Lexington Books
Pages: 280
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Trim: 6¼ x 9¼
978-0-7391-0923-6 • Hardback • February 2006 • $130.00 • (£100.00)
Nicholas Van Hear is a senior researcher at the Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS), University of Oxford, prior to which he held research positions at the Refugee Studies Centre in Oxford and at the Danish Institute for International Studies in Copenhagen. Christopher McDowell is a Senior Lecturer in the International Policy Institute at King's College London and Director of the Information Centre about Asylum and Refugees (ICAR).
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Burundi: A Case of Humanitarian Neglect
Chapter 3 From Complex Displacement to Fragile Peace in Sri Lanka
Chapter 4 Protracted Displacement in Colombia: National and International Responses
Chapter 5 Afghanistan's Complex Forced Migration
Chapter 6 Georgia's Forced Migrants
Chapter 7 Displacement, Return, and Justice in the Creation of Timor Leste
Chapter 8 Conclusion: Recasting Societies in Conflict
Catching Fire deals with some of the most difficult cases of forced displacement in the world today. Leading experts outline how these crises came about and why they continue to persist. This book should be recommended reading for policymakers, practitioners, and students of forced migration.
— Professor Gil Loescher, University of Oxford
A penetrating analysis of what goes wrong in the national and international response to humanitarian emergencies and how best to remedy problems in the field and at headquarters. It should greatly assist policymakers and practitioners in better understanding the dynamics of forced migration and designing comprehensive approaches to address the plight of the world's millions of forcibly uprooted people.
— Roberta Cohen, codirector of The Brookings Institution; University of Bern Project on Internal Displacement
Based on extensive research in six of the world's most complex recent humanitarian emergencies, Catching Fire provides a particularly incisive analysis of the international community's response to the problems of armed conflict and human displacement.
— Dr. Jeff Crisp, Global Commission on International Migration
Catching Fire makes clear the terrible burdens posed by forced migration as well as the difficulties responding to forced migration.... Will likely prove of most interest to practitioners and theorists concerned with refugees and internally displaced persons.... A clear overview of the complexity of the complexity of modern forced migration.
— Benjamin Lieberman; H-Genocide, March 2009
A wide-ranging and timely collection of case studies about the international humanitarian system's inadequacies in aiding and protecting the diverse categories of war victims who are forced to move. This book is necessary grounding for future thinking about changing that system.
— Prof. Thomas G. Weiss, Director, Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies, The CUNY Graduate Center