TY  - BOOK
AU  - Betts,Alexander
ED  - Project Muse.
TI  - Survival Migration : : Failed Governance and the Crisis of Displacement / 
SN  - 9780801468964
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Ithaca
PB  - Cornell University Press
KW  - Menschenrecht
KW  - gnd
KW  - Migration
KW  - Politischer Flüchtling
KW  - Refugees
KW  - fast
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - Political refugees
KW  - Human rights
KW  - Forced migration
KW  - Emigration and immigration
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE
KW  - Public Policy
KW  - Social Services & Welfare
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Social Security
KW  - Human Rights
KW  - International Relations
KW  - General
KW  - Society and social sciences Society and social sciences
KW  - bicssc
KW  - International relations
KW  - Droits de l'homme (Droit international)
KW  - Afrique subsaharienne
KW  - Études de cas
KW  - Refugies
KW  - Social Welfare & Social Work
KW  - Social Sciences
KW  - Africa, Sub-Saharan
KW  - Case studies
KW  - 21st century
KW  - Sub-Saharan Africa
KW  - Politique et gouvernement
KW  - 21e siecle
KW  - Émigration et immigration
KW  - Aspect politique
KW  - rvmgf
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - local
N1  - Survival migration -- The national politics of international institutions -- South Africa : the ad hoc response to the Zimbabwean influx -- Botswana : the division of Zimbabweans into refugees and migrants -- Angola : the expulsion of the Congolese back to the southern provinces -- Tanzania : the paradoxical response to congolese from South Kivu -- Kenya : humanitarian containment and the Somalis -- Yemen : contrasting responses to Somalis and Ethiopians -- Improving the refugee protection regime; Open Access
N2  - International treaties, conventions, and organizations to protect refugees were established in the aftermath of World War II to protect people escaping targeted persecution by their own governments. However, the nature of cross-border displacement has transformed dramatically since then. Such threats as environmental change, food insecurity, and generalized violence force massive numbers of people to flee states that are unable or unwilling to ensure their basic rights, as do conditions in failed and fragile states that make possible human rights deprivations. Because these reasons do not meet the legal understanding of persecution, the victims of these circumstances are not usually recognized as "refugees," preventing current institutions from ensuring their protection. In this book, Alexander Betts develops the concept of "survival migration" to highlight the crisis in which these people find themselves. Examining flight from three of the most fragile states in Africa--Zimbabwe, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Somalia--Betts explains variation in institutional responses across the neighboring host states. There is massive inconsistency. Some survival migrants are offered asylum as refugees; others are rounded up, detained, and deported, often in brutal conditions. The inadequacies of the current refugee regime are a disaster for human rights and gravely threaten international security. In Survival Migration, Betts outlines these failings, illustrates the enormous human suffering that results, and argues strongly for an expansion of protected categories
UR  - https://muse.jhu.edu/book/43593/
ER  -