Ethics and Practice of Refugee Repatriation
Title | Ethics and Practice of Refugee Repatriation PDF eBook |
Author | Mollie Gerver |
Publisher | Edinburgh University Press |
Pages | 288 |
Release | 2018-11-14 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1474437494 |
Mollie Gerver considers when bodies such as the UN, government agencies and NGOs ought to help refugees to return home. Drawing on original interviews with 172 refugees before and after repatriation, she resolves six moral puzzles arising from repatriation using the methods of analytical philosophy to provide a more ethical framework.
No Return, No Refuge
Title | No Return, No Refuge PDF eBook |
Author | Howard Adelman |
Publisher | Columbia University Press |
Pages | 361 |
Release | 2011-07-05 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0231526903 |
Refugee displacement is a global phenomenon that has uprooted millions of individuals over the past century. In the 1980s, repatriation became the preferred option for resolving the refugee crisis. As human rights achieved global eminence, refugees' right of return fell under its umbrella. Yet return as a right and its practice as a rite created a radical disconnect between principle and everyday practice, and the repatriation of refugees and Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) remains elusive in cases of forced displacement of victims by ethnic conflict. Reviewing cases of ethnic displacement throughout the twentieth century in Europe, Asia, and Africa, Howard Adelman and Elazar Barkan juxtapose the empirical lack of repatriation in cases of ethnic conflict, unless accompanied by coercion. The emphasis on repatriation during the last several decades has obscured other options, leaving refugees to spend years warehoused in camps. Repatriation takes place when identity, defined by ethnicity or religion, is not at the center of the displacing conflict, or when the ethnic group to which the refugees belong are not a minority in their original country or in the region to which they want to return. Rather than perpetuate a ritual belief in return as a right without the prospect of realization, Adelman and Barkan call for solutions that bracket return as a primary focus in cases of ethnic conflict.
Unjust Borders
Title | Unjust Borders PDF eBook |
Author | Javier S. Hidalgo |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 330 |
Release | 2018-11-07 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1351383272 |
States restrict immigration on a massive scale. Governments fortify their borders with walls and fences, authorize border patrols, imprison migrants in detention centers, and deport large numbers of foreigners. Unjust Borders: Individuals and the Ethics of Immigration argues that immigration restrictions are systematically unjust and examines how individual actors should respond to this injustice. Javier Hidalgo maintains that individuals can rightfully resist immigration restrictions and often have strong moral reasons to subvert these laws. This book makes the case that unauthorized migrants can permissibly evade, deceive, and use defensive force against immigration agents, that smugglers can aid migrants in crossing borders, and that citizens should disobey laws that compel them to harm immigrants. Unjust Borders is a meditation on how individuals should act in the midst of pervasive injustice.
The Ethics and Practice of Refugee Repatriation
Title | The Ethics and Practice of Refugee Repatriation PDF eBook |
Author | Mollie Gerver |
Publisher | EUP |
Pages | 252 |
Release | 2020-08-31 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 9781474437486 |
Mollie Gerver considers when bodies such as the UN, government agencies and NGOs ought to help refugees to return home. Drawing on original interviews with 172 refugees before and after repatriation, she resolves six moral puzzles arising from repatriation using the methods of analytical philosophy to provide a more ethical framework.
Repatriation, Insecurity, and Peace
Title | Repatriation, Insecurity, and Peace PDF eBook |
Author | Masako Yonekawa |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 106 |
Release | 2020-06-13 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 9789811528491 |
This book analyzes three major issues related to refugees: repatriation and its accompanying concerns – peace and security. Since the late 1980s, repatriation has been considered the most appropriate solution for refugees. This applies if the home country is peaceful, but often repatriation takes places in conflict situations, which can lead to national and human insecurity problems. Rwanda is one of the countries where the question of repatriation has become highly controversial since the 1990s. The United Nations maintains that Rwanda has changed significantly since the 1994 genocide, and today enjoys an essential level of peace and security. This explains why the UN has promoted repatriation and recommended the cessation of Rwandan refugee status, yet the vast majority of refugees have refused to return to the country. Providing insights from researchers, former UN staff members, journalists, and, most importantly, former Rwandan refugees themselves into both the theory and practice of refugees' repatriation as well as the security and peace issues, this book appeals to postgraduate students, academics, policymakers, and practitioners working for international organizations and NGOs.
Refugee Repatriation
Title | Refugee Repatriation PDF eBook |
Author | Megan Bradley |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 307 |
Release | 2013-03-21 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1107311144 |
Voluntary repatriation is now the predominant solution to refugee crises, yet the responsibilities states of origin bear towards their repatriating citizens are under-examined. Through a combination of legal and moral analysis, and case studies of the troubled repatriation movements to Guatemala, Bosnia and Mozambique, Megan Bradley develops and refines an original account of the minimum conditions of a 'just return' process. The goal of a just return process must be to recast a new relationship of rights and duties between the state and its returning citizens, and the conditions of just return match the core duties states should provide for all their citizens: equal, effective protection for security and basic human rights, including accountability for violations of these rights. This volume evaluates the ways in which different forms of redress such as restitution and compensation may help enable just returns, and traces the emergence and evolution of international norms on redress for refugees.
The Oxford Handbook of International Refugee Law
Title | The Oxford Handbook of International Refugee Law PDF eBook |
Author | Cathryn Costello |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 1337 |
Release | 2021 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 0198848633 |
This Handbook draws together leading and emerging scholars to provide a comprehensive critical analysis of international refugee law. This book provides an account as well as a critique of the status quo, setting the agenda for future research in the field.