Forced Migration Review (Sep 2018)

A disaster approach to displacement: IDPs in the Philippines

  • Reinna Bermudez,
  • Francis Tom Temprosa,
  • Odessa Gonzalez Benson

Journal volume & issue
no. 59
pp. 44 – 45

Abstract

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In the absence of a national policy on internal displacement, the Philippines has used a disaster management framework to address displacement caused by terrorism-related conflict in Marawi City. Such a response, however, suffers from the absence of a rights-based foundation.

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