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Author Gibney, Mark

Title Global refugee crisis : a reference handbook / Mark Gibney
Edition 2nd ed
Published Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, ©2010

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 325 pages) : illustrations
Series Contemporary world issues
Contemporary world issues.
Contents The history of protecting refugees -- The post-war human rights revolution -- The 1951 refugee convention -- Alienage -- "Well-founded fear" -- Persecution -- The nexus requirement -- Exclusions -- Cessations -- Refugee rights -- Nonrefoulement -- Rights owed to refugees physically present in the receiving state -- Rights owed to refugees lawfully in the contracting state -- Rights owed to refugees lawfully staying in the contracting state -- Rights owed to refugees residing in the contracting state -- Interface with international and regional human rights instruments -- Nonrefoulement -- Racism -- Detention -- Economic, social, and cultural rights -- Rights of the child -- Domestic procedures -- Establishing eligibility -- Denial of asylum hearings and accelerated procedures -- Returned refugees -- Problems, controversies, and solutions -- Asylum abuse? -- United Kingdom -- The Netherlands -- Sweden -- United States -- Summary -- Nonrefoulement: when (and where) does the prohibition apply? -- Sale v. Haitian centers council, 509 U.S. 155 (1993) -- Justice Blackmun's dissent -- The practices of other states -- Re-conceptualizing human rights and refugee protection -- The responsibility to protect (R2P) -- Extraterritorial obligations (ETO) consortium -- Implications for refugee protection -- Special U.S. issues -- A historical survey of U.S. alien admission practices -- The cold war, U.S. foreign policy, and refugee protection -- Current refugee/asylum law and practice in the United States -- Overseas refugee program -- Criticisms of ORP -- Asylum -- 1996 changes to U.S. asylum law -- Asylum and withholding of deportation -- Disqualifications -- Detention -- Temporary protection -- Biographical sketches -- Mahnaz Afkhami -- Sonya Aho -- Madeleine Albright -- Isabel Allende -- Hannah Arendt -- Christine Arnothy -- Mathangi Maya Arulpragasam (a.k.a. M.I.A.) -- Bertolt Brecht -- Nadia Comaneci -- Zohra Dauod -- Leandro Despouy -- Emmanuel Dongala -- Ariel Dorfman -- Jaroslav Drobny -- Albert Einstein -- Nawal El Saadawi -- Philip Emeagwali -- Enrico Fermi -- Tenzin Gyatso -- Thich Nhat Hanh -- Jóse Ramos Horta -- Michaëlle Jean -- Wassily Kandinsky -- Fazil Kawani -- Mebrahtom Keflezighi -- Akbar Khurasani -- Walter Lam -- Raphael Lemkin -- Miriam Makeba -- Tatyana Mamonova -- Predrag Matvejevic -- Thabo Mbeki -- Golda Meir -- Makau Mutua -- Martina Navratilova -- Le Thanh Nhon -- Rudolf Nureyev -- Edward Said -- Nolvia Dominguez Skjetne -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -- George Soros -- Loung Ung -- Alek Wek -- Gao Xingjian -- International and regional treaties -- Conventions relating to the status of refugees -- Protocol relating to the status of refugees -- Organization of African unity, convention governing the specific aspects of refugee problems in Africa -- Cartagena declaration on refugees -- Convention against torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment -- Data on asylum applicants for selected western states 2008, 1998, and 1988
Summary Covers the current global refugee crisis and examines the interrelated factors of immigration enforcement, international human rights law, political violence, and refugee protection
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Print version record
Subject Refugees.
Refugees -- Services for
Disaster relief.
Refugees
Relief Work
refugees.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Security.
Disaster relief
Refugees
Refugees -- Services for
Form Electronic book
Author Loescher, Gil, 1945-2020. Global refugee crisis
LC no. 2010030686
ISBN 9781598844566
1598844563
1849728615
9781849728614
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9781282933897
9786612933899
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