Creating Surplus Populations: The Effect of Military & Corporate Policies on Indigenous Peoples - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0944624316 ISBN 13: 9780944624319

Publisher: Maisonneuve, 1996

Synopsis

Nonfiction. This book lays the blame for the creation of surplus populations squarely at the feet of the military and development policies of Western nations, much of the damage being done by the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, and weapons manufacturers. Along with GATT and NAFTA, these international agencies act as the apparatus of neo-colonialism.

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About the Author

Lenora Foerstel is the North American coordinator of Women for Mutual Security.

Review

Creating Surplus Populations: The Effect Of Military And Corporate Policies On Indigenous Peoples is a courageous and important book which refutes the self-serving misinformation coming from the UN Population Conference in Egypt and Western governments. The new challenge for human rights activists is to guarantee to indigenous and Third World peoples the same rights that modernized societies claim for themselves. Top do this, one must understand the impact of GATT and NAFTA on traditional and emerging societies. This will be the basis for long-lasting solutions to mass migrations and displacement. Along with the papers and essays from refugee experts, Creating Surplus Populations contains selections from UN Conventions on the rights of refugees and the complete text of the draft Convention on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. While other studies have documented the crisis, Creating Surplus Populations uniquely reveals the root causes for why some 50 million people worldwide are now refugees. -- Midwest Book Review

Edition details

• Publisher: Maisonneuve
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0944624316
• ISBN 13: 9780944624319
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 292
• Editor: Foerstel Lenora