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Forced displacement : why rights matter / edited by Katarzyna Grabska and Lyla Mehta.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008Description: xvi, 261 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0230522254
  • 9780230522251
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 325 22
LOC classification:
  • JV6346 .F67 2008
Contents:
1. Introduction / K.Grabska and L.Mehta -- 2. Protection and Durable Solutions: Regimes for Development and Conflict-Induced Internally Displaced and Resettled Populations / R.Muggah -- 3. Rights and Development-Induced Displacement: Risk Management or Social Protection? / B.Morvaridi -- 4. Brothers or Poor Cousins? Rights, Policies and the Wellbeing of Refugees in Egypt / K.Grabska -- 5. Refugees or Foreigners? The Case of Palestinians in Lebanon / J.Suleiman -- 6. Access to Economic and Social Rights in First Countries of Asylum and Repatriation: A Case Study of Eritrean Refugees in Sudan / G.Kibreab -- 7. Rights and Decisions to Return: Internally Displaced Persons in Post-war Sudan / M.Assal -- 8. Rights, Needs and Responsibility: Challenges to Rights-Based Advocacy for Refugees' Health and Education in Lebanon / S.Trad and M.Kagan -- 9. Indigenous Peoples, Displacement Through 'development' and Rights Violations: The Case of the Orang Asli of Peninsular Malaysia / C.Yong Ooi Lin -- 10. Why are Human Rights Violated with Impunity? Forced Displacement in India's Narmada Valley / L.Mehta -- 11. Protests Against UNHCR to Achieve Rights: Some Reflections / B.Harrell-Bond -- 12. Afterword: the Politics of Rights / K.Grabska and L.Mehta.
Summary: "Uprootedness, exile and forced displacement, be they due to conflict, persecution or even so-called 'development', are conditions which characterize the lives of millions of people across the globe. While the international community has largely been concerned with refugees crossing borders to flee persecution, violence, impoverishment and brutal regimes, less attention has been paid to internally displaced populations. Critically examining the disjunctures in global and local policy frameworks and categories that determine the lives and status of displaced people, and providing in-depth case studies from Africa, the Middle East and Asia, this collection evaluates rights-based approaches that seek to award agency to displaced people and demonstrates how 'rights talk' can be 'rights practice' in forced migration research, policy and practice. Including contributions from leading scholars and activists in the field, the book analyses and attempts to bridge the divide between a range of displacement situations, including development 'oustees', refugees and internally displaced persons."--Publisher's website.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Introduction / K.Grabska and L.Mehta -- 2. Protection and Durable Solutions: Regimes for Development and Conflict-Induced Internally Displaced and Resettled Populations / R.Muggah -- 3. Rights and Development-Induced Displacement: Risk Management or Social Protection? / B.Morvaridi -- 4. Brothers or Poor Cousins? Rights, Policies and the Wellbeing of Refugees in Egypt / K.Grabska -- 5. Refugees or Foreigners? The Case of Palestinians in Lebanon / J.Suleiman -- 6. Access to Economic and Social Rights in First Countries of Asylum and Repatriation: A Case Study of Eritrean Refugees in Sudan / G.Kibreab -- 7. Rights and Decisions to Return: Internally Displaced Persons in Post-war Sudan / M.Assal -- 8. Rights, Needs and Responsibility: Challenges to Rights-Based Advocacy for Refugees' Health and Education in Lebanon / S.Trad and M.Kagan -- 9. Indigenous Peoples, Displacement Through 'development' and Rights Violations: The Case of the Orang Asli of Peninsular Malaysia / C.Yong Ooi Lin -- 10. Why are Human Rights Violated with Impunity? Forced Displacement in India's Narmada Valley / L.Mehta -- 11. Protests Against UNHCR to Achieve Rights: Some Reflections / B.Harrell-Bond -- 12. Afterword: the Politics of Rights / K.Grabska and L.Mehta.

"Uprootedness, exile and forced displacement, be they due to conflict, persecution or even so-called 'development', are conditions which characterize the lives of millions of people across the globe. While the international community has largely been concerned with refugees crossing borders to flee persecution, violence, impoverishment and brutal regimes, less attention has been paid to internally displaced populations. Critically examining the disjunctures in global and local policy frameworks and categories that determine the lives and status of displaced people, and providing in-depth case studies from Africa, the Middle East and Asia, this collection evaluates rights-based approaches that seek to award agency to displaced people and demonstrates how 'rights talk' can be 'rights practice' in forced migration research, policy and practice. Including contributions from leading scholars and activists in the field, the book analyses and attempts to bridge the divide between a range of displacement situations, including development 'oustees', refugees and internally displaced persons."--Publisher's website.

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