The Reinforcement of Non-Admission Policies and the Subversion of UNHCR: Displacement and Internal Assistance in Bosnia-Herzegovina (1992-94)

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This article examines new developments in international refugee policy which focus on providing protection within countries of origin. A case study of the international response to mass displacements in Bosnia-Herzegovina is used to demonstrate that the new activities within refugee generating countries are unlikely to prevent the causes of refugee flows. However, these activities remain attractive for affluent States because they can be used to contain forced migration and reinforce exclusionary policies that deny entry to asylum seekers. Furthermore, by having the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees involve itself in this new in-country assistance, these same States can divert the UN's main refugee organization from its traditional role of securing acceptable conditions of asylum for refugees.

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