Global Refugee Crisis: A Reference Handbook

Global Refugee Crisis: A Reference Handbook
ISBN-10
1598844563
ISBN-13
9781598844566
Category
Political Science
Pages
344
Language
English
Published
2010-09-16
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Author
Mark Gibney

Description

This book documents the current global refugee crisis and examines the interrelated factors of immigration enforcement, international human rights law, political violence, and refugee protection. There are two disparate components to the global refugee crisis: first, there are about 46 million refugees and Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs), most of whom are struggling to survive in the poorest and most violent countries in the world, and second, our interpretation of international human rights law allows this state of affairs to worsen. Refugee protection has been a longstanding policy that ostensibly protects victims of human rights violations from other countries. In actuality, protection is largely negated by systematic efforts by industrialized states to reduce the number of refugees arriving at the borders. This book provides a comprehensive examination of this worldwide problem and rejects the idea that the majority of asylum seekers abuse the system to gain entrance into the country.

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