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States located near crisis zones are most likely to see an influx of people fleeing from manmade disasters; African states, for instance, are forced to accommodate and adjust to refugees more often than do European states far away from sites of upheaval. Geography dictates that states least able to pay the costs associated with refugees are those most likely to have them cross their borders. Therefore, refugee protection has historically been characterized by a North-South impasse. While Southern states have had to open their borders to refugees fleeing conflict or human rights abuses in neighboring states, Northern states have had little obligation or incentive to contribute to protecting refugees in the South. In recent years, however, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has sought to foster greater international cooperation within the global refugee regime through special conferences at which Northern states are pushed to contribute to the costs of protection for refugees in the South. These initiatives, Alexander Betts finds in Protection by Persuasion, can overcome the North-South impasse and lead to significant cooperation. Betts shows that Northern states will contribute to such efforts when they recognize a substantive relationship between refugee protection in the South and their own interests in such issues as security, immigration, and trade. Highlighting the mechanisms through which UNHCR has been able to persuade Northern states that such links exist, Protection by Persuasion makes clear that refugee protection is a global concern, most effectively addressed when geographic realities are overridden by the perception of interdependence.

Refugees --- Displaced persons --- Persons --- Aliens --- Deportees --- Exiles --- Government policy --- International cooperation --- Protection --- Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. --- A.C.N.U.R. --- ACNUR --- Agência da ONU para Refugiados --- Agencia de la ONU para los Refugiados --- Alto Comisionado de las Naciones Unidas para los Refugiados --- Alto Comisionado de Naciones Unidas para los Refugiados --- Alto Comissariado das Nações Unidas para Refugiados --- Alto commissariato delle Nazioni Unite per i rifugiati --- Cao ủy của Liên Hợp Quốc về người tị nạn --- Cao ủy Liên Hiệp Quó̂c vè̂ người tị nạn --- Cao ủy Liên Hợp Quốc về người tị nạn --- Cao uỷ Tị nạn Liên Hiệp Quó̂c --- Flüchtlingshochkommissariat der Vereinten Nationen --- Grapheio tēs Hypatēs Harmosteias tōn Hēnōmenōn Ethnōn gia tous Prosphyges --- Haut commissariat des Nations Unies pour les réfugiés --- HCR --- Hypatē Harmosteia Hēnōmenōn Ethnōn gia tous Prosphyges --- Hypatē Harmosteia tōn Hēnōmenōn Ethnōn gia tous Prosphyges --- Înaltul Comisariat al Națiunilor Unite pentru Refugiați --- Ishami ry'Umuryango w'Abibumbye ryita ku Mpunzi --- Kokuren Nanmin Kōtō Benmukan Jimusho --- Mufawwaḍīyah al-Sāmiyah lil-Umam al-Muttaḥidah li-Shuʼūn al-Lājiʼīn --- Mufawwaḍīyat al-Umam al-Muttaḥidah li-Shuʼūn al-Lājiʼīn --- مفوضية الأمم المتحدة لشؤون اللاجئين --- Oficina del Alto Comisionado de las Naciones Unidas para los Refugiados --- Oficina del Alto Comisionado de las Naciones Unidas para Refugiados --- United Nations. --- U.N.H.C.R. --- UNHCR --- United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees --- Upravlenie Verkhovnogo komissara OON po delam bezhent︠s︡ev --- Upravlinni︠a︡ Verkhovnoho komisara OON u spravakh biz︠h︡ent︠s︡iv --- Ured Visokog komesara Ujedinjenih naroda za izbjeglice --- UVKB OON --- Verkhovnyĭ komissar Organizat︠s︡ii Obʺedinennykh Nat︠s︡iĭ po delam bezhent︠s︡ev --- Visoki komisariat Združenih Narodov za begunce --- VKBOON --- ICNUR --- Yuen Nanmin Kigu --- 유엔 난민 기구 --- International Refugee Organization --- Flüchtling --- Flüchtlingspolitik --- Internationale Kooperation --- Refugees--Government policy. --- Refugees--International cooperation. --- Refugees--Protection. --- Regierung --- Schutz --- Vereinte Nationen --- Hoher Kommissar für Flüchtlinge --- Migration. Refugees --- Protection. --- Government policy. --- International cooperation. --- United Nations. Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees --- United Nations. High Commissioner for Refugees --- Verenigde Naties. Hoge commissaris voor de vluchtelingen --- United Nations. Alto Comisionado para los Refugiados --- United Nations. Flüchtlingshochkommissariat --- United Nations. High Commission for Refugees --- United Nations. High Commission on Refugees --- United Nations. Hochkommissariat für Flüchtlinge --- United Nations. Oficina del Alto Comisionado para Refugiados