Transitional Justice and Forced Migration

Critical Perspectives from the Global South

Nergis Canefe

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2019
• Print ISBN:
  9781108422062
• eBook ISBN:
  9781108390156
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Human Rights
• Index: Politics & International Relations

This volume brings together critical legal scholarship and theories of forced migration that draw attention to the dual role of law as it pertains to transitional justice and mass violence resulting in forced population movements. Contributors to the volume analyze how forced migration in the Global South have impacted contemporary realities. While there has been considerable focus on refugees and asylum seekers from conflict zones, there is less attention paid to the far more numerous internally displaced peoples (IDPs), stateless people, warehoused refugees, non-status displaced and returnees in the Global South. In this volume, a multidisciplinary group of scholars question the reasons behind the restrictive choices that lock us into area studies modalities instead of genuine interdisciplinary analysis by linking the traditional subject matter of transitional justice with the realities of forced migration in the Global South.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-title page
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Dedication
• Contents
• List of Contributors
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• List of Abbreviations
• In Lieu of an Introduction: Orbis Tertius as Vantage Point
• Part I The Past as the Memory of the Future
• Part II Law, Justice, and Hope
• Part III Ethics of Witnessing
• Index