Internal Displacement and Conflict

The Kashmiri Pandits in Comparative Perspective

Sudha Rajput

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2019
• ISBN:
  9780429764622
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Peace & Global Development
• Index: Politics & International Relations

Grounded in multidisciplinary research, this book presents a methodical understanding of those displaced within their national borders, the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs).

The IDP phenomenon remains less understood than that of refugees due to the "internal" nature of the crisis, linked to a nation's sovereignty, which assigns the responsibility for care to the national actors as opposed to an international body. However, the IDP phenomenon poses an international humanitarian challenge, with upwards of 40 million people currently in internal displacement across the globe. This book helps answer the most perplexing questions surrounding conflict-induced protracted displacements: namely, how do positions embraced by key actors inform/influence IDP policies, and why, despite the promise of robust return packages, do families remain reluctant to return to home communities and equally reluctant to embrace new host communities? Capitalizing on the diagnostic tool kit known as Dugan's Nested Model, uniquely adapted to the Kashmiri Pandit displacement, this book also analyzes issues of the similarly displaced communities of Nagorno-Karabakh, Abkhazia and South Ossetia, Kosovo, and Darfur regions.

This book will be of much interest to students of peace and conflict studies, humanitarianism, Asian politics, and International Law in general.

Annex 1
Fieldwork log

The displacement of the Kashmiri Pandits: dynamics of policies and perspectives of policymakers, host communities and the Internally Displaced Persons

Doctoral dissertation, George Mason University, USA

Fieldwork Log

July–August 2011

S. Rajput

Annex 2
Kashmiri Pandit families assess ‘migrant’ policies

The displacement of the Kashmiri Pandits: Dynamics of policies and perspectives of policymakers, host communities and the Internally Displaced Persons

Doctoral dissertation, George Mason University, USA

July – August 2011

S. Rajput

Index

Abkhazia and South Ossetia 89, 141, 144, 146–7; displaced from 101–10

acculturation 31

actors of displacement 9; international 8, 11–2, 15, 17, 27, 82, 109, 120, 134, 148–50; absence of 31–2; national 3, 10, 13, 31, 33, 80, 104

adjustment 34, 104, 108, 113–5, 118–9, 125; adjustment challenge 14, 33, 51, 54, 69, 90, 93–4, 98, 125; Kashmiri challenge 37–40

advocacy, see also Annex 2 8, 54, 79–8, 87, 143

All India Kashmiri Samaj (AIKS), see also Annex 1, 2 54

Allport, G. 49, 149

Armenia 91, 96

assimilation 31, 114

autonomous 21, 101, 113, 117, 123, 131

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Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication Page
• Table of Contents
• Foreword
• Acknowledgments
• List of abbreviations
• Section I Global phenomenon of internal displacement, Kashmiri Pandits, research challenges, and family legacies
• Section II Kashmiri Pandit challenges and the dilemma of return
• Section III Policies, assessment, positions, and complexity of policymaking
• Section IV Understanding Kashmiri Pandit displacement through a comparative lens: journeying into Azerbaijan, Georgia, Serbia, and Sudan
• Section V Findings, best practices, and moving forward
• Annex 1: Fieldwork log
• Annex 2: Kashmiri Pandit Families Assess ‘Migrant’ Policies
• Index