Internal Displacement: Conceptualization and its Consequences

by Thomas G. Weiss and David A. Korn

This new volume traces the normative, legal, institutional, and political responses to the challenges of assisting and protecting internally displaced persons (IDPs).

The crisis of IDPs was first confronted in the 1980s, and the problems of those suffering from this type of forced migration has grown continually since then. Drawing on official and confidential documents as well as interviews with leading personalities, Internal Displacement...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415770793
• ISBN13: 9780415770798
• Release Date: June 2006
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 190 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"