Description
Book Synopsis 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.
Trade Review “Crucially, this manuscript places the problems of internal displacement and IDP protection in their historical, political, economic, social, cultural, and intellectual contexts.” • Zachary A. Lomo, University of British Columbia
Table of Contents List of 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): The Genesis of Refugee Politics
Chapter 2. The Emergence of the Internal Displacement Crisis (1980–2010): The Role of UNHCR
Chapter 3. The Evolution of IDP Truths: (Re)Creating Knowledge, Numbers, Labels and Sovereignty
Chapter 4. The Construction of IDP Norms: Duplicating and Diluting the 1951 Refugee Convention
Part II: The Structure of the IDP Regime
Chapter 5. The Nature, Logic and Effects of the IDP Regime: Discursive Reproductions of Power, Privilege and Paternalism
Part III: The Impact of the IDP Regime
Chapter 6. Uganda and the IDP Regime: The Political Economy of War and Displacement
Chapter 7. The IDP Regime and Camp as Heterotopia: Space, Discourse and Power
Chapter 8. The IDP Regime: Clustering Power and Converging Interests in IDP Camps
Chapter 9. The IDP Regime in Overlapping Vicious Cycles: Hiding the Suffering and Death of People in Plain View
Conclusion: Rethinking Internal Displacement
Bibliography
Index
