Global Refugee Crisis - A Reference Handbook

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.

About the author

MARK GIBNEY is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Purdue University. He is the author of Stranger or Friends: Principles for a New Alien Admission Policy (Greenwood Press, 1986). He has also written a number of law journal articles on U.S. immigration and refugee policy, and the judiciary's role in the conduct of foreign affairs.

Product details

• Authors: Mark Gibney, Gibney Mark
• Publisher: Abc Clio Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.09.2010
• EAN: 9781598844559
• ISBN: 978-1-59884-455-9
• No. of pages: 344
• Series: Contemporary World Issues; Contemporary World Issues (Har; Contemporary World Issues (Har; Contemporary World Issues
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Dictionaries, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Globalization, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Globalization, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Peace, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Reference, Current Events and Issues: International