Survival Migration
Alexander Betts (Author)
Such threats as environmental change, food insecurity, and generalized violence force massive numbers of people to flee states that are unable or unwilling to ensure their basic rights, as do conditions in failed and fragile states that make possible human rights deprivations. Because these reasons do not meet the legal understanding of persecution, the victims of these circumstances are not usually recognized as "refugees," preventing current institutions from ensuring their protection. In this book, Alexander Betts develops the concept of "survival migration" to highlight the crisis in which these people find themselves
eBook, English, 20130703
Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY, 20130703
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9780801451065, 9780801468964, 9780801468957, 080145106X, 0801468965, 0801468957
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Introduction1. Survival Migration2. The National Politics of International Institutions3. South Africa: The Ad Hoc Response to the Zimbabwean Influx4. Botswana: The Division of Zimbabweans into Refugees and Migrants5. Angola: The Expulsion of the Congolese6. Tanzania: The Paradoxical Response to Congolese from South Kivu7. Kenya: Humanitarian Containment and the Somalis8. Yemen: Contrasting Responses to Somalis and Ethiopians9. Improving the Refugee Protection RegimeConclusion: Implementation MattersNotesReferencesIndex
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