Emma Haddad, The Refugee in International Society: Between Sovereigns: Cambridge University Press (2008) 256 pages, ISBN-13: 978-0521868884

The Refugee in International Society: Between Sovereigns by Emma Haddad is reviewed. Refugees are individuals no longer resident in the state where they used to reside and where they expected protection from the state but did not receive it. They now live outside the borders of that state. The question to ask is whether there is any connection between Haddad's constructivist methodology that stresses the importance of norms in the international system and her reliance on normative language in the end as if it were equivalent to a panacea for refugees instead of a rhetorical cover-up for inaction.