Driven from home : protecting the rights of forced migrants

Driven from home : protecting the rights of forced migrants /

Throughout human history people have been driven from their homes by wars, unjust treatment, earthquakes, and hurricanes. The reality of forced migration is not new, nor is awareness of the suffering of the displaced a recent discovery. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees estimates tha...

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Corporate Author: Boston College. Center for Human Rights and International Justice
Other Authors: Hollenbach, David (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press, 2010
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. Global Cultural Studies.
Subjects:
Refugees.
Forced migration.
Human rights.
Refugees
Human Rights
refugees.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: human rights and new challenges of protecting forced migrants / David Hollenbach
  • New realities of protection in a human rights framework
  • Rethinking the international refugee regime in light of human rights and the global common good / Susan F. Martin
  • Normative responses : religion, human rights, gender and culture
  • Justice for the displaced : the challenge of a Christian understanding / Agbonkhianmeghe E. Orobator
  • Human rights as a framework for advocacy on behalf of the displaced : the approach of the Catholic Church / Silvano Tomasi
  • No easy road to freedom : engendering and enculturating forced migration / M. Brinton Lykes
  • Protecting rights at the border : denial of asylum and systemic responses
  • Human rights as a challenge to national policies that exclude refugees : two case studies from Southeast Asia / Frank Brennan
  • Loving humanity while accepting people : a critique and a cautious affirmation of the "political" in U.S. asylum and refugee law / Daniel Kanstroom
  • Closed borders, human rights, and democratic legitimation / Arash Abizadeh
  • Protection in the face of conflict and war
  • The experience of displacement by conflict : the plight of Iraqi refugees / Maryanne Loughry
  • The ethics and policy of war in light of displacement / J. Bryan Hehir
  • Reinserting never into never again : political innovations and the responsibility to protect / Thomas G. Weiss
  • Protection in response to economic need and environmental crises
  • Economic and environmental displacement : implications for durable solutions / Mary M. Delorey
  • Refugees or economic migrants : Catholic thought on the moral roots of the distinction / Christopher Llanos.

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