Title Survival migration : failed governance and the crisis of displacement / Alexander Betts

Published Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2013 ©2013

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Description 1 online resource Contents 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 Summary 880-01 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 880-01/(Q 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 ђ́جrefugees, ђ́ح preventing current institutions from ensuring their protection. In this book, Alexander Betts develops the concept of ђ́جsurvival migrationђ́ح to highlight the crisis in which these people find themselves. Examining flight from three of the most fragile states in Afrісађ́ؤZimbabwe, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Somalіађ́ؤBetts 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-225) and index Notes In English This work is licensed by Knowledge Unlatched under a Creative Commons license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode In Title is part of the collection: De Gruyter Rights, Action, and Social Responsibility Subject Refugees -- Africa, Sub-Saharan -- Case studies Political refugees -- Africa, Sub-Saharan -- Case studies Forced migration -- Africa, Sub-Saharan -- Case studies Human rights -- Africa, Sub-Saharan -- Case studies International relations. Politics and government. Society and social sciences Society and social sciences. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- International Relations -- General. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Human Rights. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Security. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare. Emigration and immigration -- Political aspects Forced migration Human rights Political refugees Politics and government Refugees Politischer Flüchtling Migration Menschenrecht SUBJECT Africa, Sub-Saharan -- Emigration and immigration -- Political aspects -- Case studies Africa, Sub-Saharan -- Politics and government -- 21st century Subject Sub-Saharan Africa Genre/Form Case studies Case studies. Études de cas. Form Electronic book ISBN 0801468965 9780801468964 0801468957 9780801468957

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