Editing Refugee (section)

=== International relations ===
[[Alexander Betts (political scientist) | Alexander Betts]] highlights the phenomenon of refugees as "indicative of a breakdown of the [[nation-state]] system".<ref>
{{cite book
 |last1                = Betts
 |first1               = Alexander
 |author-link1         = Alexander Betts (political scientist)
 |editor-last1         = Fiddian-Qasmiyeh
 |editor-first1        = Elena
 |editor-last2         = Loescher
 |editor-first2        = Gil
 |editor-link2         = Gil Loescher
 |editor-last3         = Long
 |editor-first3        = Katy
 |editor-last4         = Sigona
 |editor-first4        = Nando
 |date                 = 12 June 2014
 |chapter              = International Relations and Forced Migration
 |title                = The Oxford Handbook of Refugee and Forced Migration Studies
 |url                  = https://books.google.com/books?id=Lp_NAwAAQBAJ
 |series               = Oxford Handbooks
 |publication-place    = Oxford
 |publisher            = Oxford University Press
 |page                 = 60
 |isbn                 = 9780191645877
 |access-date          = 26 October 2024
 |quote                = Refugees [...] are an inherent part of international politics [...].  The refugee and the state system are two sides of the same coin, and the former cannot be understood without reference to the latter. The 'figure of the refugee' is an integral part of the international system, symbolizing the failure of the breakdown of the state-citizen-territory relationship assumed by the state system (Haddad 2008). [...] Forced migration is, by definition, indicative of a breakdown of the nation-state system. All forms of forced migration go to the core of questions of state sovereignty, and invite a host of other questions relating to security and the international political economy.
}} 
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