Full Description
This authoritative and comprehensive edited volume presents current research on how demography can contribute to generating scientific knowledge and evidence concerning refugees and forced migration, developing evidence based policy recommendations on protection for forced migrants and reception of refugees, and revealing the determinants and consequences of migration for origin and destination regions and communities. Refugee and other forced migrations have increased substantially in scale, complexity and diversity in recent decades. These changes challenge traditional approaches in response to refugee and other forced migration situations, and protection of refugees. Demography has an important contribution to make in this analytic space. While other disciplines (especially anthropology, law, geography, political science and international relations) have made major contributions to refugee and forced migration studies, demography has been less present with most research focusingon issues of refugee mortality and morbidity. This book specifies the range of topics for which a demographic approach is highly appropriate, and identifies findings of demographic research which can contribute to ever more effective policy making in this important arena of human welfare and international policy.
Contents
1: Introduction: Advancing the Demography of Forced Migration and Refugees: Graeme Hugo, Mohammad Jalal Abbasi-Shavazi and Ellen Percy Kraly.- Part I: Forced Migration: Concepts, Data: 2: Concepts of Refugee and Forced Migration: Considerations for Demographic Analysis: Charles B. Keely and Ellen Percy Kraly.- 3: Registration -A Sine Qua Non for Refugee Protection: Bela Hovy.- 4: Comparative Demographic Analysis of Forced and Refugee Migrations: The Regional Case of Asia: Mohammad Jalal Abbasi-Shavazi and Ellen Percy Kraly.- Part II: Demographic Perspectives on Forced Migration: 5: Forced Migration and Patterns of Mortality and Morbidity: Holly E. Reed, Mara Getz Sheftel, and Arash Behazin.- 6: Interrelationships of Forced Migration, Fertility and Reproductive Health: Victor Agadjanian.- 7: Behind and Beyond Disaggregation by Sex: Forced Migration, Gender and the Place of Demography: Ellen Percy Kraly.- 8: Family Dynamics in the Context of Forced Migration: Mohammad Jalal Abbasi-Shavazi, Hossein Mahmoudian, Rasoul Sadeghi.- Part III: Patterns and Dimensions of Forced Migration: 9: Changing Patterns of Internal Displacement: The Art of Figure Skating: Susanne Schmeidl and Kaitlyn Hedditch.- 10: Environmentally-related international displacement: following in Graeme Hugo's footsteps: Susana B. Adamo.- 11: The nexus between forced and irregular migration: Insights from demography: Marie McAuliffe.- Part IV: Processes and Policies concerning Forced Migration: 12: Migration and Security: Exploding the Myths and Understanding the Realities: Khalid Koser.- 13: Return to Home: Reintegration and Sustainability of Return to Post-Conflict Contexts: Abdullah Mohammadi, Mohammad Jalal Abbasi-Shavazi, Rasoul Sadeghi.- 14: Forced Migration and Refugee Policy: Susan F. Martin.- 15: Epilogue: Advancing Demographic Analysis of Refugee and Forced Migration.
