Humanitarianism and Security. Rethinking Internal Displacement : : Geo-political Games, Fragile States and the Relief Industry / / Frederick Laker.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2021
• VerfasserIn: Laker, Frederick,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Humanitarianism and Security ; 1
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (298 p.)

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

Frontmatter -- 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 Eff ects 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 Suff ering and Death in Plain View -- Conclusion. Rethinking Internal Displacement -- Bibliography -- Index