Unintended Consequences of Adjacency Claims: The Function and Dysfunction of Analogies between Refugee Protection and IDP Protection in the Work of UNHCR

This article examines the role of adjacency claims in the development of a norm for the international protection of internally displaced persons (IDPs). Consistent with existing scholarship on adjacency claims, the construction of analogies between refugee protection and IDP protection was instrumen...

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Published in:Global governance 2019-10, Vol.25 (4), p.620-644
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