International Responses to human Displacement: neo-liberalism and Post-Cold War Geopolitics
This paper explores conditions which shape current international interventions to assist displaced persons. In particular, the intersection of neo-liberal politics at the national level with international geopolitics after the CoId War, and subsequent strategies of managing human displacement are ex...
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| description | This paper explores conditions which shape current international interventions to assist displaced persons. In particular, the intersection of neo-liberal politics at the national level with international geopolitics after the CoId War, and subsequent strategies of managing human displacement are examined. First, a trend in domestic politics and policies in Canada is illustrated through a series of current examples. From these vignettes, a pattern of neo-liberalism emerges. Second, a trend is noted towards
increased peacekeeping operations and the deployment of'preventive protection'-a strategy which emphasizes assistance to displaced persons within their country of origin, often
within a conflict zone-since the end of the Cold War. The possibility of a connection between neo-liberalism at home and peacekeeping and preventive protection abroad is explored. The irnperfect humanism of the international refugee regime is being superseded, it is argued, by a dangerous 'neo-humanism' maintained through pervasive neoliberal policies at national and international levels. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-bd2ed1eb00d04eb897e2829c86425e3f2022-12-22T00:25:42ZengYork University LibrariesRefuge0229-51131920-73361996-04-0115310.25071/1920-7336.21190International Responses to human Displacement: neo-liberalism and Post-Cold War GeopoliticsJennifer HyndmanThis paper explores conditions which shape current international interventions to assist displaced persons. In particular, the intersection of neo-liberal politics at the national level with international geopolitics after the CoId War, and subsequent strategies of managing human displacement are examined. First, a trend in domestic politics and policies in Canada is illustrated through a series of current examples. From these vignettes, a pattern of neo-liberalism emerges. Second, a trend is noted towards increased peacekeeping operations and the deployment of'preventive protection'-a strategy which emphasizes assistance to displaced persons within their country of origin, often within a conflict zone-since the end of the Cold War. The possibility of a connection between neo-liberalism at home and peacekeeping and preventive protection abroad is explored. The irnperfect humanism of the international refugee regime is being superseded, it is argued, by a dangerous 'neo-humanism' maintained through pervasive neoliberal policies at national and international levels.https://refuge.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/refuge/article/view/21190 |
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| title | International Responses to human Displacement: neo-liberalism and Post-Cold War Geopolitics |
| title_full | International Responses to human Displacement: neo-liberalism and Post-Cold War Geopolitics |
| title_fullStr | International Responses to human Displacement: neo-liberalism and Post-Cold War Geopolitics |
| title_full_unstemmed | International Responses to human Displacement: neo-liberalism and Post-Cold War Geopolitics |
| title_short | International Responses to human Displacement: neo-liberalism and Post-Cold War Geopolitics |
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