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Driven from home : protecting the rights of forced migrants
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Driven from home : protecting the rights of forced migrants

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This book is the second phase of an ongoing project on the human rights of refugees and forcibly displaced persons conducted by the Center for Human Rights and International Justice at Boston College ... of which a second conference is the outcome.

Contents

Introduction: human rights and new challenges of protecting forced migrants / David Hollenbach
New realities of protection in a human rights framework
Rethinking the international refugee regime in light of human rights and the global common good / Susan F. Martin
Normative responses : religion, human rights, gender and culture
Justice for the displaced : the challenge of a Christian understanding / Agbonkhianmeghe E. Orobator
Human rights as a framework for advocacy on behalf of the displaced : the approach of the Catholic Church / Silvano Tomasi
No easy road to freedom : engendering and enculturating forced migration / M. Brinton Lykes
Protecting rights at the border : denial of asylum and systemic responses
Human rights as a challenge to national policies that exclude refugees : two case studies from Southeast Asia / Frank Brennan
Loving humanity while accepting people : a critique and a cautious affirmation of the "political" in U.S. asylum and refugee law / Daniel Kanstroom
Closed borders, human rights, and democratic legitimation / Arash Abizadeh
Protection in the face of conflict and war
The experience of displacement by conflict : the plight of Iraqi refugees / Maryanne Loughry
The ethics and policy of war in light of displacement / J. Bryan Hehir
Reinserting never into never again : political innovations and the responsibility to protect / Thomas G. Weiss
Protection in response to economic need and environmental crises
Economic and environmental displacement : implications for durable solutions / Mary M. Delorey
Refugees or economic migrants : Catholic thought on the moral roots of the distinction / Christopher Llanos.

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