This authoritative Handbook critically evaluates the birth and development of Refugee and Forced Migration Studies, and analyses the key contemporary and future challenges faced by academics and practitioners working with and for forcibly displaced populations around the World.

PART I: APPROACHES: OLD AND NEW; PART II: SHIFTING SPACES AND SCENARIOS OF DISPLACEMENT; PART III: LEGAL AND INSTITUTIONAL RESPONSES TO FORCED MIGRATION; PART IV: ROOT CAUSES OF DISPLACEMENT; PART V: LIVED EXPERIENCES AND REPRESENTATIONS OF FORCED MIGRATION; PART VI: RETHINKING DURABLE SOLUTIONS; PART VII: REGIONAL STUDIES: CURRENT REALITIES AND FUTURE CHALLENGES

The 53 chapters written by leading subject matter experts offer not only compelling regional case studies and thematic overviews in the different fields, from disability and gender to statelessness, trafficking/ smuggling and IDPs (internally displaced persons), butalso take an in-depth look at solutions and future avenues forresearch.

Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh was the Director of the Refugee Studies Centre's International Summer School in Forced Migration between 2010 and 2012. Prior to joining the RSC, Elena was Senior Teaching Fellow in Development Studies and Research Fellow in Diaspora Mobilisation and International Security at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. She has also worked as a legal advisor for refugees in Cairo with AMERA-Egypt, as a refugee case-worker with Amnesty International Australia's Refugee Team, and as a legal clerk at the International Criminal Court, conducting research on crimes committed in Darfur (Sudan). She is Departmental Lecturer in Forced Migration at the Refugee Studies Centre, and Junior Research Fellow in Refugee Studies at Lady Margaret Hall, both at the University of Oxford.Gil Loescher is a long-established expert on international refugee policy. For over 25 years, he was Professor of International Relations at the University of Notre Dame in the United States and was a visiting fellow at Princeton University, LSE, Oxford and the Department of Humanitarian Affairs at the US State Department in Washington, D.C. In recent years he has been Senior Research Fellow, Centre for International Studies, University of Oxford, Senior Fellow for Forced Migration and International Security at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London and a senior researcher at the European Council on Refugees and Exiles. He is Visiting Professor at the Refugee Studies Centre, Queen Elizabeth House, University of Oxford.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.Nando Sigona was previously a Senior Research Officer at the Refugee Studies Centre and Senior Researcher at the Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS) at the University of Oxford. His research explores the impact of globalisation, migration and the human rights regime on meanings and practices of citizenship and non-citizenship in countries affected by significant population movements. He is particularly interested in statelessness, diasporas and the state; Romani politics and anti-Gypsyism; 'illegality' and the everyday experiences of undocumented migrant children and young people; and governance and governmentality of forced migration in the EU. He is a Birmingham Fellow at the School of Social Policy, University of Birmingham.Contributors: Jerome Elie is the Executive Director of the Programme for the Study of Global Migration at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies Guy Goodwin Gill is Professor of Public International Law and Fellow All Souls College, Oxford University Matthew J. Gibney is Reader in Politics and Forced Migration at the University of Oxford, Official Fellow of Linacre College, Oxford, and Deputy Director of the Refugee Studies Centre. Alexander Betts is University Lecturer in Refugee Studies and Forced Migration Studies, University of Oxford, and Fellow of Green Templeton College Dawn Chatty is Professor of Anthropology and Forced Migration and a Fellow of St. Cross College at the University of Oxford. She is the Director of the Refugee Studies Centre. Finn Stepputat is Senior Researcher, research unit on Migration, Danish Institute for International StudiesNinna Nyberg Sørensen is Senior Researcher and the Head of the research unit on Migration, Danish Institute for International Studies Karen Jacobsen is Associate Professor at the Feinstein International Center, Tufts University Michael Collyer is Senior Lecturer in Geography at the University of Sussex. Oliver Bakewell is co-director of the International Migration Institute at the University of Oxford Loren B. Landau is the Director of the African Center for Migration and Society (ACMS) (formerly Forced Migration Studies Programme, FMSP) at Wits University in Johannesburg, South Africa. James Milner is an Associate Professor in Political Science at Carlton University Walter Kälin os Professor of Constitutional and International Public Law, University Bern and Senior Fellow at the Brookings-LSE project on Internal Displacement. Nicholas Van Hear is a Senior Researcher and Deputy Director at the Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS) at the University of Oxford. Stephen Scheel is a postgraduate researcher in the Department of Politics and International Studies at the Open University.Vicki Squire is Associate Professor of International Security at the University of Warwick Jane McAdam is Professor of Law, University of New South Wales, Australia Gil Loescher is Visiting Professor, Refugee Studies Centre, Oxford University and Emeritus