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Refugee Policy is a Realist’s Nightmare: The Case of Southeast Asia

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  • Chen Chen LEE

    (freelance researcher, Phnom Penh, Vietnam)

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Although Southeast Asia has experienced one of history’s most complex and massive displacement of populations dur-ing the Indo-China crisis, it remains one of the least ad-vanced regions in terms of refugee law and practice. This paper explains the region's compassion fatigue towards refugees. States’ responses to refugee protection are limited by a prevailing sense of sovereign rights and communalism in the region, and the primordial need to safeguard national interest and state security. Other factors include lessons from the Indo-Chinese exodus, the underdevelopment of some economies, and a general poor record of human rights in the region.

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  • Chen Chen LEE, 2006. "Refugee Policy is a Realist’s Nightmare: The Case of Southeast Asia," Migration Letters, Migration Letters, vol. 3(2), pages 137-149, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:mig:journl:v:3:y:2006:i:2:p:137-149
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