Refugees: Geographical Aspects

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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 languageEnglish
Title of host publicationInternational Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences: Second Edition
PublisherElsevier Inc.
Pages111-116
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9780080970875
ISBN (Print)9780080970868
DOIs
StatePublished - 26 Mar 2015

Keywords

  • Internally displaced people
  • Refugees
  • Territorialization
  • UNHCR

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