| Description |
291 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction / Lenora Foerstel -- Refugees and the Power Elite / Margarita Papandreou -- Refugees: Root Causes from an Historical Viewpoint / Lenora Foerstel -- Like Sand in the Wind: The Making of an American Indian Diaspora / Ward Churchill -- Population: Delusion and Reality / Amartya Sen -- Cuba: The Real Causes of Emigration / Teresa Gutierrez -- Better than Fiction: The Odyssey of the Haitian Refugees / Jocelyn McCalla -- The Effect of U.S. Foreign Policy on Asylum Applicants / Lilia Velasquez -- A First-Hand Account of the Role of Power in East Timor and Haiti / Amy Goodman -- Israeli Women and the Occupation of Palestine / Yvonne Deutsh -- After Oslo: The Roots of the Israeli-Palestine Conflict Still Unresolved / Roni Ben Efrat -- The Drift Toward Military Intervention in the Balkans: Another Vietnam? / Sean Gervasi -- Bosnian Refugees - Pawns in the "Great Game": A new U.S. -CIA War / Sara Flounders |
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Displacement Related to Human Rights Abuses and Aid Manipulation by the Military Parties to the War in Southern Sudan / Jemera Rone -- Genocide in Rwanda / Jeff Drumtra -- Inequality and the Emergence of a New Global Underclass: The Refugee Woman / Nick Papandreou -- Environment, Refugees, and Displaced Persons: The Gender Perspective / Julia Clones -- The Militarization of U.S. Foreign Policy / Sissy Farenthold -- From Powerlessness to Empowerment: Turning Refugee Experience into a Movement for Human Rights / Georgina Ritchie -- Theory and Progress of Human Rights: The UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples / Robert Merrill -- App. 1. Excerpts from International Instruments on Refugee Status -- App. 2. UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People -- App. 3. Women for Mutual Security -- App. 4. Contributors to this book |
| Notes |
Compiled from papers on a conference, Dialogue on Refugee and Displaced Women in Times of Conflict |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Military history, Modern -- 20th century -- Congresses.
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Political refugees -- History -- 20th century -- Congresses.
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Author |
Foerstel, Lenora, 1929-
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| LC no. |
96012961 |
| ISBN |
0944624316 (acid-free paper) |
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