Advancing Refugee Protection In South Africa

Author : Jeff Handmaker,Lee Anne de la Hunt,Jonathan Klaaren
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2008-03-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780857450272

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Advancing Refugee Protection in South Africa by Jeff Handmaker,Lee Anne de la Hunt,Jonathan Klaaren Pdf

Divided into three thematic parts to guide the reader, this important volume documents the development and implementation of refugee policy in South Africa over a 10-year period from 1996 until 2006. In doing so, it addresses issues of detention, gender, children and health as well as welfare policies for refugees. The contributions, all written by academics and practitioners of refugee protection, vividly illustrate the tangible shifts and concerns of a process that is not only aimed at establishing policies and legislation but also practices concerning refugees.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Human rights
ISBN : STANFORD:36105111030552

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Perspectives on Refugee Protection in South Africa by Anonim Pdf

Includes statistics.

Author : Jeff Handmaker,Lee Anne De la Hunt,Jonathan Klaaren
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Law
ISBN : 1845451090

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Advancing Refugee Protection in South Africa by Jeff Handmaker,Lee Anne De la Hunt,Jonathan Klaaren Pdf

Divided into three thematic parts to guide the reader, this important volume documents the development and implementation of refugee policy in South Africa over a 10-year period from 1996 until 2006. In doing so, it addresses issues of detention, gender, children and health as well as welfare policies for refugees. The contributions, all written by academics and practitioners of refugee protection, vividly illustrate the tangible shifts and concerns of a process that is not only aimed at establishing policies and legislation but also practices concerning refugees.

Author : Ebenezer Durojaye,Robert Doya Nanima,Abiola Idowu-Ojo,Gladys Mirugi-Mukundi
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2023-10-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783031165481

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Realising Socio-Economic Rights of Refugees and Asylum Seekers in Africa by Ebenezer Durojaye,Robert Doya Nanima,Abiola Idowu-Ojo,Gladys Mirugi-Mukundi Pdf

This book examines the socio-economic rights challenges of refugees and asylum seekers in Africa. It seeks to fill a major gap in the literature by providing a nuanced discussion of the barriers to the realisation of the socio-economic rights of refugees and asylum seekers in Africa. It equally aims to provide some concrete recommendations to African governments towards the realisation of the socio-economic rights of refugees and asylum seekers. With the aid of lessons from selected African countries, this book highlights the gaps, challenges and good practices regarding the realisation of the socio-economic rights of refugees and asylum seekers in the region. The book will be useful to researchers, students, academicians, policymakers, and international organisations or institutions interested in advancing the rights of refugees and asylum seekers.

Author : Fatima Khan (Lawyer),Tal Schreier
Publisher : Juta and Company Ltd
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Asylum, Right of
ISBN : 1485101239

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Refugee Law in South Africa by Fatima Khan (Lawyer),Tal Schreier Pdf

Author : Jason Hart
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1845455282

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Years of Conflict by Jason Hart Pdf

Recent years have witnessed a significant growth of interest in the consequences of political violence and displacement for the young. However, when speaking of "children" commentators have often taken the situation of those in early and middle childhood as representative of all young people under eighteen years of age. As a consequence, the specific situation of adolescents negotiating the processes of transition towards social adulthood amidst conditions of violence and displacement is commonly overlooked. Years of Conflict provides a much-needed corrective. Drawing upon perspectives from anthropology, psychology, and media studies as well as the insights of those involved in programmatic interventions, it describes and analyses the experiences of older children facing the challenges of daily life in settings of conflict, post-conflict and refuge. Several authors also reflect upon methodological issues in pursuing research with young people in such settings. The accounts span the globe, taking in Liberia, Afghanistan, South Africa, Peru, Jordan, UK/Western Europe, Eastern Africa, Iran, USA, and Colombia. This book will be invaluable to those seeking a fuller understanding of conflict and displacement and its effects upon adolescents. It will also be welcomed by practitioners concerned to develop more effective ways of providing support to this group.

Author : Marina Sharpe
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2018-07-19
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780192560681

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The Regional Law of Refugee Protection in Africa by Marina Sharpe Pdf

This book analyses the legal framework for refugee protection in Africa, including both refugee and human rights law as well as treaty and institutional elements. The regime is addressed in two parts. Part One analyses the relevant treaties: the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees, the 1969 Organization of African Unity Convention Governing the Specific Aspects of Refugee Problems in Africa and the 1981 African Charter on Human and Peoples Rights. The latter two regional instruments are examined in depth. This includes the first fulsome account of the African Refugee Conventions drafting, an interpretation of its unique refugee definition and original analysis of the relationships between the three treaties. Significant attention is devoted to the systemic relationship between the international and the regional refugee treaties and to the discrete relationships of conflict and complementary relationships between the two refugee instruments, as well as to the relationships between the African Refugee Convention and African Charter. Part Two focuses on the institutional architecture supporting the treaty framework. The Organization of African Unity is addressed in a historical sense, and the contemporary roles of the African Union, the African Commission on Human and Peoples Rights and the current and contemplated African human rights courts are examined. This book is the first devoted to the legal framework for refugee protection in Africa.

