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Refugees

其他書名	The Structures of a Global Justice Issue
出版	Center of Concern, 1983
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=u_j6PQAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋In this paper, the author probes the structural dimensions of the contemporary refugee problem and demonstrates that the main refugee flows in the world today are the direct or indirect result of forces which lie outside the countries where the refugees originate. He indicates that enduring unfavourable economic trends throughout the world have produced widespread depressed living conditions. When those particularly victimized have reacted, they have encountered military suppression, whereupon many have fled as refugees. Current refugees are overwhelmingly from the Third World. Still operating legal concepts of refugees, formulated with a view to European refugees following the two World Wars, are inadequate to today's conditions in excluding important categories, namely internally displaced persons, victims of military operations not covered by the Geneva Convention and economic refugees. The author believes that the basic cause of present refugees has been the polarization of the world along the lines of the USSR-USA conflicts, which is part of the world system wherein consideration of refugees is subordinated to ideological and security consideration. If the causes producing refugees are to be eliminated, this world system itself must be reformed, with priority given to humanitarian considerations.