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

Chen Chen Lee ()
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Chen Chen Lee: freelance researcher, Phnom Penh, Vietnam

Migration Letters, 2006, vol. 3, issue 2, 137-149

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: Refugees; Southeast Asia; Realism; State security (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
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