Rethinking Internal Displacement

Geo-political Games, Fragile States and the Relief Industry

Frederick Laker

• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Year: 2021
• ISBN:
  9781800731653
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Human Rights
• Index: Politics & International Relations

Internal displacement has become one of the most pressing geo-political concerns of the twenty-first century. There are currently over 45 million internally displaced people worldwide due to conflict, state collapse and natural disaster in such high profile cases as Syria, Yemen and Iraq. To tackle such vast human suffering, in the last twenty years a global United Nations regime has emerged that seeks to replicate the long-established order of refugee protection by applying international law and humanitarian assistance to citizens within their own borders. This book looks at the origins, structure and impact of this new UN regime and whether it is fit for purpose.

Table of contents

• Rethinking Internal Displacement
• Contents
• Illustrations, Figures, Maps and Tables
• Introduction
• Part I. The History of the IDP Regime
• Chapter 1. The Origins of the Internal Displacement Regime (1930–1950)
• Chapter 2. The Emergence of the Internal Displacement Crisis (1980–2010)
• Chapter 3. The Evolution of IDP Truths
• Chapter 4. The Construction of IDP Norms
• Part II. The Structure of the IDP Regime
• Chapter 5. The Nature, Logic and Effects of the IDP Regime
• Part III. The Impact of the IDP Regime
• Chapter 6. Uganda and the IDP Regime
• Chapter 7. The IDP Regime and Camp as Heterotopia
• Chapter 8. The IDP Regime
• Chapter 9. The IDP Regime in Overlapping Vicious Cycles
• Conclusion
• Bibliography
• Index