The migration-displacement nexus : patterns, processes, and policies / edited by Khalid Koser and Susan Martin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Koser, Khalid.

Martin, Susan F. (Susan Forbes)

Series:

Studies in forced migration ; v. 32.

Studies in forced migration ; v. 32

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Emigration and immigration.

Forced migration.

Return migration.

Refugees.

Physical Description:

vi, 287 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Berghahn Books, 2011.

Summary:

Koser (Geneva Centre for Security Policy, Switzerland) and Martin (international migration, Georgetown U., US) deploy the concept of the "migration-displacement nexus" as a means of illustrating "the increasing complexities of migration and displacement; the growing difficulties of distinguishing between the two; the misalignment between existing labels, categories and constructions and migration realities; and the consequences of falling into legal, normative, and institutional gaps." They present 14 papers that illustrate these complexities of the migration-displacement nexus around the world, shedding light on the ways that categories of voluntary versus forced and economic versus political migration are too simplistic; protection gaps due to mixed flows of migrants to and from places but with differing motives; the ways that different migrant groups adopt broadly similar survival strategies and how that can lead to the invisibility of victims of forced displacement and resettlement; status and category changes for migrants resulting either through intentional acts (e.g., overstaying a visa) or through arbitrary changes in law and policies; cases where migrants simultaneously fit multiple pre-existing categories; and different levels of vulnerability and need within single categories. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780857451910

085745191X

OCLC:

704378359