Escape from Violence: Conflict and the Refugee Crisis in the Developing WorldOxford University Press, 10.08.1989 - 398 Seiten The magnitude of refugees movements in the Third World, widely perceived as an unprecedented crisis, has generated widespread concern in the West. This concern reveals itself as an ambiguous mixture of heartfelt compassion for the plight of the unfortunates cast adrift and a diffuse fear that they will come "pouring in." In this comprehensive study, the authors examine the refugee flows originating in Latin America, Africa, and Asia, and suggest how a better understanding of this phenomenon can be used by the international community to assist those in greatest need. Reviewing the history of refugee movements in the West, they show how their formation and the fate of endangered populations have also been shaped by the partisan objectives of receiving countries. They survey the kinds of social conflicts characteristic of different regions of the Third World and the ways refugees and refugee policy are made to serve broader political purposes. |
Inhalt
PART TWO REGIONAL STUDIES | 35 |
PART THREE THEORETICAL AND POLICY IMPLICATIONS | 225 |
Notes | 283 |
Index | 359 |
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Escape from Violence: Conflict and the Refugee Crisis in the Developing World Aristide R. Zolberg,Astri Suhrke,Sergio Aguayo Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 1989 |
Escape from Violence: Conflict and the Refugee Crisis in the Developing World Aristide R. Zolberg,Astri Suhrke,Sergio Aguayo Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 1989 |
Escape from Violence: Conflict and the Refugee Crisis in the Developing World Aristide R. Zolberg,Astri Suhrke,Sergio Aguayo Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 1989 |
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Seite 29 - refugee" shall also apply to every person who, owing to external aggression, occupation, foreign domination or events seriously disturbing public order in either part or the whole of his country of origin or nationality...
Seite 4 - Any other person who is outside the country of his nationality, or if he has no nationality, the country of his former habitual residence, because he has or had well-founded fear of persecution by reason of his race, religion, nationality or political opinion and is unable or, because of such fear, is unwilling to avail himself of the protection of the government of the country of his nationality, or, if he has no nationality, to return to the country of his former habitual residence.
Seite 248 - Ultimately, the decisive factor in making a peasant rebellion possible lies in the relation of the peasantry to the field of power which surrounds it. A rebellion cannot start from a situation of complete impotence
Seite 21 - He is distinguished from the ordinary alien or migrant in that he has left his former territory because of political events there, not because of economic conditions or because of the economic attractions of another territory.
Seite 12 - ... only nationals could be citizens, only people of the same national origin could enjoy the full protection of legal institutions, that persons of different nationality needed some law of exception until or unless they were completely assimilated and divorced from their origin.
Seite 17 - Lenin's views formed the basis for future controls in that all citizens were to be considered as "hired employees" of the state and required to serve. The Bolshevik attitude was also shaped by civil war and foreign intervention: "It was feared that those leaving the country would swell the ranks of the White armies and other enemies abroad. From there it was a short step to equating the wish to emigrate with opposition to the socialist...
Seite 334 - The Attack of the Cultural Revolution on Ideology and Organization," in Ping-ti Ho and Tang Tsou, eds., China in Crisis (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1968), Vol.
Seite 230 - ... distinctive feature of the contemporary epoch is the formation of a world within which national societies persist, but are internationalized to a higher degree than ever before. Consequently, the conflicts with which we are concerned arise as a product of both internal and external forces, inextricably linked to form distinctive transnational patterns.
Seite 12 - Arabs, thereby increasing the number of the stateless and rightless by another 700,000 to 800,000 people. And what happened in Palestine within the smallest territory and in terms of hundreds of thousands was then repeated in India on a large scale involving many millions of people. Since the Peace Treaties of 1919 and 1920 the refugees and the stateless have attached themselves like a curse to all the newly established states on earth which were created in the image of the nation-state.