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No return, no refuge : rites and rights in minority repatriation /
Refugee displacement is a global phenomenon, uprooting hundreds of millions of individuals over the last century. Yet until the 1980s, repatriation, or the right of return, was not a focus of refugee policy, and though it might enjoy a privileged position in today's debates, repatriation remain...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
2011.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Refugee displacement is a global phenomenon, uprooting hundreds of millions of individuals over the last century. Yet until the 1980s, repatriation, or the right of return, was not a focus of refugee policy, and though it might enjoy a privileged position in today's debates, repatriation remains an elusive outcome for many victims of ethnic conflict. According to Howard Adelman and Elazar Barkan, the roots of this disconnect lie in the modern transformation of repatriation into a universal right, which undermines political solutions to refugee crises. Surveying cases of ethnic. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xviii, 340 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-321) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780231526906 0231526903 9786613786470 6613786470 |