Professor, University of Notre Dame Susan Akram is a Clinical Professor of Law, Boston University Law School Randall Hansen holds a Research Chair in Political Science, University of Toronto, Canada Ann Hammerstadt, Lecturer in International Relations, University of Kent Volker Turk, Director of International Protection, UNHCR Rebecca Dowd, Division of International Protection, UNHCR Alice Edwards is Chief of the Protection Policy and Legal Advice Section at UNHCR in Geneva. She is also Research Associate, Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford and Research Fellow at St Anne's College. Laura van Waas is Senior Researcher and Manager of the Statelessness Programme, an initiative of Tilburg Law School in the Netherlands, dedicated to research, training and outreach on statelessness and related issues. Vicky Tennant, Senior Policy Officer, UNHCR Simon Russell, Senior Protection Officer, UNHCR Michael Barnett, University Professor of International Affairs and Political Science, George Washington University Sarah Lischer is Associate Professor of Political Science at the Department of Politics and International Affairs, Wake Forest University. Dr Christopher McDowell is a Reader in International Politics at the Department of International Politics, City University London Roger Zetter is Emeritus Professor of Refugee Studies, University of Oxford. He retired as the fourth Director of the Refugee Studies Centre in September 2011. James Morrissey is a Research Officer at the Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford. Bridget Anderson is Professor of Migration and Citizenship at the University of Oxford where she is Deputy Director of the Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS). Nando Sigona is Birmingham Fellow and Lecturer at the University of Birmingham and Research Associate at the Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford. Jason Hart is Senior Lecturer at the Department of Social and Policy Studies, University of Bath. Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh is Departmental Lecturer in Forced Migration at the Refugee Studies Centre, and a Junior Research Fellow in Refugee Studies at Lady Margaret Hall, both at the University of Oxford. Claudio Bolzman is Professor at the Department of Social Work, University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland (HES-SO) and Senior Lecturer at the Department of Sociology, University of Geneva. Mansha Mirza is Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Alastair Ager is Professor of Clinical Population and Family Health at the Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University. David Hollenbach, S.J., University Chair in Human Rights and International Justice, Theology Department, Boston College Terence Wright is professor of Visual Arts at the University of Ulster. Katy Long is Lecturer in International Development at the University of Edinburgh, and Research Associate at the Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford Lucy Hovil is senior researcher at the International Refugee Rights Intiative, Kampala. Laura Hammond is Senior Lecturer in Development Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. Joanne Van Selm is an Independent Consultant on Migration and Refugee Issues, Associate Director of Research at Eurasylum and Adjunct Professor at Georegetown University. Martin Gottwald is Senior Leadership Development Coordinator at United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) and was formerly a Senior Protection Officer at UNHCR. Marion Fresia is Assistant Professor at the Institut d'ethnologie, University of Neuchâtel Jonathan Crush is Professor of Global Development Studies and Director of the Southern African Research Centre, Queen's University, Kingston, Canada Abel Chikanda is Post Doctoral Fellow, Global Development Studies, Queen's University, Kingston, Canada Gaim Kibreab is Professor and Course Director in Refugee Studies, Department of Social and Policy Studies, London South Bank University. Sari Hanafi is Associate Professor of Sociology at the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, American University of Beirut. Bayram Balci is a Visiting Scholar on the Middle East Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Washington, DC Alessandro Monsutti is Research Director at the Programme for the Study of Global Migration, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva. He is also a Research Associate at the Refugee Studies Centre. Paula Banerjee is Associate Professor, Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies, University of Calcutta, and former President of the International Association for Study of Forced Migration. Kirsten McConnachie is the Joyce Pearce Junior Research Fellow at Lady Margaret Hall and the Refugee Studies Centre, both at the University if Oxford. Anne McNevin is a Lecturer in the School of Political and Social Inquiry at Monash University. Jose H. Fischel de Andrade is a Professor at the University of Milan, Italy and a UNHCR-designated Judge at the National Court of Asylum (Cour Nationale de Droit d' Asile, CNDA) in Paris. He is a UNHCR senior staff member. Megan Bradley is a Fellow in Foreign Policy at the Brookings Institution, where she works with the Brookings-LSE Project on Internal Displacement. Susan Martin holds the Donald G. Herzberg Chair in International Migration and is the Director of the Institute for the Study of International Migration in the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. Dr Roland Bank is the Head of Protection in UNHCR's Representation for Austria and Germany in Berlin.