Forced Migration and Global Processes: A View from Forced Migration Studies (Program in Migration and Refugee Studies) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0739112767 ISBN 13: 9780739112762

Publisher: Lexington Books, 2006

Synopsis

Migration is at the center of much of the discussion on globalization. Migrants move across borders and thus defy state-centered traditions. Migration is often caused or influenced by aspects of global change: the transformation of the world economy with the expansion of free trade, the modification of the world balance of power and the challenge of global insecurity, the emergence of the global environment as an important political issue, and the redefinition of the role of communities in shaping identities when faced with networks of migrants and diasporas.
Forced Migration and Global Processes considers the crossroads of forced migration with three global trends: development, human rights, and security. This expert collection studies these complex interactions and aims to help determine what solutions may alleviate most of the human suffering involved in forced migrations.

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About the Author

Michael Collyer is Professor of Geography at the university of Sussex. He was previously lecturer, senior lecturer and reader at Sussex. During the 2012/13 academic year he held a Fulbright scholarship in the Department of Geography at the University of Washington, Seattle. He has held other visiting positions at Universities in Egypt, France, Morocco, New Zealand and Sri Lanka. Before his appointment as lecturer at Sussex he held a three-year Marie Curie Outgoing International Fellowship, based at the University of Colombo, Sri Lanka. He was previously a Nuffield Foundation New Career Development Fellow at Abdelmalek Essaadi University in Tétouan, Morocco. He completed his PhD, on the dynamics of the Euro-Algerian migration system, in 2002.

Edition details

• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0739112767
• ISBN 13: 9780739112762
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 424
• Editor: Crepeau Francois, Nakache Delphine, Collyer Michael, Goetz Nathaniel H., Hansen Art