The International Containment of Displaced Persons: Humanitarian Spaces Without Exit - Couverture rigide

Dubernet, Cecile

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0754617726 ISBN 13 : 9780754617723

Editeur : Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2001

Synopsis

This work examines four post-Cold War interventions launched on behalf of people on the move: international action in Iraq, Bosnia, Somalia and Rwanda. Because these crises accompanied the emergence of the concept of Internationally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in international relations, they have shaped the understandings of forced displacement issues, such as ethnic cleansing, need and humanitarian action. As reforms of humanitarian action are ongoing, it is important to grasp what actors have sought to achieve with regard to IDPs, and what they achieved in fact. The author looks at attitudes towards IDPs, concluding that UN-backed interventions regarding displaced civilians were primarily about deterring, sometimes preventing, them from escaping places of conflict. Protection in this context became a device by which international protagonists sought to contain people on the move within the confines of their collapsed states. As a result, levels of safety effectively granted by the international community depended less on the vulnerability of populations than on Western fears of mass border crossings.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Ashgate Publishing Limited
• Date d'édition: 2001
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0754617726
• ISBN 13: 9780754617723
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 238
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible