Protection by Persuasion: International Cooperation in the Refugee Regime

by Alexander Betts

Book Overview

States located near crisis zones are most likely to see an influx of people fleeing from manmade disasters; African states, for instance, are forced to accommodate and adjust to refugees more often than do European states far away from sites of upheaval. Geography dictates that states least able to pay the costs associated with refugees are those most likely to have them cross their borders. Therefore, refugee protection has historically been characterized...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801448247
• ISBN13: 9780801448249
• Release Date: October 2009
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher