The property rights of refugees and internally displaced persons : beyond restitution / Anneke Smit.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Smit, Anneke, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Principles on housing and property restitution for refugees and displaced persons.

Refugees--Legal status, laws, etc.

Refugees.

Internally displaced person--Legal status, laws, etc.

Internally displaced person.

Restitution.

Repatriation.

Right of property.

Refugees--Housing.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (267 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon [England] ; New York : Routledge, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Property Rights of Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons: Beyond Restitution explores how the protection of housing and property rights can contribute to durable solutions to displacement. The focus of most of the international community's recent protection efforts has been on returning displaced persons to their homes following armed conflict. ?This prioritization has been entrenched further by the 2005 United Nations Principles on Housing and Property Restitution for Refugees and Displaced Persons (the ""Pinheiro Principles""). Yet as Anneke Smit chronicles in this book, the internat

Contents:

The development of the right to return to one's home of origin

Modern experiences with post-conflict restitution and return

Restitution and return "home"

Local integration and the regularization of collective centre space

Compensation and regularizing secondary occupation.

Notes:

"A GlassHouse book."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-136-33143-3

1-280-68161-6

9786613658555

1-136-33144-1

0-203-12219-4

9780203122198

OCLC:

804665002