Author : Winnie Lem,Pauline Gardiner Barber
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Culture and globalization
ISBN : 1845456866

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Class, Contention, and a World in Motion by Winnie Lem,Pauline Gardiner Barber Pdf

"The authors challenge currently dominant approaches to migration, and offer important ways to move between the individual experience and the structure of the world system."---Alan Smart, University of Calgary --

Author : Maja Korac
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2009-10-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781845459567

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Remaking Home by Maja Korac Pdf

Rather than emphasising boundaries and territories by examining the ‘integration’ and ‘acculturation’ of the immigrant or the refugee, this book offers insights into the ideas and practices of individuals settling into new societies and cultures. It analyses their ideas of connecting and belonging; their accounts of the past, the present and the future; the interaction and networks of relations; practical strategies; and the different meanings of ‘home’ and belonging that are constructed in new sociocultural settings. The author uses empirical research to explore the experiences of refugees from the successor states of Yugoslavia, who are struggling to make a home for themselves in Amsterdam and Rome. By explaining how real people navigate through the difficulties of their displacement as well as the numerous scenarios and barriers to their emplacement, the author sheds new light on our understanding of what it is like to be a refugee.

Author : Naohiko Omata
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2017-06-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781785335655

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The Myth of Self-Reliance by Naohiko Omata Pdf

For many refugees, economic survival in refugee camps is extraordinarily difficult. Drawing on both qualitative and quantitative research , this volume challenges the reputation of a ‘self-reliant’ model given to Buduburam refugee camp in Ghana and sheds light on considerable economic inequality between refugee households.By following the same refugee households over several years, The Myth of Self-Reliance also provides valuable insights into refugees’ experiences of repatriation to Liberia after protracted exile and their responses to the ending of refugee status for remaining refugees in Ghana.

Author : Kate Jastram,Marilyn Achiron
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Asylum, Right of
ISBN : STANFORD:36105062989574

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Refugee Protection by Kate Jastram,Marilyn Achiron Pdf

2. The role of UNHCR

Author : Jasna Čapo Zmegač
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2007-08-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780857453181

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Strangers Either Way by Jasna Čapo Zmegač Pdf

Croatia gained the world's attention during the break-up of Yugoslavia in the early 1990s. In this context its image has been overshadowed by visions of ethnic conflict and cleansing, war crimes, virulent nationalism, and occasionally even emergent regionalism. Instead of the norm, this book offers a diverse insight into Croatia in the 1990s by dealing with one of the consequences of the war: the more or less forcible migration of Croats from Serbia and their settlement in Croatia, their "ethnic homeland." This important study shows that at a time in which Croatia was perceived as a homogenized nation-in-the-making, there were tensions and ruptures within Croatian society caused by newly arrived refugees and displaced persons from Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina. Refugees who, in spite of their common ethnicity with the homeland population, were treated as foreigners; indeed, as unwanted aliens.

Author : Pirkko Kourula
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2023-12-11
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789004636514

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Broadening the Edges by Pirkko Kourula Pdf

This ground-breaking volume brings the refugee issue out of the narrow confines of refugee law into the centre of international law and international relations. It reviews the concept of the refugee and the international protection of refugees from the unconventional angle of the prospects and limitations of multilateralism in the post Cold War era. This approach - taking conflict prevention and resolution as its point of departure - ensures that Broadening the Edges: Refugee Definition and International Protection Revisited is not only novel, but comprehensive and practical as well. It is comprehensive because it offers a review of state practice within the United Nations and regional contexts, as well as a review of the practice of the United Nations inter-agency system. It is practical because it is based on the personal experience of its author, not on theoretical models. The broadening concept of security, affecting the attitudes of states towards refugees, is the underlying theme of the book. As a result, the contemporary preoccupation with how best to provide international protection to all those in need of it is reviewed from a number of relevant perspectives - including that of peacekeeping, sanctions, and coordination and competence within the United Nations. Pirkko Kourula worked for some twelve years in UNHCR in Asia, Europe and the USA, and was Deputy Director of UNHCR Liaison Office at United Nations Headquarters in New York from 1991 to 1996. She was also Director for Humanitarian Assistance and Food Aid at FINNIDA, the Finnish International Development Agency, Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Author : Shuvro Prosun Sarker
Publisher : Springer
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2017-08-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789811048074

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Refugee Law in India by Shuvro Prosun Sarker Pdf

This book considers refugee protection mandates and addresses how legal scholarship can articulate a comprehensive and humane response to the contemporary refugee problem. Analyzing philosophical discourses and India’s policies and practices on refugee protection, including judgments of Indian Courts in refugee related cases, it examines how organizational efforts can make these policies and practices equal for every refugee in India. It also surveys prevailing discriminative protection standards and entitlements developed through Conventions, Declaration and Directives, and compares and contrasts national refugee legislations in South Africa, Brazil and Canada. A key read for scholars and practitioners interested in the legal and policy implications of refugee protection, this text identifies various practices of nation-States from across the North/South divide and provides key insights into the evolving nature of protection agendas.

Author : Francis Musoni
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2020-04-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253047168

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Border Jumping and Migration Control in Southern Africa by Francis Musoni Pdf

With the end of apartheid rule in South Africa and the ongoing economic crisis in Zimbabwe, the border between these Southern African countries has become one of the busiest inland ports of entry in the world. As border crossers wait for clearance, crime, violence, and illegal entries have become rampant. Francis Musoni observes that border jumping has become a way of life for many of those who live on both sides of the Limpopo River and he explores the reasons for this, including searches for better paying jobs and access to food and clothing at affordable prices. Musoni sets these actions into a framework of illegality. He considers how countries have failed to secure their borders, why passports are denied to travelers, and how border jumping has become a phenomenon with a long history, especially in Africa. Musoni emphasizes cross-border travelers' active participation in the making of this history and how clandestine mobility has presented opportunity and creative possibilities for those who are willing to take the risk.