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Handbook on Forced Migration
Forced migration in the 21st century is inextricably linked to three global developments: climate change, rapid urbanization and the lack of solutions faced by millions of forcibly displaced people. By adding a focus on the disciplines of history and philosophy, this erudite Handbook challenges narratives on forced migration and explains these contemporary challenges in a unique light.
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Forced 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.
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.
Critical Acclaim
‘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
– 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
Contributors
Contributors: Adriana Abdenur, Luigi Achili, Jill Alpes, Dyfed Aubry, Saida Azimi, Oliver Bakewell, Juhi Bansal, Zabihullah Barakzai, Seyla Benhabib, Tanella Boni, Joel Boutroue, Firat Bozcali, Alison Brown, Cathrine Brun, Katrina Burgess, Dale Buscher, John Cerone, Dawn Chatty, Michael Cohen, Jeff Crisp, Deena Dajani, Richard Danziger, Laura Dib-Ayesta, Renata Dubini, Lucy Earle, Evan Easton-Calabria, Jerome Elie, Engida Esayas Dube, Martin Espada, M. Vera Espinoza, Anita Fabos, Azmeary Ferdoush, Maiara Folly, Rebecca Galemba, Patricia Garcia Amado, Peter Gatrell, Tegegne Gebre-Egziabher, Anindita Ghoshal, Anne Hendrixson, Hassan Hersi, Jennifer Hyndman, Olga Ivanova, Karen Jacobsen, Louis Jadotte, Yulia Kabanets, Paul Karanja, Ninette Kelley, Julia Kharasvili, Tony Kushner, Susanne Lachenicht, Kellie Leeson, Sean Loughna, Peter Mackie, Nassim Majidi, Susan Martin, Kavya Michael, Antje Missbach, Carolina Moreno, Barnabas Ticha Muvhuti, Hervé Nicolle, Mwaona Nyirongo, Phil Orchard, Serena Parekh, Gracy Pelacani, Galo Quizanga, Jacques Rancière, Hilde Refstie, Samer Saliba, Eria Serwajja, Deen Sharp, Yousef Shawarbeh, Mimi Sheller, Maha Shyayb, Nicholas Van Hear, Jennifer Ventrella, Christopher Ward, Kim Wilson
Contents
Contents:
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
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
