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Record Nr.

UNINA9910462306603321

Autore

Smit Anneke

Titolo

The property rights of refugees and internally displaced persons : beyond restitution / / Anneke Smit

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon [England] ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2012

ISBN

1-280-68161-6

9786613658555

1-136-33144-1

0-203-12219-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (267 p.)

Disciplina

341.4/86

Soggetti

Refugees - Legal status, laws, etc

Internally displaced person - Legal status, laws, etc

Restitution

Repatriation

Right of property

Refugees - Housing

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"A GlassHouse book."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The development of the right to return to one's home of origin -- Modern experiences with post-conflict restitution and return -- Restitution and return "home" -- Local integration and the regularization of collective centre space -- Compensation and regularizing secondary occupation.

Sommario/riassunto

The Property Rights of Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons: Beyond Restitution explores how the protection of housing and property rights can contribute to durable solutions to displacement. The focus of most of the international community's recent protection efforts has been on returning displaced persons to their homes following armed conflict. ?This prioritization has been entrenched further by the 2005 United Nations Principles on Housing and Property Restitution for Refugees and Displaced Persons (the ""Pinheiro



Principles""). Yet as Anneke Smit chronicles in this book, the internat