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Governing Refugees: Justice, Order and Legal Pluralism

Governing Refugees: Justice, Order and Legal Pluralism

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Series: Law, Development and Globalization

General LawSocial Movements

ISBN10: 1138956317
ISBN13: 9781138956315
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Sep 4 2015
Pages: 220
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.47 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Governing Refugees examines the themes of community governance, order maintenance and legal pluralism in the context of refugee camps. Focusing specifically on the refugee camps along the Thai-Burma border, this book sheds light on the reality of life in a refugee camp, through exploring the historical evolution and practice of dispute resolution, and examining the ways in which this 'traditional' practice is altered by the influence of new norms encountered during encampment - particularly international human rights law and the law of the host state. Refugee camps are imbued in the public imagination with assumptions of anarchy, danger and refugee passivity. Governing Refugees marshalls empirical data and ethnographic detail to challenge such assumptions, arguing that refugee camps should be recognised as spaces where social capital can not only survive, but thrive.

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