Mitigating Misery: An Inquiry Into the Political and Humanitarian Aspects of U.S. and Global Refugee Policy

by Robert F. Gorman

Book Overview

With over seventeen million refugees inhabiting the globe today, this book addresses this dramatic 20th century phenomenon and several of the issues it raises. Gorman examines how refugee situations arise and the way in which they are addressed by the various global actors: governments, U.N. agencies, and private voluntary organizations. He argues that the entire refugee situation the provisions of aid, the search for durable solutions, and the resolution...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0819191752
• ISBN13: 9780819191755
• Release Date: October 1993
• Publisher: University Press of America
• Length: 362 Pages