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The Idea of Home in Law - Displacement and Dispossession (Paperback)
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The Idea of Home in Law - Displacement and Dispossession (Paperback)
Series: Law, Property and Society
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The Idea of Home in Law: Displacement and Dispossession explores an
important set of legal and policy issues surrounding the concepts
of home and homelessness, taking a growing area of legal
scholarship into the new arena of human rights and international
law. The collection considers the ideas concerning home - both in
the sense of the dwelling place as a special type of property, and
territorial claims to homeland - which underpin many contemporary
legal problems, by examining a range of contexts where people are
displaced or dispossessed from their homes. The essays focusing on
dispossession consider themes ranging from mortgage and rent
arrears in the UK to responses to the foreclosure crisis in the
USA, and from eviction for the purposes of economic development in
South Africa to the exclusion of asylum seekers from the UK's
social housing and welfare provision, and within the framework of
the European Convention on Human Rights. The displacement theme,
meanwhile, examines transnational 'home' issues from the
experiences of exiles and refugees in areas of conflict to the
impact of the broader context of economic, social and cultural
rights on attempts to protect housing and home through
international law. At the heart of each essay the contributors,
experts from across the fields of law, policy, and housing rights,
examine the circumstances in which displacement and dispossession
take place, and reconsider how law and policy respond to such
circumstances with a particular focus on the impact of loss of home
for the human person. At a time of particular and increasing
concern about security of tenure and the role of law and policy in
protecting people who are vulnerable to forced eviction, The Idea
of Home in Law presents a bold opportunity to raise questions about
the 'rights' and norms associated with housing and home, and to
generate new insights for scholarship and for national and
international policy debates concerning displacement and
dispossession.
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