Global Refugee Crisis: A Reference Handbook (contemporary World Issues) [Hardcover]

This book documents the current global refugee crisis and examines the interrelated factors of immigration enforcement, international human rights law, political violence, and refugee protection.

There are two disparate components to the global refugee crisis: first, there are about 46 million refugees and Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs), most of whom are struggling to survive in the poorest and most violent countries in the world, and second, our interpretation of international human rights law allows this state of affairs to worsen.

Refugee protection has been a longstanding policy that ostensibly protects victims of human rights violations from other countries. In actuality, protection is largely negated by systematic efforts by industrialized states to reduce the number of refugees arriving at the borders. This book provides a comprehensive examination of this worldwide problem and rejects the idea that the majority of asylum seekers abuse the system to gain entrance into the country.

List of Tables and Figures
Preface
1 Background and History
Introduction
The History of Protecting Refugees
The Post-War Human Rights Revolution
The 1951 Refugee Convention
Alienage
Well-Founded Fear,
Persecution
The Nexus Requirement
Exclusions
Exceptions to Nonrefoulement
Cessations
Refugee Rights
Nonrefoulement
Rights Owed to Refugees Physically Present in the Receiving State
Rights Owed to Refugees Lawfully in the Contracting State
Rights Owed to Refugees Lawfully Staying in the Contracting State
Rights Owed to Refugees Residing in the Contracting State
Interface with International and Regional Human Rights Instruments
Nonrefoulement
Racism
Detention
Economic, Social, and Cultural Rl&