Internal displacement in South Asia : the relevance of the UN's guiding principles / edited by Paula Banerjee. Sabyasachi Basu Ray Chaudhury, Samir Kumar Das. - Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, 2005. - 370 p. ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreword / Roberta Cohen and Francis Deng -- Introduction / Paula Banerjee, Sabyasachi Basu Ray Chaudhury and Samir Kumar Das -- 1. Afghanistan : the long way home / Mossarat Qadeem -- 2. Pakistan : development and disaster / Atta ur Rehman Sheikh -- 3. India : homelessness at home / Samir Kumar Das -- 4. India's northeast : nobody's people in no-man's-land / Subir Bhaumik -- 5. Bangladesh : displaced and dispossessed / Meghna Guhathakurta and Suraiya Begum -- 6. Burma : escape to ordeal / Sabyasachi Basu Ray Chaudhury -- 7. Nepal : a problem unprepared for / Manesh Sreshtha and Bishnu Adhikari -- 8. Sri Lanka : a profile of vulnerability / Joe William -- 9. Resisting erasure : women IDPs in South Asia / Paula Banerjee -- Epilogue : international law on the internally displaced persons / David Fisher -- App. The UN guiding principles on the internally displaced persons.

"This volume is a sequel to the earlier volume published by Sage, Refugees and the State. While that volume deals with refugee flows, this volume presents a comprehensive analysis of the phenomenon of internal displacement in the light of the United Nations Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement. It does this through detailed case studies of seven countries - India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Burma and Afghanistan." "The first of its kind and with its strongly analytical and legal perspective covering the entire South Asian region, this incisive and timely compendium will be of great interest to policy makers, human rights activists, jurists, and scholars and students of politics, international relations, migration, sociology, social anthropology, law and history."--BOOK JACKET.

0761933131 (hard back) 0761933298 (paper back)

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Office of the United Nations High Commissioner For Refugees.


Refugees--South Asia.
Forced migration--South Asia.
Human rights--South Asia.

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