The international containment of displaced persons : humanitarian spaces without exit / Cécile Dubernet.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dubernet, Cécile.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United Nations Protection Force.

Humanitarian intervention.

Refugees--International cooperation.

Refugees.

Physical Description:

x, 227 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Aldershot ; Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate, [2001]

Contents:

Introduction: Presence does not Equal Protection 1

1 Internal Displacement: an International Problem 5

IDP: an Emergent yet Little-Known Label 6

Questioning Policy towards IDPs 21

Why Focus on Internal Displacement? 31

2 Behind Safety Promises, the Quest for Stability 45

Tales of Exodus and Indifference 47

From Impassivity to Action 57

International Presence, for what Purpose? 65

Unraveling the Threads: Why Protection was Promised 75

3 Humanitarian Spaces without Exit 93

Aid, Need and the Control of Migration Flows 93

From Unsafe Heavens to Nowhere 107

Safe Environments at Strategic Locations 121

4 Restore Hope versus Restore Order 137

From Neglect to Unwanted Fame: the March of the Somalis 138

Care and Control: Discord over Objectives 146

IDP's Options: Set by Others 156

5 Fearing the Uprooted 165

Protection: Tool rather than Fig-Leaf 165

There is no "Lack of Will" 180

The Human Costs of Preserving Borders 192.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0754617726

OCLC:

46909868