Forced Migration and Global Processes: A View from Forced Migration Studies (Program in Migration and Refugee Studies) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0739112767 ISBN 13: 9780739112762

Publisher: Lexington Books, 2005

Synopsis

Migration is at the center of much of the discussion on globalization. Migrants move across borders and thus defy state-centered traditions. Migration is often caused or influenced by aspects of global change: the transformation of the world economy with the expansion of free trade, the modification of the world balance of power and the challenge of global insecurity, the emergence of the global environment as an important political issue, and the redefinition of the role of communities in shaping identities when faced with networks of migrants and diasporas. Forced Migration and Global Processes considers the crossroads of forced migration with three global trends: development, human rights, and security. This expert collection studies these complex interactions and aims to help determine what solutions may alleviate most of the human suffering involved in forced migrations.

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About the Author

François Crépeau is a Professor of International Law at the University of Montreal, Canada. He holds a Canada Research Chair on International Migration Law and is Scientific Director of the Centre for International Studies (CÉRIUM). Delphine Nakache is a Research Associate at the Canada Research Chair on International Migration Law at the University of Montreal, Canada. Michael Collyer is a research fellow in the Department of Geography and the Sussex Centre for Migration Research at the University of Sussex, UK. Nathaniel H. Goetz is Interim Director of the Forced Migration Laboratory at the University of California, San Diego Center for Comparative Immigration Studies (CCIS). Art Hansen is an Associate Professor in the Department of International Affairs and Development, Clark Atlanta University (Atlanta, Georgia) with thirteen years of experience living and working in Sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America. Renu Modi is a political scientist who teaches at the Department of African Studies, University of Mumbai, India. Aninia Nadig is a refugee policy specialist based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. She currently coordinates the Working Group on International Refugee Policy. Sanja ?poljar Vr?ina, M.D., Ph.D., is Scientific Advisor at the Institute of Social Sciences Ivo Pilar in Zagreb, Croatia and a Professor of Anthropology at the University of Zagreb. Loes H. M. Van Willigan, M.D., Ph.D., is a consultant on health and human rights.

Edition details

• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0739112767
• ISBN 13: 9780739112762
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 424
• Editor: Crepeau Francois, Nakache Delphine, Collyer Michael, Goetz Nathaniel H., Hansen Art