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Forced Displacement

Why Rights Matter

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  • © 2008

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Editors:
  1. Katarzyna Grabska

    1. Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, UK

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  2. Lyla Mehta

    1. Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, UK

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About this book

Uprootedness, exile and forced displacement, be they due to conflict, persecution or so-called 'development', are conditions which characterise the lives of millions across the globe. This book analyses a range of displacement situations, including development 'oustees', refugees and internally displaced persons.

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. Introduction

    • Katarzyna Grabska, Lyla Mehta
    Pages 1-25

  3. Protection and Durable Solutions: Regimes for Development and Conflict-Induced Internally Displaced and Resettled Populations

    • Robert Muggah
    Pages 26-49

  4. Rights and Development-Induced Displacement: Risk Management or Social Protection?

    • Behrooz Morvaridi
    Pages 50-70

  5. Brothers or Poor Cousins? Rights, Policies and the Well-being of Refugees in Egypt

    • Katarzyna Grabska
    Pages 71-92

  6. Refugees or Foreigners? The Case of Palestinians in Lebanon*

    • Jaber Suleiman
    Pages 93-115

  7. Access to Economic and Social Rights in First Countries of Asylum and Repatriation: a Case Study of Eritrean Refugees in Sudan

    • Gaim Kibreab
    Pages 116-138

  8. Rights and Decisions to Return: Internally Displaced Persons in Post-war Sudan

    • Munzoul Assal
    Pages 139-158

  9. Rights, Needs and Responsibility: Challenges to Rights-Based Advocacy for Refugees’ Health and Education in Lebanon

    • Samira Trad, Michael Kagan
    Pages 159-177

  10. Indigenous Peoples, Displacement Through ‘Development’ and Rights Violations: the Case of the Orang Asli of Peninsular Malaysia

    • Carol Yong Ooi Lin
    Pages 178-200

  11. Why are Human Rights Violated with Impunity? Forced Displacement in India’s Narmada Valley

    • Lyla Mehta
    Pages 201-221

  12. Protests Against the UNHCR to Achieve Rights: Some Reflections

    • Barbara Harrell-Bond
    Pages 222-243

  13. Afterword: the Politics of Rights

    • Katarzyna Grabska, Lyla Mehta
    Pages 244-246

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 247-261
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Editors and Affiliations

  • Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, UK

    Katarzyna Grabska, Lyla Mehta

About the editors

KATARZYNA GRABSKA worked as a Projects Coordinator and Researcher at the Forced Migration and Refugee Studies program at the American University, Egypt. She is currently researching changes in gender relations as a result of forced migration, and the return of populations among southern Sudanese refugees, at the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, UK.
 
LYLA MEHTA is Research Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies,  University of Sussex, UK. She is author of 'The Politics and Poetics of Water' and editor of 'Displaced by Development'.

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