Forced migration: current issues and debates

Forced Migration: Current Issues and Debates provides a critical engagement with and analysis of contemporary issues in the field using inter-disciplinary perspectives, through different geographical case studies and by employing varying methodologies. The combination of authors reviewing both the key research and scholarship and offering insights from their own research ensures a comprehensive and up-to-date analysis of the current issues in forced migration. The book is structured around three main current themes: the reconfiguration of borders including virtual borders, the expansion of prolonged exile, and changes in protection and access to rights. The first chapters in the collection provide both context and a theoretical overview by situating current debates and issues in their historical context including the evolution of field and the impact of the colonial and post-colonial world order on forced migration and forced displacement. These are followed by chapters framed around substantive issues including deportation and forced return; protracted displacements; securitising the Mediterranean and cross-border migration practices; refugees in global cities; forced migrants in the digital age; and second-generation identity and transnational practices. Forced Migration offers an original contribution to a growing field of study, connecting theoretical ideas and empirical research with policy, practice and the lived experiences of forced migrants. The volume provides a solid foundation, for students, academics and policy makers, of the main questions being asked in contemporary debates in forced migration.

Forced migration: setting the scene / Alice Bloch, Giorgio Donà -- Conceptualising forced migration: praxis, scholarship and empirics / Roger Zetter -- Why critical forced migration studies has to be post-colonial by nature / Paula Banerjee, Ranabir Samaddar -- Securitising the Mediterranean? cross-border migration practices in Greece / Eftihia Voutira -- Protracted displacement: living on the edge / Jennifer Hyndman, Wenona Giles -- Deportation and forced return / Nassim Majidi, Liza Schuster -- Displacement and the pursuit of urban protection: forced migration, fluidity and global cities / Loren B. Landau -- Mobile technologies and forced migration / Giorgio Donà, Marie Godin -- Second generation from refugee backgrounds: affects and transnational ties and practices to the ancestral homeland / Milena Chimienti, Anna-Laure Counilh, Laurence Osspiow -- Reflecting on the past, thinking about the future: forced migration in the 21st century / Giorgio Donà, Alice Bloch