Statelessness and environmental-induced displacement: Future scenarios of deterritorialisation, rescue and recovery examined

Mobilities

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 433-450

  Blitz, Brad K ^a  

^a KINGSTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Deterritorialisation; Environmental displacement; Resettlement; Statelessness

Indexed keywords

HUMAN RIGHTS; MOBILITY; MOVEMENT; NATION STATE; TERRITORIALITY;

MALDIVES; MELANESIA; MICRONESIA; POLYNESIA;

EID: 80052825998     PISSN: 17450101     EISSN: 1745011X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2011.590039     Document Type: Article

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