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Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) are persons who have been forced to leave their places of residence due to armed conflict, human rights violations, and natural or man-made disasters, but who have not crossed an international border. This book explores to what extent the protection of IDPs complements or conflicts with international refugee law.
List of contents
- 1: Introduction
- 2: The Relationship between Internally Displaced Persons and Refugees
- 3: Legal and Institutional Protection of Internally Displaced Persons
- 4: Internal Displacement and the Internal Protection Alternative
- 5: The UN High Commissioner for Refugees' Involvement with Internally Displaced Persons: Undermining International Refugee Law?
- 6: Article 1D of the 1951 Refugee Convention and Internally Displaced Person
- 7: Conclusion
- Bibliography
About the author
Bríd Ní Ghráinne is an Assistant Professor in Law at Maynooth University; Senior Researcher at the Judicial Studies Institute, Masaryk University; Senior Affiliate and Lecturer at the Refugee Law Initiative, University of London; Senior Non-Resident Fellow at the Institute of International Relations Prague; and Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Reading. She holds a DPhil from the University of Oxford; an LLM in Public International Law from Universiteit Leiden; and a BCL (International) from the National University of Ireland, Galway. She has published widely on the topics of forced migration and human rights law.
Summary
Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) are persons who have been forced to leave their places of residence due to armed conflict, human rights violations, and natural or man-made disasters, but who have not crossed an international border. This book explores to what extent the protection of IDPs complements or conflicts with international refugee law.
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This monograph is an important milestone in the study of internally displaced persons' (IDP) protection. Ní Ghráinne's book brilliantly helps us understand how the legal and institutional framework of IDP protection has developed and interacts with international refugee law, complementary protection, and the internal flight alternative. She convincingly demonstrates that the increase in IDP protection does not, as a matter of law, undermine refugee protection. Given its extremely insightful, thorough, and documented analysis, this monograph will certainly become an indispensable point of reference for anyone following IDP policies and, more generally, international refugee law.
