Introduction. Some categories and distinctions ; Some recurring themes ; The objectives and structure of this book
Defining 'refugees.' International refugee law: origins ; The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) ; The 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees ; Broader legal definitions ; Refugee protection under other branches of law ; Status determination by states ; Ordinary language understandings of 'refugee' ; Philosophical definitions of 'refugee'
Exile and refuge : A brief overview. Political violence, marginalization and the human experience ; Exile and ideology from the seventeenth to the early twentieth centuries ; Russian and German refugees between the World Wars ; Postwar refugee resettlement ; Internal conflict and refugee movements in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries
States and refugees ; The Westphalian system ; Bureaucracy and its failings ; Individual initiatives ; People smuggling : a product of state inaction
Roots of refugee 'crises' in a globalized world. State disruption and violent conflict ; The fear of 'terrorism' ; Transport, the wherewithal to travel, and human mobility ; Globalisation and its impacts
Diplomacy and refugees. Frameworks for negotiation over refugees ; 'Burden sharing' and its dilemmas ; The temptation of 'easy options' ; Refugees as agents
Refugees, intervention and the 'responsibility to protect.' The use of force ; The idea of humanitarian intervention ; The responsibility to protect ; 'Intervention' as a solution
'When Adam delved and Eve span...' : some reflections on closing and opening borders. The costs of controlled borders ; The moral costs of refugee exclusion ; Confronting the 'Birthright lottery' ; A final word.
