The arc of protection : reforming the international refugee regime / T. Alexander Aleinikoff and Leah Zamore.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Aleinikoff, T. Alexander (Thomas Alexander), 1952- author.

Zamore, Leah, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Refugees--History--21st century.

Refugees.

Refugees--International cooperation.

Humanitarian assistance.

History.

Physical Description:

viii, 169 pages ; 21 cm

Other Title:

Reforming the international refugee regime

Place of Publication:

Stanford, California : Stanford Briefs, an imprint of Stanford University Press, [2019]

Summary:

The international refugee regime is fundamentally broken. Designed in the wake of World War II to provide protection and assistance, the system is unable to address the record numbers of persons displaced by conflict and violence today. States have put up fences and adopted policies to deny, deter, and detain asylum seekers. People recognized as refugees are routinely denied rights guaranteed by international law. The results are dismal for the millions of refugees around the world who are left with slender prospects to rebuild their lives or contribute to host communities. T. Alexander Aleinikoff and Leah Zamore lay bare the underlying global crisis of responsibility. The Arc of Protection adopts a revisionist and critical perspective that examines the original premises of the international refugee regime. Aleinikoff and Zamore identify compromises at the founding of the system that attempted to balance humanitarian ideals with sovereign control of their borders by states. This book offers a way out of the current international morass through refocusing on responsibility-sharing, seeing the humanitarian-development divide in a new light, and putting refugee rights front and center.

Contents:

The inconvenient refugee

The international protection regime

Principles of protection

From whom is international protection warranted?

Conclusion : reform.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 141-169).

ISBN:

1503611418

9781503611412

OCLC:

1097958853