1st Edition

The Property Rights of Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons Beyond Restitution

By Anneke Smit Copyright 2012
272 Pages
by Routledge

272 Pages
by Routledge

272 Pages
by Routledge

The Property Rights of Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons: Beyond Restitution explores how the protection of housing and property rights can contribute to durable solutions to displacement. The focus of most of the international community’s recent protection efforts has been on returning displaced persons to their homes following armed conflict.  This prioritization has been entrenched... Read more

Introduction; Chapter 1: The development of the right to return to one’s home of origin; Chapter 2:Modern experiences with post-conflict restitution and return; Chapter 3: Restitution and return ‘home’; Chapter 4:Local integration and the regularization of collective centre space; Chapter 5: Compensation and regularizing secondary occupation; Conclusion.

Biography

Anneke Smit is Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Law, University of Windsor, Canada