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  • From refugees to forced migration: The UNHCR and human security

    Author(s)
    Adelman, Howard
    Griffith University Author(s)
    Adelman, Howard
    Year published
    2001
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    Abstract
    Within UNHCR, there has been a shift in the emphasis on the meaning of protection. Protection of refugees is now primarily defined as security of refugees and refugee operations rather than in terms of the legal asylum process. The article examines the significance of UNHCR placing the refugee issue within both the larger context of forced migration as well as within the context of human security. The paper clarifies and documents a current and general focus of forced migration that includes the internally displaced as well as refugees and offers a framework for comprehending and dealing with the refugee problem that has ...
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    Within UNHCR, there has been a shift in the emphasis on the meaning of protection. Protection of refugees is now primarily defined as security of refugees and refugee operations rather than in terms of the legal asylum process. The article examines the significance of UNHCR placing the refugee issue within both the larger context of forced migration as well as within the context of human security. The paper clarifies and documents a current and general focus of forced migration that includes the internally displaced as well as refugees and offers a framework for comprehending and dealing with the refugee problem that has shifted focus to the security dimension.
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    Journal Title
    International Migration Review
    Volume
    35
    Issue
    1
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1747-7379.2001.tb00002.x
    Subject
    Economics
    Studies in Human Society
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/58441
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