Survival Migration
Failed Governance and the Crisis of Displacement
Failed Governance and the Crisis of Displacement
Such threats as environmental change, food insecurity, and generalized violence force massive numbers of people to flee states that are unable or unwilling to ensure their basic rights, as do conditions in failed and fragile states that make possible human rights deprivations. Because these reasons do not meet the legal understanding of persecution, the victims of these circumstances are not usually recognized as "refugees," preventing current institutions from ensuring their protection. In this book, Alexander Betts develops the concept of "survival migration" to highlight the crisis in which these people find themselves.
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In this book, Alexander Betts makes an objective investigation about the refugee's displacements in Africa. Inside this considerable category, there is another one called “ survival migrants”, in which he will focus his attention.
I really enjoy how supported are the affirmations and the growth of the main and minor details of the research.
This piece works as an inspiration for future researchers that center themselves in migration and refugee topics. One should include “new” concepts as survival migration, taking into account the framework developed by Betts in this book.
“...there is international consensus around the imperative to protect refugees fleeing persecution by states. (...) there is far less consensus on whether and how to protect people fleeing fundamental human rights deprivations resulting from the inability or unwillingness of states to ensure those rights”. (Pg. 196)
