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The Uprooted
Improving Humanitarian Responses to Forced Migration
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2005
Summary
By conservative estimates about 50 million migrants are currently living outside of their home communities, forced to flee to obtain some measure of safety and security. In addition to persecution, human rights violations, repression, conflict, and natural and human-made disasters, current causes of forced migration include environmental and development-induced factors. Today's migrants include the internally displaced, a category that has only recently entered the international lexicon. But the legal and institutional system created in the aftermath of World War II to address refugee movements is now proving inadequate to provide appropriate assistance and protection to the full range of forced migrants needing attention today. The Uprooted is the first volume to methodically examine the progress and persistent shortcomings of the current humanitarian regime. The authors, all experts in the field of forced migration, describe the organizational, political, and conceptual shortcomings that are creating the gaps and inefficiencies of international and national agencies to reach entire categories of forced migrants. They make policy-based recommendations to improve international, regional, national, and local responses in areas including organization, security, funding, and durability of response. For all those working on behalf of the world's forced migrants, The Uprooted serves as a call to arms, emphasizing the urgent need to develop more comprehensive and cohesive strategies to address forced migration in its complexity.
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Copyright year
2005
ISBN-Print
978-0-7391-1083-6
ISBN-Online
978-0-7391-6219-4
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
295
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Acknowledgments No access
1 Introduction No access Pages 1 - 29
2 Improving Legal Frameworks No access Pages 30 - 80
3 Evolving Institutional Responses: Toward a UN High Commissioner for Forced Migrants No access Pages 81 - 127
4 Funding Humanitarian Operations No access Pages 128 - 187
5 Providing Security to Forced Migrants and Humanitarian Operations No access Pages 188 - 225
6 Challenge of Finding Solutions for a Growing Population of Forced Migrants No access Pages 226 - 260
