Forced Displacements Whose Needs Are Right?

by Grabska, Katarzyna; Mehta, Lyla

• ISBN13: 9780230522251
• ISBN10: 0230522254
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-12-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Uprootedness, exile and forced displacement, be they due to conflict, persecution or even so-called 'development', are conditions which characterise 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. This book problematises both policies and rights frameworks in processes of displacement, while bridging the divide that exists between refugee and oustee studies.

Author Biography

KATARZYNA GRABSKA has been working as a Projects Coordinator and Researcher at the Forced Migration and Refugee Studies program at the American University, Egypt.

LYLA MEHTA is a fellow at the Sussex Centre for Migration Research, University of Sussex.

Table of Contents

List of Tables and Figures	p. vii
Acknowledgements	p. viii
Notes on the Contributors	p. xi
List of Acronyms	p. xiv
Introduction	p. 1
Protection and Durable Solutions: Regimes for Development and Conflict-Induced Internally Displaced and Resettled Populations	p. 26
Rights and Development-Induced Displacement: Risk Management or Social Protection?	p. 50
Brothers or Poor Cousins? Rights, Policies and the Well-being of Refugees in Egypt	p. 71
Refugees or Foreigners? The Case of Palestinians in Lebanon	p. 93
Access to Economic and Social Rights in First Countries of Asylum and Repatriation: a Case Study of Eritrean Refugees in Sudan	p. 116
Rights and Decisions to Return: Internally Displaced Persons in Post-war Sudan	p. 139
Rights, Needs and Responsibility: Challenges to Rights-Based Advocacy for Refugees' Health and Education in Lebanon	p. 159
Indigenous Peoples, Displacement Through 'Development' and Rights Violations: the Case of the Orang Asli of Peninsular Malaysia	p. 178
Why are Human Rights Violated with Impunity? Forced Displacement in India's Narmada Valley	p. 201
Protests Against the UNHCR to Achieve Rights: Some Reflections	p. 222
Afterword: the Politics of Rights	p. 244
Index	p. 247
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