ISBN:
9780415857314
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (400 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Humanitarian Crises and Migration : Causes, Consequences and Responses
DDC:
304.8
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
Whether it is the stranding of tens of thousands of migrant workers at the Libyan-Tunisian border, or the large-scale displacement triggered by floods in Pakistan and Colombia, hardly a week goes by in which humanitarian crises have not precipitated human movement. While some people move internally, others internationally, some temporarily and others permanently, there are also those who become ""trapped"" in place, unable to move to greater safety. Responses to these ""crisis migrations"" are varied and inadequate. Only a fraction of ""crisis migrants"" are protected by existing international
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Notes on contributors; Preface and acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Part I Introduction and a Theoretical Perspective; 1 Setting the Scene; 2 Conceptualizing "Crisis Migration": A theoretical perspective; Part II Case Studies of Humanitarian Crises: Movements, protection implications and responses; 3 Rising Waters, Broken Lives: Experience from Pakistan and Colombia floods suggests new approaches are needed; 4 Recurrent Acute Disasters, Crisis Migration: Haiti has had it all
Description / Table of Contents:
5 Health Crises and Migration6 Criminal Violence, Displacement and Migration in Mexico and Central America; 7 Intractability and Change in Crisis Migration: North Koreans in China and Burmese in Thailand; 8 Environmental Processes, Political Conflict and Migration: A Somali case study; 9 Environmental Stress, Displacement and the Challenge of Rights Protection; 10 Enhancing Adaptation Options and Managing Human Mobility in the Context of Climate Change; 11 Community Relocations: The Arctic and South Pacific; 12 Something Old and Something New: Resettlement in the twenty-first century
Description / Table of Contents:
Part III At-Risk Populations13 Protecting Non-Citizens in Situations of Conflict, Violence and Disaster; 14 "Trapped" Populations: Limits on mobility at times of crisis; 15 Policy Adrift: The challenge of mixed migration by sea; 16 Flight to the Cities: Urban options and adaptations; Part IV Governance; 17 The Global Governance of Crisis Migration; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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