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Internal Displacement in South Asia
The Relevance of the UN's Guiding Principles
First Edition
Edited by:
- Paula Banerjee - Vice-Chancellor, The Sanskrit College and University
- Sabyasachi Basu Ray Chaudhury - Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata and Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group
- Samir Kumar Das - Vice-Chancellor, University of North Bengal
February 2009 | 370 pages | SAGE Publications Pvt. Ltd
This book deals with the situation of internally displaced people - those who have been forcibly displaced by natural disasters or development projects.
Each chapter is a case study authored by specialists from seven countries - India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Mayanmar and Afghanistan. The latter two countries have been included for their shared ethnic continuities with people of the neighbouring countries. The authors provide recommendations on how to minimize the insecurity of the displaced, as well as suggesting early warning systems as preventive measures to forestall displacement at the outset.
Roberta Cohen and Francis Deng
Foreword
Paula Banerjee, Sabyasachi Basu Ray Chaudhury and Samir Kumar Das
Introduction
Mossarat Qadeem
Afghanistan
| The Long Way Home |
Atta ur Rehman Sheikh
Pakistan
| Development and Disaster |
Samir Kumar Das
India
| Homelessness at Home |
Subir Bhaumik
India's Northeast
| Nobody's People in No Man's Land |
Meghna Guhathakurta and Suraiya Begum
Bangladesh
| Displaced and Dispossessed |
Sabyasachi Basu Ray Chaudhury
Burma
| Escape To Ordeal |
Manesh Shreshtha and Bishnu Adhikari
Nepal
| A Problem Unprepared For |
Joe William
Sri Lanka
| A Profile of Vulnerability |
Paula Banerjee
Resisting Erasure
| Women IDPs in South Asia |
David Fisher
Epilogue
| International Law on the Internally Displaced Persons |
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