Exodus within Borders: An Introduction to the Crisis of Internal Displacement

by David A. Korn

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This book aims to make available to the lay public a better understanding of one of the great tragedies of our times: the global crisis of internal displacement. As it draws to its close, the millennium finds some 25 million persons worldwide forcibly displaced from their homes by civil wars, internal strife, or gross violations of human rights--but still in their own countries. Were they to cross a border, many would have claim to protection...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815749546
• ISBN13: 9780815749547
• Release Date: February 1999
• Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.8" x 9.6"