28 July 2006

New Forced Migration Books

A brief list of books recently published:

Bayefsky, Anne F. (ed.), Human Rights and Refugees, Internally Displaced Persons and Migrant Workers: Essays in Memory of Joan Fitzpatrick and Arthur Helton, Brill (2006) [publisher site] [other books in Refugees and Human Rights series]
- Compilation of essays from 28 contributors on a wide range of forced migration issues. Dedicated to two leading advocates in the field. (Read more on Arthur Helton and on Joan Fitzpatrick.)

Hopgood, Stephen, Keepers of the Flame: Understanding Amnesty International, Cornell University Press (2006) [publisher site]
- History of Amnesty International over 45 years. Also by this author is an article on AI recently posted on OpenDemocracy.net.

Muggah, Robert (ed.), No Refuge: The Crisis of Refugee Militarization in Africa, Zed Books (July 2006) [publisher site]
- Looks at refugee/IDP militarization in Guinea, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda.

Temple, Bogusia and Rhetta Moran (eds.), Doing Research with Refugees: Issues and Guidelines, Policy Press (June 2006) [publisher site]
- Different articles "explore methodological issues relating to the involvement of refugees in both service evaluation and development and research more generally."

Van Arsdale, Peter W., Forced to Flee: Human Rights and Human Wrongs in Refugee Homelands, Lexington Books (August 2006) [publisher site] [other books in Program in Migration and Refugee Studies series]
- Looks at causes of flight.

Weiss, Thomas G. and David A. Korn, Internal Displacement: Conceptualization and its Consequences, Routledge (June 2006) [publisher site]
- "[T]races the normative, legal, institutional, and political responses to the challenges of assisting and protecting internally displaced persons (IDPs)."

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