Review Essays

Topical Foci: Refugees & Human Rights

The Deconstruction of Refugees and the Reconstruction of History by Peter W. Van Arsdale

States and Strangers: Refugees and Displacements of Statecraft. By Navzat Soguk. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press (Borderlines Series, No. 11), 1999. 328pp.

Shaping Asylum: The Power of Language by Teresa Tellechea

Arguing about Asylum: The Complexity of Refugee Debates in Europe by Nicklaus Steiner. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000. 186pp.

Explaining Rwanda's 1994 Genocide By Paul Magnarella

When Victims Become Killers: Colonialism, Nativism, and the Genocide in Rwanda by Mahmood Mamdani. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2001. 364pp.

Genocide in Rwanda: A Collective Memory edited by John A. Berry and Carol Pott Berry. Washington, DC: Howard University Press, 1999. 201pp.

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