Nationalism, law and statelessness : grand illusions in the Horn of Africa / John R. Campbell.
2014
KQC567 .C655 2014 (Map It)
Available at Cellar
Formats
| Format | |
|---|---|
| BibTeX | |
| MARCXML | |
| TextMARC | |
| MARC | |
| DublinCore | |
| EndNote | |
| NLM | |
| RefWorks | |
| RIS |
Items
Details
Author
Title
Nationalism, law and statelessness : grand illusions in the Horn of Africa / John R. Campbell.
Published
Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2014.
Call Number
KQC567 .C655 2014
ISBN
9780415634939 (hardback)
0415634938 (hardback)
9780203584057 (e-book)
0203584058 (e-book)
0415634938 (hardback)
9780203584057 (e-book)
0203584058 (e-book)
Description
xv, 220 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
System Control No.
(OCoLC)802325727
Summary
In 1998 a bloody war erupted in The Horn of Africa between Ethiopia and Eritrea. During the war Ethiopia arrested and expelled 70,000 of its citizens, and stripped another 50,000-plus of their citzenship on the basis of their presumed ethnicity. Nationalism, Law and Statelessness: Grand Illusions in the Horn of Africa examines the events which led up to the war, documents the expulsions and denationalisations that took place and follows the flight of these stateless Ethiopians out of the Horn into Europe.
The core issue examined is the link between sovereignty and statelessness as this plays out in The Horn of Africa and in the West. The book provides a valuable insight into how nations create and perpetuate statelessness, the failure of law, both national and international, to protect and address the plight of stateless persons, and the illusory nature of nationalism, citizenship and human rights in the modern age. The study is one of a very few which examines the problem of statelessness through the accounts of stateless persons themselves. -- Publisher.
The core issue examined is the link between sovereignty and statelessness as this plays out in The Horn of Africa and in the West. The book provides a valuable insight into how nations create and perpetuate statelessness, the failure of law, both national and international, to protect and address the plight of stateless persons, and the illusory nature of nationalism, citizenship and human rights in the modern age. The study is one of a very few which examines the problem of statelessness through the accounts of stateless persons themselves. -- Publisher.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 198-210) and index.
Record Appears in
Gift
Purchased from the income of the African Law Center Fund
Gift
The Arthur W. Diamond Law Library
Purchased from the income of the African Law Center Fund
Table of Contents
List of figures
vi
List of tables
vii
List of boxes
viii
List of case studies
ix
List of case law
xi
Preface
xiii
Introduction
1
1.
Nationalism, the 1998-2000 Ethiopia-Eritrea war and the denationalization of `Eritreans'
19
2.
Politics, law and the limitations of international arbitration at The Hague
48
3.
Flight from the Horn: Transiting Africa to find refuge
71
4.
illusion of citizenship and of return: Politics and persecution in the Horn
94
5.
illusion of refuge: The search for asylum and the failure of international law
119
6.
`Bare life': The vulnerability and political significance of stateless persons
143
Conclusion
163
Appendix
178
Glossary
180
Notes
186
Bibliography
198
Index
211