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The World's Refugee Epidemic.(Book Review)
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World and I
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February 1, 2005
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Vera Laska is a professor of history at Regis College in Weston, Massachusetts.
EXODUS WITHIN BORDERS: AN INTRODUCTION TO THE CRISIS OF INTERNAL DISPLACEMENT
By David A. Korn
Washington D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 1999
pp. vii-147, $22.95 hardcover, illustrated
The first thing to keep in mind about this slender volume is that it is based on the in-depth study entitled Masses in Flight: The Global Crisis of Internal Displacement by Roberta Cohen and Francis M. Deng, published also by the Brookings Institution Press, in 1988. Thus, serious researchers and people who intend to do something about the problem of internally displaced persons should turn ...