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Book SynopsisForced migration in the 21st century is closely linked to three global developments: climate change, rapid urbanization and the lack of solutions faced by millions of displaced people. The
Handbook on Forced Migration brings a critical lens to the study of these issues. By adding the often overlooked disciplines of history and philosophy, this Handbook challenges narratives on forced migration, explains contemporary challenges, and provides a call for action.
Each section of the Handbook presents diverse perspectives and a range of case studies on the interaction between forced migration and climate change, urbanization and solutions. The Introduction challenges different forced migration narratives, and the Conclusion makes new arguments for standards in forced migration research. A final chapter explores potential problems for forced migrants around digital technology,
This fascinating Handbook will be an important read for human rights, humanitarian and development practitioners, and for urban studies and migration scholars and students. The research-centred approach will benefit academics and policymakers undertaking new investigations.
Trade Review‘As global displacement is seen to be ever increasing in scale and complexity, this collection of perspectives – from a truly remarkable group of contributors – is essential reading for anyone that seeks to more fully understand this enduring phenomenon.’ -- James Milner, Carleton University, Canada
‘The Handbook on Forced Migration
provides a wide-ranging and iconoclastic set of reflections on forced migration across disciplinary perspectives. The first-rate and diverse set of contributors prove excellent guides through the thicket of this fundamental issue of our time.’ -- Matthew J. Gibney, University of Oxford, UK
‘The Handbook on Forced Migration
is a unique resource blending the perspectives of migrants, practitioners, and many of the leading lights and rising stars of academic research. Jacobsen and Majidi have curated an excellent introduction to many of the most vexing issues in the field.’ -- David Scott FitzGerald, University of California San Diego, US
‘With a focus on climate change displacement, urban areas, and solutions to displacement and through a lens that braids history and philosophy, this insightful examination of forced migration is novel, timely, and needed—highly recommended for anyone concerned with knowledge production in migration research and with today’s policy approaches.’ -- Cecilia Menjívar, University of California, Los Angeles, US
Table of ContentsContents: Preface xviii Nassim Majidi POEM: MAZEN SLEEPS WITH HIS FOOT ON THE FLOOR BY MARTÍN ESPADA PART I INTRODUCTION 1 Introduction to the Handbook on Forced Migration: a critical take on forced migration today 3 Karen Jacobsen and Nassim Majidi 2 Negotiating ambiguous status: mixed migration in theory and practice 20 Katrina Burgess 3 Migrant categorization under the patchwork of international, regional, and national law 33 John Cerone PART II PHILOSOPHY 4 Philosophy of forced migration: sit at the table or knock it over 45 Hervé Nicolle 5 Labels, norms: the illusion of control 58 Interview with Oliver Bakewell 6 Thinking without ‘fixing’: towards a feminist political geography 66 Interview with Jennifer Hyndman 7 Ethics, globalization, counter-narratives: confronting structural injustice 76 Interview with Serena Parekh 8 Dissensus, fictions, emancipation: the struggle for a world to come 85 Interview with Jacques Rancière 9 Securitization, decriminalization, resistance: from old fears to new values 92 Interview with Seyla Benhabib 10 Otherness, language, exile: expressing the poem of the Relation 100 Interview with Tanella Boni POEM: FLOATERS BY MARTÍN ESPADA NARRATIVE: CROSSING BORDERS BY FIRAT BOZÇALI AND REBECCA GALEMBA PART III HISTORY 11 Historical perspectives on forced migration 117 Susan Martin 12 Historians and forced migration: a persistent feeling of disconnect? 