Refugees and Forced Displacement

by Newman, Edward; Selm, Joanne Van

• ISBN13: 9789280810868
• ISBN10: 9280810863
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-10-01
• Publisher: United Nations Univ

Summary

Human displacement can be both a cause and a consequence of conflict within and among societies. As such, the management of refugee movements and the protection of displaced people should be an integral part of security policy and conflict management. Refugees and forcibly displaced people can also represent the starkest example of a tension between "human security" -- where the primary focus is the individual and communities -- and more conventional models of "national security" tied to the sovereign state. The authors apply this theme to a number of pressing problems covering international law, internally displaced persons, early warning of refugee flows, asylum, the actors and institutions involved in refugee protection, the return and reintegration of displaced people, gender and displacement, and ethical perspectives. The book demonstrates how many of the challenges of refugees, and the challenges posed by societies and governments to refugee protection, have been exacerbated by the terrorist attacks of September 2001. In seeking to address the conflict between security concerns and migratory flows, Refugees and Forced Displacement argues the need for reappraisal of the legal, political, normative, institutional, and conceptual frameworks through which the international community addresses refugees and displacement. Contributors include B.S.Chimni, Patricia Weiss Fagen, Mervyn Frost, Khalid Koser, Gil Loescher, William Maley, Peter Mares, Julie Mertus, Erin D. Mooney, Gregor Noll, Mark Raper, Susanne Schmeidl, Astri Suhrke, and Gary Troeller.

Table of Contents

Foreword	ix
Sadako Ogata
Part I: Political, security, and normative perspectives
Refugees, international security, and human vulnerability: Introduction and survey	3	(28)
Edward Newman
Refugees as grounds for international action	31	(19)
Gil Loescher
Refugees and human displacement in contemporary international relations: Reconciling state and individual sovereignty	50	(16)
Gary G. Troeller
Refugee protection policies and security issues	66	(27)
Joanne van Selm
Human security and the protection of refugees	93	(16)
Astri Suhrke
Thinking ethically about refugees: A case for the transformation of global governance	109	(21)
Mervyn Frost
The early warning of forced migration: State or human security?	130	(29)
Susanne Schmeidl
Part II: Displacement, return, and resettlement
Towards a protection regime for internally displaced persons	159	(22)
Erin D. Mooney
Reconciling control and compassion? Human smuggling and the right to asylum	181	(14)
Khalid Koser
Post-conflict peace-building and the return of refugees: Concepts, practices, and institutions	195	(26)
B. S. Chimni
The long-term challenges of reconstruction and reintegration: Case studies of Haiti and Bosnia--Herzegovina	221	(29)
Patricia Weiss Fagen
Sovereignty, gender, and displacement	250	(27)
Julie Mertus
Part III: Actors and institutions
Securitizing sovereignty? States, refugees, and the regionalization of international law	277	(29)
Gregor Noll
A new Tower of Babel? Reappraising the architecture of refugee protection	306	(24)
William Maley
Distance makes the heart grow fonder: Media images of refugees and asylum seekers	330	(20)
Peter Mares
Changing roles of NGOs in refugee assistance	350	(17)
Mark Raper
List of contributors	367	(6)
Index	373