Global refugee crisis
Subtitle: a reference handbook
By: Mark Gibney
Contributors: Loescher, Gil
Edition: 2nd ed.
Series: Contemporary world issues; Contemporary world issues
Publisher: ABC-CLIO
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Santa Barbara, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 325
ISBN-13: 9781598844559; 9781598844566
Subjects: Services for; Refugees; Disaster relief
Notes: Rev. ed. of: The global refugee crisis : a reference handbook / Gil Loescher, Ann Dull Loescher. 1994.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The history of protecting refugees; title: The post-war human rights revolution; title: The 1951 refugee convention; title: Alienage; title: "Well-founded fear"; title: Persecution; title: The nexus requirement; title: Exclusions; title: Cessations; title: Refugee rights; title: Nonrefoulement; title: Rights owed to refugees physically present in the receiving state; title: Rights owed to refugees lawfully in the contracting state; title: Rights owed to refugees lawfully staying in the contracting state; title: Rights owed to refugees residing in the contracting state; title: Interface with international and regional human rights instruments; title: Nonrefoulement; title: Racism; title: Detention; title: Economic, social, and cultural rights; title: Rights of the child; title: Domestic procedures; title: Establishing eligibility; title: Denial of asylum hearings and accelerated procedures; title: Returned refugees; title: Problems, controversies, and solutions; title: Asylum abuse?; title: United Kingdom; title: The Netherlands; title: Sweden; title: United States; title: Summary; title: Nonrefoulement: when (and where) does the prohibition apply?; title: Sale v. Haitian centers council, 509 U.S. 155 (1993); title: Justice Blackmun's dissent; title: The practices of other states; title: Re-conceptualizing human rights and refugee protection; title: The responsibility to protect (R2P); title: Extraterritorial obligations (ETO) consortium; title: Implications for refugee protection; title: Special U.S. issues; title: A historical survey of U.S. alien admission practices; title: The cold war, U.S. foreign policy, and refugee protection; title: Current refugee/asylum law and practice in the United States; title: Overseas refugee program; title: Criticisms of ORP; title: Asylum; title: 1996 changes to U.S. asylum law; title: Asylum and withholding of deportation; title: Disqualifications; title: Detention; title: Temporary protection; title: Biographical sketches; title: Mahnaz Afkhami; title: Sonya Aho; title: Madeleine Albright; title: Isabel Allende; title: Hannah Arendt; title: Christine Arnothy; title: Mathangi Maya Arulpragasam (a.k.a. M.I.A.); title: Bertolt Brecht; title: Nadia Comaneci; title: Zohra Dauod; title: Leandro Despouy; title: Emmanuel Dongala; title: Ariel Dorfman; title: Jaroslav Drobny; title: Albert Einstein; title: Nawal El Saadawi; title: Philip Emeagwali; title: Enrico Fermi; title: Tenzin Gyatso; title: Thich Nhat Hanh; title: Jóse Ramos Horta; title: Michaëlle Jean; title: Wassily Kandinsky; title: Fazil Kawani; title: Mebrahtom Keflezighi; title: Akbar Khurasani; title: Walter Lam; title: Raphael Lemkin; title: Miriam Makeba; title: Tatyana Mamonova; title: Predrag Matvejevic; title: Thabo Mbeki; title: Golda Meir; title: Makau Mutua; title: Martina Navratilova; title: Le Thanh Nhon; title: Rudolf Nureyev; title: Edward Said; title: Nolvia Dominguez Skjetne; title: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn; title: George Soros; title: Loung Ung; title: Alek Wek; title: Gao Xingjian; title: International and regional treaties; title: Conventions relating to the status of refugees; title: Protocol relating to the status of refugees; title: Organization of African unity, convention governing the specific aspects of refugee problems in Africa; title: Cartagena declaration on refugees; title: Convention against torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment; title: Data on asylum applicants for selected western states 2008, 1998, and 1988.