Refugee Policy is a Realist’s Nightmare: The Case of Southeast Asia
Although Southeast Asia has experienced one of history’s most complex and massive displacement of populations dur-ing the Indo-China crisis, it remains one of the least ad-vanced regions in terms of refugee law and practice. This paper explains the region's compassion fatigue towards refugees. States’ responses to refugee protection are limited by a prevailing sense of sovereign rights and communalism in the region, and the primordial need to safeguard national interest and state security. Other factors include lessons from the Indo-Chinese exodus, the underdevelopment of some economies, and a general poor record of human rights in the region.
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2006
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Authors: | LEE, Chen Chen |
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Migration Letters. - Transnational Press London, UK, ISSN 1741-8992. - Vol. 3.2006, 2, p. 137-149
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Transnational Press London, UK |
Subject: | Refugees | Southeast Asia | Realism | State security |
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