Abstract (may include machine translation)
Refugee is not a neutral descriptive term denoting people who have fled; it is a legal and political term and the way it is bestowed speaks to placemaking activities of the state. The contribution that geographical approaches to refugees makes is in studying the relationship between refugeeness as a general condition of forced displacement and the legal category refugee bestowed by states. States are manifestations of a territorial take on political life; geographers do well to illumine the connections between territoriality, place making, and refugees.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences: Second Edition |
Publisher | Elsevier Inc. |
Pages | 111-116 |
Number of pages | 6 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9780080970875 |
ISBN (Print) | 9780080970868 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 26 Mar 2015 |
Keywords
- Internally displaced people
- Refugees
- Territorialization
- UNHCR