Survival Migration : Failed Governance and the Crisis of Displacement

Such threats as environmental change, food insecurity, and generalized violence force massive numbers of people to flee states that are unable or unwilling to ensure their basic rights, as do conditions in failed and fragile states that make possible human rights deprivations. Because these reasons...

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Main Author: Betts, Alexander (auth)
Format: eBook
Published: Ithaca, NY Cornell University Press 20130703
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