The refugee in international society : between sovereigns

Cover......Page 1
Half-title......Page 3
Series-title......Page 4
Title......Page 5
Copyright......Page 6
Dedication......Page 7
Contents......Page 9
1 The refugee ‘problem’......Page 13
PART I The refugee: a conceptual analysis......Page 33
2 Who is (not) a refugee?......Page 35
Conceptual confusion......Page 36
Limitations of current approaches......Page 41
Consequences of the refugee label......Page 46
Questions of gender......Page 51
A new definition......Page 53
Conclusions......Page 57
3 The refugee and the international states system......Page 59
Sovereignty and the state......Page 60
Sovereignty and the refugee......Page 63
The emerging \'other’......Page 68
The refugee as a modern phenomenon......Page 74
Conclusions......Page 80
4 Sovereign rights, human rights and security......Page 82
Shifting conceptions of rights......Page 83
Solidarism within pluralism......Page 88
Refugee protection as a human rights issue......Page 96
The refugee regime and security......Page 101
Conclusions......Page 107
PART II The refugee: an historical analysis......Page 109
5 The inter-war perspective......Page 111
Positive sovereignty and the refugee......Page 112
Intergovernmental regimentation......Page 120
Mutually constituted identities......Page 125
Inter-war \'solutions’......Page 132
Conclusions......Page 139
Continuities in the refugee regime......Page 140
Negative sovereignty and Cold War refugees......Page 148
The Berlin Wall as a border......Page 155
Non-European \'refugees’......Page 160
A new politics of identity......Page 167
Conclusions......Page 172
PART III The refugee: a contemporary analysis......Page 175
7 The external dimension of EU refugee policy......Page 177
The refugee and contemporary international society......Page 178
EU refugee policy......Page 183
Regional Protection Programmes......Page 190
Normative considerations of regional protection......Page 194
Conclusions......Page 202
The effects of the security agenda......Page 204
Constructing sovereignty as responsibility......Page 208
Rethinking responses towards the refugee......Page 214
The importance of the conceptual and historical analysis......Page 221
League of Nations......Page 228
UNHCR......Page 229
Secondary sources......Page 230
Index......Page 245
CAMBRIDGE STUDIES IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS......Page 248