Abstract

Examining resettlement practices worldwide and drawing on contributions from anthropology, law, international relations, social work, political science, and numerous other disciplines, this ground-breaking volume highlights the conflicts between refugees’ needs and state practices, and assesses international, regional and national perspectives on resettlement, as well as the bureaucracies and ideologies involved. It offers a detailed understanding of resettlement, from the selection of refugees to their long-term integration in resettling states, and highlights the relevance of a lifespan approach to resettlement analysis.


Adèle Garnier is a lecturer at the Department of Modern History, Politics and International Relations, Macquarie University, Australia. She has held research positions at the Interuniversity Research Centre for Globalization and Work (CRIMT), Université de Montréal, Canada and the Group for Research on Migration, Ethnic Relations and Equality (GERME), Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium. She has published in Refuge, the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies and WeltTrends.

“This edited collection promises to become a standard read for anyone interested in the topic of resettlement. The book offers a much-needed critical take on the problematic fusion of (quasi-)humanitarian and control-oriented politics that characterizes today’s global migration and refugee management…. [and] the authors offer a well-informed insight into how resettlement has been conceptualized and reformed in recent decades.” • Martin Geiger, Carleton University

Liliana Lyra Jubilut holds a PhD in International Law from Universidade de São Paulo, and an LLM in International Legal Studies from NYU School of Law. Currently, she is Professor of the Postgraduate Programme in Law at Universidade Católica de Santos and a Member of the IOM Migration Research Leaders Syndicate. She has been working with refugees’ issues since 1999.

Kristin Bergtora Sandvik is a Research Professor in Humanitarian Studies at PRIO and a Professor at the Faculty of Law at the University of Oslo. Her work has appeared in Polar: Political and Legal Anthropology Review, Refugee Survey Quarterly, the International Journal of Refugee Law, Disasters, the ICRC Review, Third World Quarterly, and the Law and Society Review.