Pdf on sep 1, 2014, simon turner and others published survival migration. The division of zimbabweans into refugees and migrants 78 5. International treaties, conventions, and organizations to protect refugees were established in the aftermath of world war ii to protect people escaping targete. Failed governance and the crisis of displacement alexander betts international treaties, conventions, and organizations to protect refugees were established in the aftermath of world war ii to protect people escaping targeted persecution by their own governments. Failed governance and the crisis of displacement alexander betts on. The national politics of international institutions 29 3. This shift in causation makes the 1951 refugee convention increasingly inapt and consequently produces a shift in protection regime, from precision and consistency to imprecision and inconsistency.
Although many of the current academic and policy debates focus on new drivers of displacement such as generalised violence, environmental change and food insecurity, what ultimately determines whether international protection is needed is the quality of governance in the country of origin. However, the nature of crossborder displacement has transformed dramatically since then. Failed governance and the crisis of displacement, alexander betts analyses the national politics of international institutions norms and international organisations relating to refugees, focusing on the national and local dynamics of international institutional adaptation. Betts coins the term survival migration to refer to people who are outside their country of origin because of an existential threat for which they have no access to a. Alexander betts notes that many people fleeing human rights deprivations in fragile or failed states look very much like refugees and yet fall outside the definition of a refugee, often being denied protection p. Use the link below to share a fulltext version of this article with your friends and colleagues.
State fragility, refugee status and survival migration. Human migration will be a defining issue of this century. Failed governance and the crisis of displacement, open epub for book. Export a ris file for endnote, procite, reference manager, zotero, mendeley export a text file for bibtex note. Failed governance and the crisis of displacement, by a. The world as a whole lacks a vision for how to respond to the changing nature 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. Survival migration starts out by noting that the primary cause of crossborder displacement has shifted from persecution to deprivation. Failed governance and the crisis of displacement, international journal of refugee law on deepdyve, the largest online rental service for scholarly research with thousands of academic publications available at your fingertips. Towards a soft law framework for protection of vulnerable irregular.