Reconceiving International Refugee Law.

• Superior document: Nijhoff Law Specials Series ; v.30
• Author: Hathaway, James C.
• Place / Publishing House: Boston : : BRILL,, 1997.; ©1997.
• Year of Publication: 1997
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Nijhoff Law Specials Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (204 pages)

Table of Contents

• Intro
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Contributors
• Preface: Can International Refugee Law be Made Relevant Again?
• 1. The Demise of the Interest-Convergence
• 2. The Politics of Non-Entrée
• 3. The "Right to Remain"
• 4. Relegation of Burdens to the South
• 5. Principles for a New Paradigm of Refugee Protection
• 6. Toward the Reformulation of International Refugee Law
• I. Temporary Protection
• 1. Why Temporary Protection Should be Considered
• 2. How to Render Temporary Protection Humane
• 2.1 Responding to the Vulnerabilities of Refugees
• 2.2 The Refugee Family
• 2.3 Social Organization
• 2.4 Interaction with the Local Community
• 3. How Temporary Protection Should be Structured
• 3.1 Designating the State of Temporary Protection
• 3.2 The Duration of Temporary Protection
• 4. How Temporary Protection Should be Brought to an End
• Insights from Refugee Experience: A Background Paper on Temporary Protection
• 1. Becoming a Refugee: Desocialization and Dematuration Issues
• 2. Staff-Inmate Relations: Interaction, Communication and Information Problems
• 3. Reactions, Adaptations, and Adjustments
• 4. Aspects of Temporariness: Attitudes Towards Time and Space
• 5. Other Aspects of Camp Experience: Grief and Anxiety
• 6. Interim Conclusions and Qualifications
• Issues for Discussion
• II. Repatriation Aid and Development Assistance
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Assessing the Contemporary Status of International Efforts Concerning Refugee/Returnee Aid and Development
• 2.1 Evolution of Solutions to the Refugee Problem
• 2.2 The Need for Change
• 2.3 Orthodoxy Questioned
• 2.4 The Myth of Inter-Agency Cooperation
• 2.5 In Search of the Locus of the Gap
• 2.6 The Weaknesses of the "Innovative Models"
• 2.7 Inclusion of Areas of Return in National Plans of Development.
• 3. Temporary Protection and its Relation to Repatriation Aid and Development
• 3.1 Basic Principles
• 3.2 Local Development Institutional Structures in Temporary Protection
• 3.3 RDCs and Preparation for Repatriation
• 4. Returnee Aid and Development
• 4.1 Initial Considerations
• 4.2 Voluntary Repatriation as the Optimal Solution
• 4.3 Returnee Aid and Development
• 4.4 Country of Origin Repatriation Planning
• 4.5 Aid Strategy Upon Restoration of Peace
• 4.6 Development Councils
• 5. Conclusions
• Postscript: Reply to Critiques
• Issues for Discussion
• III. Responsibility Sharing
• 1. Introduction
• 1.1 The International Refugee Regime
• 2. Cases from Half a Century (1945-1995)
• 2.1 European Refugees
• 2.2 African Refugees
• 2.3 Latin American Refugees
• 2.4 Asian Refugees
• 2.4.1 South Asia
• 2.4.2 Southeast Asia
• 3. Analysis of Concepts and Practice
• 3.1 Policy Issues of Reform
• 3.2 Theoretical Issues of Reform
• Issues for Discussion
• IV. Fiscal Burden Sharing
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Refugees and Security
• 3. Three Conceptions of Burden Sharing
• 4. Conclusions
• Table 1: Financial Contributions from Western Countries to the UNHCR
• Issues for Discussion
• Afterword: Assessing the Prospects for Reform of International Refugee Law
• 1. Temporary Protection
• 2. Repatriation Aid and Development Assistance
• 3. Responsibility Sharing
• 4. Fiscal Burden Sharing
• 5. Conclusions
• Bibliography.