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Title
International And National Responses To The Challenges Of Mass Forced Displacement |
Full text
http://ir.iss.nl/view.php?pid=iss:157 |
Author(s)
Guy S. Goodwin-Gill |
Contributor(s)
Jeff Handmaker; Lee Anne de la Hunt; Jonathan Klaaren |
Abstract
People have been migrating in large numbers since time immemorial, for reasons of personal and family advancement, as elements in state plans to expand and develop and to avoid any number of disasters, natural and man-made. South Africa has had the full spectrum of the migration and displacement experience, moving from refugee-source to refugee-receiving country, and meeting all the complexity of mixed flows on the way. While refugee movements and situations have long attracted attention, at least in certain of their phases, migration in its 'ordinary' sense is only now beginning to feature on the international agenda, even if the principal focus is on the issues of concern to the developed world, such as irregular and clandestine migration and trafficking in people. Despite the international dimension, an international migration regime is still lacking. There is no multilateral convention and no truly international organisation with a comprehensive mandate, while state practice varies and a burgeoning individual rights dimension confronts traditional sovereign powers, actual or perceived, with distinctly uneven results. |
Subject(s)
04 Culture, Society (all Sociology), History; 20 Population, Migration |
Publisher
Array |
Type of publication
Book Chapter |
Format
http://ir.iss.nl/eserv.php?pid=iss:157&dsID=Handmaker_02Goodwin-Gill.pdf |
Repository
The Hague - Institute of social Studies (ISS)
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