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Author Verdirame, Guglielmo, author.

Title Rights in exile : Janus-faced humanitarianism / Guglielmo Verdirame and Barbara Harrell-Bond ; with Zachary Lomo and Hannah Garry and a foreword by Justice Albie Sachs
Published New York : Berghahn Books, 2005
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Description 1 online resource (xxix, 385 pages)
Series Studies in Forced Migration ; volume 17
Studies in forced migration ; v. 17.
Contents Foreword / Albie Sachs -- 1. Refugee law and policy in Kenya and Uganda -- 2. Getting in -- 3. Status-determination procedures : ' ... and when you go to UNHCR, pray' -- 4. Civil and political rights -- 5. Economic, social, and cultural rights -- 6. Refugee protection : what is going wrong?
Summary Of the estimated 12 million refugees in the world, more than 7 million have been confined to camps, effectively "warehoused," in some cases, for 10 years or more. Holding refugees in camps was anathema to the founders of the refugee protection regime. Today, with most refugees encamped in the less developed parts of the world, the humanitarian apparatus has been transformed into a custodial regime for innocent people. Based on rich ethnographic data, Rights in Exile exposes the gap between human rights norms and the mandates of international organisations, on the one hand, and the reality on the ground, on the other. It will be of wide interest to social scientists, and to human rights and international law scholars. Policy makers, donor governments and humanitarian organizations, especially those adopting a "rights-based" approach, will also find it an invaluable resource. But it is the refugees themselves who could benefit the most if these actors absorb its lessons and apply them
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 340-371) and index
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Subject Refugees -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Africa, Eastern
Refugees -- Africa, Eastern
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Emigration & Immigration.
Refugees
Refugees -- Legal status, laws, etc.
Eastern Africa
Form Electronic book
Author Harrell-Bond, Barbara E., author.
Lomo, Zachary, author.
Garry, Hannah, author
Sachs, Albie, 1935- writer of foreword.
ISBN 9781782387268
1782387269