Refugee solutions, or solutions to refugeehood?(Essay)

From: Refuge | Date: September 22, 2007| Author: Hathaway, James C. | Copyright information

Writing in the International Journal of Law and Psychiatry, Fleur Johns recently indicted international refugee law--the ostensible source of refugee rights and solutions--as being instead "a producer of ... pathology." She writes: 

 
   The Refugee Convention classifies refugees as "problem[s]" and 
   "cause [s] of tension" and works towards resolving these 
   "problem[s]" and "tension[s].".. Yet where ... lies the "problem" to 
   be cured by recourse to international re...

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