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Presents comments by the authors & Tom Corsellis submitted in response to the feature section on 'people in camps' appearing in Forced Migration Review, 1998, 2, Aug.

America's offshore refugee camps rank among the most startling, yet invisible, features of United States foreign policy in the post-Cold War era. Since 1991, our Government has almost continuously maintained tent cities holding thousands of men, women, and children, surrounded by rolls of razor-barbed wire, amid the sweltering heat of the U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and the former Panama Canal Zone. Those incarcerated in the camps have witnessed birth and death, hope and despair, and untold waves of frustration and tedium.

Responds to comments in this issue by Jeff Crisp & Karen Jacobsen & Tom Corsellis on the feature section on 'people in camps' appearing in Forced Migration Review, 1998, 2, Aug.

This paper outlines how the migration of refugees impacts different regions. Often the issue is not that they are migrating, but what is imported along with them. The flow of refugees from one country to another, particularly in Central Africa, had detrimental consequences which led to a series of wars and destabilization of the region. Other refugees fleeing simultaneously for reasons of persecution can trigger broader issues. This paper asserts that both refugee-sending states and refugee-receiving states are more likely to initiate in militarized disputes against each other. The broader goal of this paper is to contribute toward research that examines the mutually reinforcing relationship between the state and the refugee, and how they influence each other's paths toward eventual policy. Often, the issues and actors in civil wars span national boundaries and become part of a regional security dynamic, blurring the line between what is an internal war and a larger regional conflict.