TY - BOOK ID - 31396453 TI - Survival Migration PY - 2013 SN - 1322523509 0801468965 9780801451065 080145106X 9780801477775 0801477778 9780801468964 0801468957 9780801468957 PB - Ithaca, NY DB - UniCat KW - POLITICAL SCIENCE KW - Human Rights KW - Refugees KW - Political refugees KW - Forced migration KW - Human rights KW - Social Welfare & Social Work KW - Social Sciences KW - Social Welfare & Social Work - General KW - Africa, Sub-Saharan KW - Emigration and immigration KW - Political aspects KW - Politics and government KW - #SBIB:327.6H02 KW - Internationale problemen: bijzondere vraagstukken KW - Compulsory resettlement KW - Involuntary resettlement KW - Migration, Forced KW - Relocation, Forced KW - Resettlement, Involuntary KW - Africa, Black KW - Africa, Subsaharan KW - Africa, Tropical KW - Africa South of the Sahara KW - Black Africa KW - Sub-Sahara Africa KW - Sub-Saharan Africa KW - Subsahara Africa KW - Subsaharan Africa KW - Tropical Africa KW - Asylum seekers KW - Refugees, Political KW - Cleansing, Ethnic KW - Ethnic cleansing KW - Ethnic purification KW - Purification, Ethnic KW - Migration, Internal KW - Displaced persons KW - Persons KW - Aliens KW - Deportees KW - Exiles KW - Basic rights KW - Civil rights (International law) KW - Rights, Human KW - Rights of man KW - Human security KW - Transitional justice KW - Truth commissions KW - Law and legislation KW - #SBIB:39A6 KW - #SBIB:314H252 KW - Etniciteit / Migratiebeleid en -problemen KW - Internationale migratie UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:31396453 AB - International treaties, conventions, and organizations to protect refugees were established in the aftermath of World War II to protect people escaping targeted persecution by their own governments. However, the nature of cross-border displacement has transformed dramatically since then. Such threats as environmental change, food insecurity, and generalized violence force massive numbers of people to flee states that are unable or unwilling to ensure their basic rights, as do conditions in failed and fragile states that make possible human rights deprivations. Because these reasons do not meet the legal understanding of persecution, the victims of these circumstances are not usually recognized as "refugees," preventing current institutions from ensuring their protection. In this book, Alexander Betts develops the concept of "survival migration" to highlight the crisis in which these people find themselves.Examining flight from three of the most fragile states in Africa-Zimbabwe, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Somalia-Betts explains variation in institutional responses across the neighboring host states. There is massive inconsistency. Some survival migrants are offered asylum as refugees; others are rounded up, detained, and deported, often in brutal conditions. The inadequacies of the current refugee regime are a disaster for human rights and gravely threaten international security. In Survival Migration, Betts outlines these failings, illustrates the enormous human suffering that results, and argues strongly for an expansion of protected categories. ER -