This book examines convergent trends in asylum regimes around the world. It covers the main regions of the world where asylum is a critical problem: Europe, Africa, and Central America. It also looks at the major issues: human rights, non-governmental organization involvement, gender, return, compre
Global Changes in Asylum Regimes
β Scribed by DaniΓ¨le Joly (eds.)
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Year
- 2002
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 237
- Series
- Migration, Minorities and Citizenship
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Table of Contents
Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Introduction....Pages 1-14
Certain Violence, Uncertain Protection....Pages 15-37
New Asylum Regimes or a World without Asylum? The Myth of International Protection....Pages 38-47
Temporary Protection and the Bosnian Crisis: a Cornerstone of the New European Regime....Pages 48-78
Lessons from the Kosovo Refugee Crisis: Innovations in Protection and Burden-Sharing....Pages 79-104
Asylum in Europe: Underpinning Parameters....Pages 105-122
Return, Human Rights and International Involvement: Refugees as Social and Political Actors, the Guatemalan Case....Pages 123-136
Refugee Women: a Gendered and Political Analysis of the Refugee Experience....Pages 137-153
Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons: Africaβs Liability for the Next Millennium....Pages 154-178
What Was Refugee Status? Legislating the Changing Practice of Refugee Law....Pages 179-203
Human Rights Organisations and the Formation of Refugees Regimes....Pages 204-214
Back Matter....Pages 215-224
β¦ Subjects
Politics of the Welfare State; Social Justice, Equality and Human Rights; Ethnicity Studies; Migration; International Relations; Political Science
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