'refugee' ; Philosophical definitions of 'refugee' -- Exile and refuge : A brief overview. Political violence, marginalization and the human experience ; Exile and ideology from the seventeenth to the early twentieth centuries ; Russian and German refugees between the World Wars ; Postwar refugee resettlement ; Internal conflict and refugee movements in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries -- States and refugees ; The Westphalian system ; Bureaucracy and its failings ; Individual initiatives ; People smuggling : a product of state inaction -- Roots of refugee 'crises' in a globalized world. State disruption and violent conflict ; The fear of 'terrorism' ; Transport, the wherewithal to travel, and human mobility ; Globalisation and its impacts -- Diplomacy and refugees. Frameworks for negotiation over refugees ; 'Burden sharing' and its dilemmas ; The temptation of 'easy options' ; Refugees as agents -- Refugees, intervention and the 'responsibility to protect.' The use of force ; The idea of humanitarian intervention ; The responsibility to protect ; 'Intervention' as a solution -- 'When Adam delved and Eve span...' : some reflections on closing and opening borders. The costs of controlled borders ; The moral costs of refugee exclusion ; Confronting the 'Birthright lottery' ; A final word. |
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Subject: | Political refugees Refugees -- Government policy Globalization |
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