Internal Displacement in South Asia.(Book review)

From: Pacific Affairs | Date: March 22, 2007| Author: | Copyright information

INTERNAL DISPLACEMENT IN SOUTH ASIA. Edited by Paula Banerjee, Sabyasachi Basu Ray Chaudhury and Samir Kumar Das. New Delhi (India), Thousand Oaks (CA), London: SAGE Publications, 2005. 370 pp. (Tables.) US$29.95, paper. ISBN 0-7619-3329-8.

This book is a welcome addition to the relatively limited current international literature available on internally displaced people (IDPs). The United Nations High Commission on Refugees (UNHCR) has in recent years been obliged to recognize the vast numbers of people who have been displaced from their homes, yet who do not constitute ...

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