Survival Migration : Failed Governance and the Crisis of Displacement /

International treaties, conventions, and organizations to protect refugees were established in the aftermath of World War II to protect people escaping targeted persecution by their own governments. However, the nature of cross-border displacement has transformed dramatically since then. Such threat...

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Main Author: Betts, Alexander, 1980- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2013.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Table of Contents:
  • Survival migration
  • The national politics of international institutions
  • South Africa : the ad hoc response to the Zimbabwean influx
  • Botswana : the division of Zimbabweans into refugees and migrants
  • Angola : the expulsion of the Congolese back to the southern provinces
  • Tanzania : the paradoxical response to congolese from South Kivu
  • Kenya : humanitarian containment and the Somalis
  • Yemen : contrasting responses to Somalis and Ethiopians
  • Improving the refugee protection regime.