世界的な課題のひとつに難民・強制移動民の問題があります。その背景は戦争や自然災害、文化・政治的弾圧まで多様です。難民を受け入れる側、世界の秩序、難民自身の動機とそれが及ぼす影響を概観し、この現実を理解する上でのそれぞれの必然性に注意を向けます。難民、亡命希望者、国内避難民のアイデンティティ、彼らと強制移動民の違いについて検討するほか、難民問題が20世紀以降の国際社会でいかに中心的な問題へと発展したのか、政府や国際支援団体はこれにどう応えてきたかのかを検証します。
Refugees and other forced migrants are one of the great contemporary challenges the world is confronting. Throughout the world people leave their home countries to escape war, natural disasters, and cultural and political oppression. Unfortunately, even today, the international community struggles to provide an adequate response to this vast population in need.
This Very Short Introduction covers a broad range of issues around the causes and impact of the contemporary refugee crisis for both receiving states and societies, for global order, and for refugees and other forced migrants themselves. Gil Loescher discusses the identity of refugees, asylum seekers, and internally displaced persons and how they differ from other forced migrants. He also investigates the long history of the refugee phenomenon and how refugees became a central concern of the international community during the twentieth and twenty first centuries, as well as considering the responses provided by governments and international aid organisations to refugee needs. Loescher concludes by focussing on the necessity of these bodies to understand the realities of the contemporary refugee situation in order to best respond to its current and future challenges.
Acknowledgements
List of illustrations
1:Refugees: a brief history
2:Who are refugees and how do they differ from other migrants?
3:How critical is today's refugee crisis?
4:Root causes of forced migration
5:Strengths and limitations of present legal, institutional, political and local responses to refugees
6:The global refugee situation today
7:Understanding current realities and present and future challenges
Further reading
Index
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ISBN : 9780198811787
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