Introducing Forced Migration – Patricia Hynes

List of figures and maps
List of tables
List of boxes
Preface
Acknowledgements

1 Introduction to the study of forced migration
Introduction
Legal instruments and definitions
Important considerations and caveats when studying forced migration
Which organisations assist people who migrate?
Who are international migrants?
Who are forced migrants?
Key theories of migration and forced migration
The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals
Outline of the book
Further reading
References

2 Who is a ‘refugee’ and who is an ‘asylum seeker’?
Introduction
Who is a refugee?
Who is a refugee under international law?
Regional mechanisms
Who is an asylum seeker, and who has the right to seek asylum from persecution?
Globally, how many people are refugees?
Palestinian refugees
Where do refugees come from?
Where are the world’s refugees hosted?
Statelessness
Protracted refugee situations
What solutions are available for people who flee persecution?
The power of definition: labelling refugees, forced migrants and the forcibly displaced
Further reading
References

3 Who is an ‘internally displaced person’?
Introduction
Who is an Internally Displaced Persons (IDP)?
The Kampala Convention and the Great Lakes IDP Protocol
Where are people internally displaced?
The needs of IDPs
Further risks and needs
The possibility of ‘durable solutions’?
Internal ‘human trafficking’
Researching internal displacement – methodological, data collection and statistical challenges
Further reading
References

4 Who is a ‘victim’ or ‘survivor’ of trafficking?
Introduction
Who is a ‘victim’ of human trafficking?
What are the key issues with the Palermo Protocol definition?
What are the differences between ‘human trafficking’ and ‘human smuggling’?
Evidence, statistics, estimates and monitoring mechanisms
Why are people trafficked?
Who is trafficked worldwide?
Who are the ‘traffickers’?
Current geography of human trafficking
Further reading
References

5 Mixed movements of people and human rights
Introduction
‘Root causes’ or drivers of forced migration
What are human rights?
The International Bill of Rights and subsequent international instruments
What form do human rights take?
Key critiques of human rights
Human rights and forced migration
The right to asylum
Mixed movements and mixed migration
Further reading
References

6 ‘Children on the move’ and the ‘displaced child’
Introduction
The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child
Terminology shifts
Who is a child? Who are children on the move? What are their migration pathways?
What do we know about ‘children on the move’?
Are children an inherently ‘vulnerable’ group?
‘Women and children’, men and boys
Safe spaces, advocates and guardians
Further reading
References

7 Understanding legislative and policy responses and ethical imperatives
Introduction
20th-century responses
21st-century responses
Working with and/or conducting ethically informed research with displaced populations
Some scenarios for considering ethical research
Beyond ‘Do no harm’ in research with people in situations of forced migration
Further reading
References

8 Contemporary issues, the refugee ‘crisis’ and proposed ‘solutions’
Introduction
The Rohingya from Myanmar
The Mediterranean ‘migration crisis’
Human smuggling and human trafficking
The quest for solutions – Refuge, Refugia, island nations and rights-based approaches
Today’s ‘children on the move’
COVID-19
Race, racism and Black Lives Matter
Concluding remarks
Further reading
References

Index