Global refugee crisis: a reference handbook

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Covers the current global refugee crisis and examines the interrelated factors of immigration enforcement, international human rights law, political violence, and refugee protection.

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Full title :Global refugee crisis : a reference handbook / Mark Gibney.

Summary

Covers the current global refugee crisis and examines the interrelated factors of immigration enforcement, international human rights law, political violence, and refugee protection.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2010.
Edition:2nd ed

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):ABC-Clio
Place of Publication:Santa Barbara, Calif
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2010.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (xvii, 325 pages) : : illustrations

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781598844566, 1598844563, 1849728615, 9781849728614, 1282933892, 9781282933897, 9786612933899, 6612933895
oclc:ocn693772772
LC Classification:HV640
Dewey Decimal:362.87

The history of protecting refugees -- The post-war human rights revolution -- The 1951 refugee convention -- Alienage -- "Well-founded fear" -- Persecution -- The nexus requirement -- Exclusions -- Cessations -- Refugee rights -- Nonrefoulement -- Rights owed to refugees physically present in the receiving state -- Rights owed to refugees lawfully in the contracting state -- Rights owed to refugees lawfully staying in the contracting state -- Rights owed to refugees residing in the contracting state -- Interface with international and regional human rights instruments -- Nonrefoulement -- Racism -- Detention -- Economic, social, and cultural rights -- Rights of the child -- Domestic procedures -- Establishing eligibility -- Denial of asylum hearings and accelerated procedures -- Returned refugees -- Problems, controversies, and solutions -- Asylum abuse? -- United Kingdom -- The Netherlands -- Sweden -- United States -- Summary -- Nonrefoulement: when (and where) does the prohibition apply? -- Sale v. Haitian centers council, 509 U.S. 155 (1993) -- Justice Blackmun's dissent -- The practices of other states -- Re-conceptualizing human rights and refugee protection -- The responsib…

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Disaster relief Electronic books POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy Refugees Refugees -- Services for Réfugiés Réfugiés -- Services Relief Work Secours aux victimes de catastrophes