- [UNTITLED]
- Dedication
- Foreword by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- List of Abbreviations
- List of Contributors
- Introduction: Refugee and Forced Migration Studies in Transition
- Histories of Refugee and Forced Migration Studies
- The International Law of Refugee Protection
- Political Theory, Ethics, and Forced Migration
- International Relations and Forced Migration
- Anthropology and Forced Migration
- Sociology and Forced Migration
- Livelihoods and Forced Migration
- Geographies of Forced Migration
- Encampment and Self-Settlement
- Urban Refugees and IDPs
- Protracted Refugee Situations
- Internal Displacement
- Refugees, Diasporas, and Transnationalism
- Forced Migrants as ‘Illegal’ Migrants
- Human Rights and Forced Migration
- UNHCR and Forced Migration
- UNRWA and Palestinian Refugees
- Refugees and Humanitarianism
- State Controls: Borders, Refugees, and Citizenship
- The Securitization of Forced Migration
- Protection Gaps
- Statelessness
- Humanitarian Reform: From Coordination to Clusters
- Conflict and Crisis Induced Displacement
- Development Created Population Displacement
- The Environment-Mobility Nexus: Reconceptualizing the Links between Environmental Stress, (Im)mobility, and Power
- Trafficking
- The Politics of Refugee Voices: Representations, Narratives, and Memories
- Children and Forced Migration
- Gender and Forced Migration
- Older Refugees
- Disability and Forced Migration
- Health and Forced Migration
- Religion and Forced Migration
- The Media and Representations of Refugees and Other Forced Migrants
- Rethinking ‘Durable’ Solutions
- Local Integration
- ‘Voluntary’ Repatriation and Reintegration
- Refugee Resettlement
- Burden Sharing and Refugee Protection
- Forced Migration in West Africa
- Forced Migration in Southern Africa
- Forced Migration in the Great Lakes and Horn of Africa
- Forced Migration in the Middle East and North Africa
- Forced Migration in Broader Central Asia
- Forced Migration in South Asia
- Forced Migration in South-East Asia and East Asia
- Forced Migration in Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific
- Forced Migration in South America
- Forced Migration in Central America and the Caribbean: Cooperation and Challenges
- Forced Migration in North America
- Forced Migration in Europe
- Name Index
- Subject Index
Abstract and Keywords
This chapter argues the need to rethink ‘durable’ solutions to displacement, with emphasis on facilitating refugees’ mobility to enable them to come up with their own transformative solutions. More specifically, it considers whether migration might offer a ‘fourth solution’ to complement the conventional solutions of repatriation, local integration, and resettlement. The chapter suggests that it is important to recognize and contest the inherent ‘sedentary bias’ that characterizes state-centred responses to migration during conflict and crisis. It also highlights the failure to ‘solve’ forced migration by framing the ‘refuge problem’ in terms of physical dislocation, rather than focusing on the denial of the political rights of refugees and internally displaced persons as citizens. Finally, the chapter looks at attempts to implement mobility-focused solutions in West Africa and Afghanistan and the prospects for successful implementation of such a mobility-centred strategy in the face of political hostility towards migration.
Keywords: displacement, refugees, mobility, migration, forced migration, refuge problem, physical dislocation, internally displaced persons, West Africa, Afghanistan
Katy Long's research examines the politics of migration in conflict and crisis affected areas, focusing in particular on refugee movements and international "solutions" to forced migration crises. Katy has worked extensively with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, particularly in considering how access to migration channels might contribute to resolving refugees' exile. She is a Lecturer in International Development at the University of Edinburgh, having previously been a Lecturer at the Department of International Development, London School of Economics and Political Sciences, and a post-doctoral researcher at the Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford.
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- [UNTITLED]
- Dedication
- Foreword by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- List of Abbreviations
- List of Contributors
- Introduction: Refugee and Forced Migration Studies in Transition
- Histories of Refugee and Forced Migration Studies
- The International Law of Refugee Protection
- Political Theory, Ethics, and Forced Migration
- International Relations and Forced Migration
- Anthropology and Forced Migration
- Sociology and Forced Migration
- Livelihoods and Forced Migration
- Geographies of Forced Migration
- Encampment and Self-Settlement
- Urban Refugees and IDPs
- Protracted Refugee Situations
- Internal Displacement
- Refugees, Diasporas, and Transnationalism
- Forced Migrants as ‘Illegal’ Migrants
- Human Rights and Forced Migration
- UNHCR and Forced Migration
- UNRWA and Palestinian Refugees
- Refugees and Humanitarianism
- State Controls: Borders, Refugees, and Citizenship
- The Securitization of Forced Migration
- Protection Gaps
- Statelessness
- Humanitarian Reform: From Coordination to Clusters
- Conflict and Crisis Induced Displacement
- Development Created Population Displacement
- The Environment-Mobility Nexus: Reconceptualizing the Links between Environmental Stress, (Im)mobility, and Power
- Trafficking
- The Politics of Refugee Voices: Representations, Narratives, and Memories
- Children and Forced Migration
- Gender and Forced Migration
- Older Refugees
- Disability and Forced Migration
- Health and Forced Migration
- Religion and Forced Migration
- The Media and Representations of Refugees and Other Forced Migrants
- Rethinking ‘Durable’ Solutions
- Local Integration
- ‘Voluntary’ Repatriation and Reintegration
- Refugee Resettlement
- Burden Sharing and Refugee Protection
- Forced Migration in West Africa
- Forced Migration in Southern Africa
- Forced Migration in the Great Lakes and Horn of Africa
- Forced Migration in the Middle East and North Africa
- Forced Migration in Broader Central Asia
- Forced Migration in South Asia
- Forced Migration in South-East Asia and East Asia
- Forced Migration in Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific
- Forced Migration in South America
- Forced Migration in Central America and the Caribbean: Cooperation and Challenges
- Forced Migration in North America
- Forced Migration in Europe
- Name Index
- Subject Index