134 Jerome Elie 13 Reckoning with refugeedom: historical perspectives 142 Peter Gatrell 14 History, memory and the ethics of asylum 149 Tony Kushner 15 The roots of asylum 155 Ninette Kelley 16 Historical process tracing and forced migration: re-examining the creation of the refugee definition 162 Phil Orchard 17 Historiographies of early modern forced migrations in Europe and the Atlantic world 168 Susanne Lachenicht 18 The antecedents of forced migration in the Middle East 176 Dawn Chatty 19 The ‘home-coming’ of the refugees: narratives of partition-induced forced migration in South Asia (1947–1971) 182 Anindita Ghoshal POEM: ASKING QUESTIONS OF THE MOON BY MARTÍN ESPADA NARRATIVE: ENCLAVE DWELLERS AND PROXY CITIZENS IN BANGLADESH AND INDIA BY MD AZMEARY FERDOUSH PART IV CLIMATE CHANGE AND ENVIRONMENTAL MOBILITY 20 Climate change, population, environment and forced migration 193 Jennifer Ventrella and Michael Cohen 21 Climate change, migration and inequality in contemporary India 207 Kavya Michael and Juhi Bansal 22 Climate and migration in Latin America and the Caribbean 215 Maiara Folly and Adriana Erthal Abdenur 23 Theorizing mobility justice in contexts of climate mobilities 225 Mimi Sheller 24 Challenging the “lifeboat discourse” on population and migration 232 Anne Hendrixson 25 Climate mobility and COP accountability 243 Karen Jacobsen and Susan Martin POEM: I WOULD STEAL A CAR FOR YOU BY MARTÍN ESPADA NARRATIVE: WAITING IN TRANSIT BY ANTJE MISSBACH PART V URBAN SETTINGS 26 The urbanisation of displacement 256 Lucy Earle 27 If not camps, then… cities? 270 Dyfed Aubry 28 Aid-induced informal settlement creation following disaster: the cautionary tale of Port-au-Prince’s Canaan slum 277 Christopher Ward and Louis Jadotte 29 Reconstruction as violence and forced displacement in Syria 283 Deen Sharp 30 Self-reliance in urban contexts for displaced people 291 Kellie C. Leeson, Paul Karanja, Galo Quizanga Zambrano and Dale Buscher 31 Framing urban displacement economies 298 Alison Brown, Patricia Garcia Amado, Engida Esayas Dube, Tegegne Gebre-Egziabher and Peter Mackie 32 From integration to conviviality: Syrian refugees in London and Berlin 307 Deena Dajani 33 National and local orders in the response to Venezuelan forced migration in Colombia: perspective from urban settings 314 Carolina Moreno, Gracy Pelacani and Laura Dib-Ayesta 34 The value of mayors in urban displacement settings: the case of Amman, Jordan 319 Yousef Al Shawarbeh (Mayor of Amman) and Samer Saliba POEM: NOT FOR HIM THE FIERY LAKE OF THE FALSE PROPHET BY MARTÍN ESPADA NARRATIVE: MARKETS OF DISPLACEMENT BY LUIGI ACHILLI AND KIM WILSON PART VI SOLUTIONS 35 Putting people back into place 331 Cathrine Brun 36 Rethinking solutions in never-ending displacement: what are the alternatives? 349 Cathrine Brun, Anita H. Fábos, Maha Shuayb and Nicholas Van Hear in conversation 37 Self-reliance and refugee economics in Uganda 362 Eria Serwajja and Hilde Refstie 38 Displacement limbo: durable solutions for IDPs in Georgia and Ukraine 376 Sean Loughna with Olga Ivanova and Julia Kharasvili 39 The shifting grammar of durable solutions in Latin America 388 Marcia Vera Espinoza POEM: I NOW PRONOUNCE YOU DEAD BY MARTÍN ESPADA NARRATIVE: RETURN AFTER INTERRUPTED MIGRATION CYCLES BY MAYBRITT JILL ALPES PART VII LIVED EXPERIENCES: THE VIEWS OF REFUGEES AND PRACTITIONERS REFUGEES 40 Narrative: life in South Africa: irresistible soft power meets the hard reality 412 Barnabas Ticha Muvhuti 41 Narrative: we escaped in seconds … it then takes four years to become a refugee 414 Hassan Hersi 42 Narrative: a Malawian in South Africa – the good and the bad 416 Mwaona Nyirongo 43 Narrative: I have always felt like I am not a forced migrant … enough 418 Yuliia Kabanets 44 Narrative: when a new chapter in my life began as a ‘forced migrant’ 420 Saida Azimi 45 Narrative: the second time I became a refugee 423 Zabihullah Barakzai PRACTITIONERS 46 Narrative: a few thoughts about UNHCR and the UN 426 Joel Boutroue 47 Narrative: a discredited model of refugee response 431 Jeff Crisp 48 Narrative: a more realistic conversation on solutions 434 Ninette Kelley 49 Narrative: moving beyond emergency assistance 438 Renata Dubini 50 Narrative: forced migration – a personal view 439 Richard Danziger PART VIII THE FUTURE 51 Responsibility and trust: using digital technologies in forced migration 443 Evan Easton-Calabria 52 Conclusion: a call for ethical standards in forced migration research 461 Nassim Majidi and Karen Jacobsen Index
