JMHS Special Collection | Protracted Displacement, the Search for Solutions, Promising Programs and Strategies

The Center for Migration Studies of New York (CMS) is pleased to announce the release of a special issue of its Journal on Migration and Human Security (JMHS) on protracted displacement. The issue, co-edited by Donald Kerwin and Elizabeth Ferris (guest editor), is entitled Protracted Displacement, the Search for Solutions, Promising Programs and Strategies.

The special issue features 11 papers, beginning with an integrative paper by Ferris and Kerwin that offers topline findings, recommendations, and cross-cutting themes from the papers that form the heart of the collection. These papers — by leading scholars and researchers, including displaced persons — focus on the situations of several large and some smaller and less-publicized populations in protracted displacement. The special issue covers both groups outside their countries of origin and internally displaced persons (IDPs). Among other populations, the papers highlight Rohingya refugees in southeast Bangladesh; Syrians in Turkey since 2011; Afghans in Pakistan since the 1970s; IDPs living on the outskirts of Baku, Azerbaijan; IDPs and Venezuelans in Colombia; Somalis in Ethiopia and Kenya; Central Americans seeking protection in Mexico and the United States; IDPs in Northern Mexico; and Syrian, Iraqi, Yemeni, Sudanese, Somali, and Iranian refugees in Turkey, Jordan and Lebanon.

More than 100 million persons are forcibly displaced throughout the world, with roughly three-quarters of them in situations of protracted displacement. This special issue examines the causes, consequences, and promising strategies in response to these diverse situations. The papers also offer an intimate look at the challenges, needs, and aspirations of affected populations and communities.

Read and download the full digital edition for free at: https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/MHS/current

Watch a recording of our webinar, which features some of the authors from the collection discussing their papers in further detail: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Js2BkMCVjg

Articles in This Collection:

Durable Displacement and the Protracted Search for Solutions: Promising Programs and Strategies by Elizabeth Ferris and Donald Kerwin

A Development Approach to a Protracted IDP Situation: Lessons from Azerbaijan by Jennifer S. Wistrand

The Responses of Pakistan and Turkey to Refugee Influxes: A Comparative Analysis of Durable Solutions to Protracted Displacements by Hidayet Siddikoglu and Ali Zafer Sagiroglu

Between Humanitarian Assistance and Externalizing of EU Borders: The EU-Turkey Deal and Refugee Related Organizations in Turkey by Ludger Pries and Berna Safak Zülfikar Savci

Somali Refugees, Informality, and Self-initiative at Local Integration in Ethiopia and Kenya by Abdirahman A. Muhumad and Rose Jaji

Community-Based Research in Fragile Contexts: Reflections From Rohingya Refugee Camps in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh by Mohammad Azizul Hoque, Tasnuva Ahmad, Samira Manzur, and Tasnia Khandaker Prova

Five Years Lost: Youth Inclusion in the Rohingya Response by Imrul Islam and Zia Naing

Patterns of Refugees’ Organization Amid Protracted Displacement: An Understanding From Jordan, Lebanon, and Turkey by Oroub El-Abed, Watfa Najdi, and Mustafa Hoshmand

Concurrent Displacements: Return, Waiting for Asylum, and Internal Displacement in Northern Mexico by Isabel Gil-Everaert, Claudia Masferrer, and Oscar Rodríguez Chávez

The Tampa, Afghan Refugees and New Zealand: A Commentary on the Duty to Protect and Refugee Integration by Edwina Pio ONZM and Sakina Ewazi

Integration Through Health During Protracted Displacement: Case Studies From Colombia and Jordan by Katherine McCann, Fouad M. Fouad, Arturo Harker Roa, and Monette Zard