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Examining The Intersection Of Refugee Policies And Contemporary Protracted Displacement, Christopher M. Owens
Examining The Intersection Of Refugee Policies And Contemporary Protracted Displacement, Christopher M. Owens
International Development, Community and Environment (IDCE)
Article 33 of the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees states that host nations shall not expel or return a refugee to their home nation ‘where his life or freedom would be threatened.’ However, as demonstrated in three contemporary case studies in protracted displacement the interests of the sovereign state drive nations to craft strategies to limit cross-border refugee mobility. The refoulement of refugees escaping drug cartel violence throughout the Americas, internally displaced Haitians, and Syrian refugees in Jordan are all ‘managed’ by one of two methods. First, some destination nations either strategically blur refugees into other mobility …