No Return, No Refuge : Rites and Rights in Minority Repatriation / Elazar Barkan, Howard Adelman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Adelman, Howard, author.

Barkan, Elazar, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Return migration.

Repatriation.

Minorities.

Ethnic relations.

Restorative justice.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (361 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2011]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Refugee displacement is a global phenomenon that has uprooted millions of individuals over the past century. In the 1980s, repatriation became the preferred option for resolving the refugee crisis. As human rights achieved global eminence, refugees' right of return fell under its umbrella. Yet return as a right and its practice as a rite created a radical disconnect between principle and everyday practice, and the repatriation of refugees and Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) remains elusive in cases of forced displacement of victims by ethnic conflict.Reviewing cases of ethnic displacement throughout the twentieth century in Europe, Asia, and Africa, Howard Adelman and Elazar Barkan juxtapose the empirical lack of repatriation in cases of ethnic conflict, unless accompanied by coercion. The emphasis on repatriation during the last several decades has obscured other options, leaving refugees to spend years warehoused in camps. Repatriation takes place when identity, defined by ethnicity or religion, is not at the center of the displacing conflict, or when the ethnic group to which the refugees belong are not a minority in their original country or in the region to which they want to return. Rather than perpetuate a ritual belief in return as a right without the prospect of realization, Adelman and Barkan call for solutions that bracket return as a primary focus in cases of ethnic conflict.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction

[1] The Rites of Rights

[2] The Right to Expel as an International Norm: 1900-1945

[3] Outlawing Ethnic Cleansing

[4] Reversing Ethnic Cleansing

[5] Resettling Refugees from Asia

[6] Force and Repatriation in Africa

[7] From Jewish Messianism to the Law of Return

[8] Palestinians and the Right of Return

[9] Rights and Return

[10] Ethnic Conflict and Nonreturn

Notes

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

9786613786470

9781281605788

1281605786

9780231526906

0231526903

OCLC:

818856460