New Issue of RSQ & Related Launch Event

The latest issue of Refugee Survey Quarterly (RSQ) has been published. The theme is "Improving Attention to Internal Displacement Globally." Note that all 22 articles are freely available - 20 are accessible for a limited period of three months, and two are open access. Contents of vol. 39, no. 4, Dec. 2020 include:

• Improving Attention to Internal Displacement Globally: An Introduction to the Special Issue [free full-text]
• The Role of Law and Policy in Fostering Responsibility and Accountability of Governments Towards Internally Displaced Persons [free full-text]
• Enhancing State-to-State Dialogue on Internal Displacement: Current Global Fora and Future Prospects [free full-text]
• Incentivising Political Will for the Response to Internal Displacement: The Role of NGOs in Latin America [free full-text]
• Triple Nexus Implementation and Implications for Durable Solutions for Internal Displacement: On Paper and in Practice [open access]
• Financing Opportunities for Durable Solutions to Internal Displacement: Building on Current Thinking and Practice [free full-text]
• When Internal Displacement Meets Urbanisation: Making Cities Work for Internally Displaced People [free full-text]
• A Tale of Two Cities - IDPs Plan for Their Durable Solutions in Darfur [free full-text]
• Why Displaced Farmers Do Not Return to Agriculture? Lessons from Iraq [free full-text]
• Success Twinned by Challenge: An Urban IDP Response in Ethiopia [free full-text]
• The Upward Spiral Towards Local Integration of IDPs: Agency and Economics in the Democratic Republic of the Congo [open access]
• The Impacts of Internal Displacement on Local Communities: Examples from Ethiopia and Somalia [free full-text]
• Community Resilience and the Return of Iraqi IDPs with Perceived Affiliation to the Islamic State [free full-text] [ResearchGate]
• A Human Rights-based Approach to Internal Displacement in the Context of Disasters and Climate Change [free full-text]
• Technological Disasters and Displacement in Developed World: What Should We Learn from Fukushima IDPs? [free full-text]
• Displacing Evacuations: A Blind Spot in Disaster Displacement Research [free full-text] [SSRN]
• Internal Displacement and COVID-19: Taking Stock and Looking Forward [free full-text]
• Displacements in the Philippines in a Post-COVID-19 World: A Recovery Focus [free full-text]
• Should Internal Migrants Who Cannot Return Home due to COVID-19 Be Treated as Disaster IDPs? Lessons from India [free full-text]
• The Politics of IDP Data [free full-text]
• The Question of Data in Internal Displacement Law-and-Policy-making [free full-text]
• Internal Displacement, Internal Migration, and Refugee Flows: Connecting the Dots [free full-text]

*UPDATE (July 2022): As of this writing, three articles remain freely available, and another two are open access.

An online launch of the special issue will take place on 21 January 2021. Organized by the Refugee Law Initiative's Internal Displacement Research Programme, the Zoom roundtable will draw "on the Special Issue to debate the state of research on internal displacement: Why is there so little research on the topic? Why does that matter for academic debate and practical action on IDPs? The event speaks directly to IDP and related fields, including refugees, development and peacebuilding."

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