Comparative regional protection frameworks for refugees / edited by Susan Kneebone.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-211) and index.

This collection focuses on regional approaches to refugee protection, and specifically upon the norms, and the norm entrepreneurs of those approaches. It considers how recent crises in refugee protection (such as the Syrian and Andaman Sea crises) have highlighted the strengths and limits of regional approaches to refugee protection and the importance of looking closely at the underlying norms, and the identities and activities of the relevant ‘norm entrepreneurs’ at the regional level. It compares the norms of refugee protection that have evolved in three regions: the EU, Latin America and the South East Asian region, to identify which norms of refugee protection have been ‘internalised’ in the three regional contexts and to contextualise the processes. The authors demonstrate the need for awareness of the roles of different norm ‘entrepreneurs’ such as states, international organisations and civil society, in developing and promoting basic norms on refugee protection.This book was originally published as a special issue of The International Journal of Human Rights.

Comparative regional protection frameworks for refugees: norms and norm entrepreneurs / Susan Kneebone -- ASEAN and its approach to forced migration issues / Sriprapha Petcharamesree -- Refugee protection and responsibility sharing in Latin America: solidarity programmes and the Mexico Plan of Action / Stefania Eugenia Barichello -- Human security and external burden-sharing: the European approach to refugee protection between past and present / Paolo Biondi -- Networks and norm entrepreneurship amongst local civil society actors: advancing refugee protection in the Asia Pacific region / Alice M. Nah -- The ethics of resettlement: Australia and the Asia-Pacific Region / Maria O'Sullivan -- Rights, needs or assistance? The role of the UNHCR in refugee protection in the Middle East / Dallal Stevens -- Index