TY  - BOOK
AU  - May,Larry
TI  - Ethnic cleansing
SN  - 9781032812830
AV  - HV640 .M378 2025
U1  - 362.87/1 23/eng/20250218
PY  - 2025///
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Refugees
KW  - Forced migration
KW  - Persecution
KW  - Minorities
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction: Setting the Problem -- A Proposed "Consensus" Definition -- Ancient "Ethnic" Atrocities -- The Trail of Tears -- Darfur -- Bosnia: The "Paradigm Case"? -- Gaza and the West Bank -- The Meaning of the Term 'Ethnic' -- The Meaning of the Term "Cleansing" -- Identity and Ethnicity -- Minority Rights -- Destroying versus Cleansing -- Cleansing and Crimes Against Humanity -- The 'Divorce' Metaphor -- The Role of International Criminal Law -- Prosecuting Perpetrators of Ethnic Cleansing -- Defenses for Ethnic Cleansing -- Voluntary Population Transfers -- Forced Transfers and the "Eminent Domain" Metaphor -- Justice After Ethnic Cleansing -- Is Ethnic Cleansing Ever Necessary? -- The Misuse of the Idea of Purity -- Conclusions
N2  - "Putting forward the argument that the strength of democracies can be measured in how well minorities - especially ethnic and racial minorities - are treated by the majority, Larry May's Ethnic Cleansing maintains that unjust ethnic cleansing is one of the greatest internal challenges to the modern institutions of pluralistic and multi-cultural states"--
ER  -