The Refugee in International Society
Subtitle: Between Sovereigns (Cambridge Studies in International Relations)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: April 30, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780521688956
Subjects: International relations; Public international law; Refugees; Political Science; Politics / Current Events; Politics/International Relations; International Relations - General; Political Science / International Relations
Description: The historical and normative approach of this book suggests new ways to understand refugees and to formulate responses to them. By examining the issue from an international society perspective, this book highlights how refugees are an inevitable, if unanticipated, result of erecting political borders.

With the unrelenting unrest in places such as Iraq, Afghanistan and the Sudan, the plight of refugees has become an increasingly discussed topic in international relations. Why do we have refugees? When did the refugee 'problem' emerge? How can the refugee ever be reconciled with an international system that rests on sovereignty? Looking at three key periods - the inter-war period, the Cold War and the present day - Emma Haddad demonstrates how a specific image has defined the refugee since the international states system arose in its modern form and that refugees have thus been qualitatively the same over the course of history. This historical and normative approach suggests new ways to understand refugees and to formulate responses to them. By examining the issue from an international society perspective, this book highlights how refugees are an inevitable, if unanticipated, result of erecting political borders. -- ‡c From back cover.