Internal displacement in South Asia : the relevance of the UN's guiding principles / edited by Paula Banerjee, Sabyasachi Basu Ray Chaudhury, Samir Kumar Das ; [contributors, Bishnu Adhikari ... et al.]. - New Delhi ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, 2005. - 370 p. ; 22 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Afghanistan : the long way home / Mossarat Qadeem -- Pakistan : development and disaster / Atta ur Rehman Sheikh -- India : homelessness at home / Samir Kumar Das -- India's Northeast : nobody's people in no man's land / Subir Bhaumik -- Bangladesh : displaced and dispossessed / Meghna Guhathakurta and Suraiya Begum -- Burma : escape to ordeal / Sabyasachi Basu Ray Chaudhury -- Nepal : a problem unprepared for / Manesh Sreshtha and Bishnu Adhikari -- Sri Lanka : a profile of vulnerability / Joe William -- Resisting erasure : women IDPs in South Asia / Paula Banerjee -- Epilogue : international law on the internally displaced persons / David Fisher.

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Internally displaced persons--South Asia.
Refugees--South Asia.
Forced migration--South Asia.
Human rights--South Asia.

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