An edition of Global refugee crisis
(2010)
Global refugee crisis
a reference handbook
2nd ed.
by Mark Gibney
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Global refugee crisis: a reference handbook
2010, ABC-CLIO
in English
- 2nd ed.
1598844555 9781598844559
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Table of 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.
Edition Notes
Rev. ed. of: The global refugee crisis : a reference handbook / Gil Loescher, Ann Dull Loescher. 1994.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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