1 The early years = 13
1.1 High Commissioners Nansen &McDonald = 15
1.2 United Nations assistance to Palestinian refugees = 20
1.3 The 1951 UN Refugee Convention = 23
1.4 Germany ’s refugee compensation scheme = 28
1.5 Chinese refugees in Hong Kong = 33
2 Decolonisation in Africa = 37
2.1 Flight from Rhodesia,return to Zimbabwe = 45
2.2 The 1967 Protocol to the 1951 UN Refugee Convention = 53
2.3 The 1967 Protocol to the 1951 UN Refugee Convention = 55
3 Rupture in South Asia = 59
3.1 The Tibetan refugee community in India = 63
3.2 The expulsion of South sians from Uganda = 69
3.3 The plight of the Rohingyas = 75
4 Flight from Indochina = 79
4.1 The state of the world's refugees = 84
4.2 The state of the world's refugees = 87
4.3 Vietnamese refugees in the United States = 90
4.4 Indochina ’s unaccompanied minors = 94
5 Proxy wars in Africa, Asia and Central America = 105
5.1 Refugee camps and settlements = 108
5.2 Mozambican refugees in Malawi = 112
5.3 The 1984 Cartagena Declaration = 123
5.4 Chile under General Pinochet = 126
6 Repatriation and peacebuilding in the early 1990s = 133
6.1 Chile under General Pinochet = 138
6.2 Linking relief and development = 142
6.3 Human rights and refugees = 150
7 Asylum in the industrialized world = 155
7.1 European Union asylum policy = 159
7.2 Non-state agents of persecution = 163
7.3 Funding trends = 166
7.4 Haitian asylum seekers = 176
8 Displacement in the former Soviet region = 185
8.1 Statelessness and disputed citizenship = 189
8.2 Non-governmental organizations = 194
8.3 Armed attacks on humanitarian personnel = 206
9 War and humanitarian action : Iraq and the Balkans = 211
9.1 Internally displaced persons = 214
9.2 East Timor:the cost f independence = 236
9.3 International criminal justice = 240
10 The Rwandan genocide and its aftermath = 245
10.1 The problem of militarized refugee camps = 248
10.2 Refugees and the AIDS pandemic = 253
10.3 Somalia:from exodus to diaspora = 256
10.4 War and displacement in West Africa = 260
10.5 Western Sahara:refugees in the desert = 266
11 The changing dynamics of displacement = 275
Annexes = 301
Further reading = 328
1.1 High Commissioners Nansen &McDonald = 15
1.2 United Nations assistance to Palestinian refugees = 20
1.3 The 1951 UN Refugee Convention = 23
1.4 Germany ’s refugee compensation scheme = 28
1.5 Chinese refugees in Hong Kong = 33
2 Decolonisation in Africa = 37
2.1 Flight from Rhodesia,return to Zimbabwe = 45
2.2 The 1967 Protocol to the 1951 UN Refugee Convention = 53
2.3 The 1967 Protocol to the 1951 UN Refugee Convention = 55
3 Rupture in South Asia = 59
3.1 The Tibetan refugee community in India = 63
3.2 The expulsion of South sians from Uganda = 69
3.3 The plight of the Rohingyas = 75
4 Flight from Indochina = 79
4.1 The state of the world's refugees = 84
4.2 The state of the world's refugees = 87
4.3 Vietnamese refugees in the United States = 90
4.4 Indochina ’s unaccompanied minors = 94
5 Proxy wars in Africa, Asia and Central America = 105
5.1 Refugee camps and settlements = 108
5.2 Mozambican refugees in Malawi = 112
5.3 The 1984 Cartagena Declaration = 123
5.4 Chile under General Pinochet = 126
6 Repatriation and peacebuilding in the early 1990s = 133
6.1 Chile under General Pinochet = 138
6.2 Linking relief and development = 142
6.3 Human rights and refugees = 150
7 Asylum in the industrialized world = 155
7.1 European Union asylum policy = 159
7.2 Non-state agents of persecution = 163
7.3 Funding trends = 166
7.4 Haitian asylum seekers = 176
8 Displacement in the former Soviet region = 185
8.1 Statelessness and disputed citizenship = 189
8.2 Non-governmental organizations = 194
8.3 Armed attacks on humanitarian personnel = 206
9 War and humanitarian action : Iraq and the Balkans = 211
9.1 Internally displaced persons = 214
9.2 East Timor:the cost f independence = 236
9.3 International criminal justice = 240
10 The Rwandan genocide and its aftermath = 245
10.1 The problem of militarized refugee camps = 248
10.2 Refugees and the AIDS pandemic = 253
10.3 Somalia:from exodus to diaspora = 256
10.4 War and displacement in West Africa = 260
10.5 Western Sahara:refugees in the desert = 266
11 The changing dynamics of displacement = 275
Annexes = 301
Further reading = 328