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Forced Migration and Refugee Settings from an Anthropological Perspective

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In 2015, more than 65.3 million people were forcibly displaced worldwide due to conflict, disaster and insecurity, with 40.8 million people internally displaced within their own countries. This chapter explores what forced migration means from an anthropological perspective, both within the framework of humanitarian action, as well as from the perspective of affected communities.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (2016), Global Trends, Forced Displacement in 2015, http://www.unhcr.org/576408cd7.pdf, p. 2.

  2. 2.

    Eriksen (2010), pp. 299 and 319.

  3. 3.

    IASFM, http://www.efms.uni-bamberg.de/iasfm/mission.htm.

  4. 4.

    FMO, http://www.forcedmigration.org/about/whatisfm.

  5. 5.

    Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement (E/CN.4/1998/53/Add.2), 1998, Principles and Scope.

  6. 6.

    FMO, http://www.forcedmigration.org/about/whatisfm.

  7. 7.

    International Summer School in Forced Migration Participant’s Handbook, Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford 2010, pp. 16–17.

  8. 8.

    Molles (2013), p. 17.

  9. 9.

    Colson (2003), pp. 14–15.

  10. 10.

    Daniel (2002).

  11. 11.

    Id, p. 279.

  12. 12.

    Sliep (2009), p. 7.

  13. 13.

    Healing communities programme of the NGOs War Trauma Foundation and Centre Ubuntu.

  14. 14.

    Colson (2003), p. 8.

  15. 15.

    Anderson (1983).

  16. 16.

    Agier (2002), pp. 317–341 and 318.

  17. 17.

    Id. pp. 322–323.

  18. 18.

    Malkki (2002), pp. 351–360.

  19. 19.

    Agier (2002), p. 337.

  20. 20.

    Bauman (2002), pp. 343–349.

  21. 21.

    Malkki (2002).

  22. 22.

    de Waal (1997), pp. 623–639.

  23. 23.

    de Waal (2002).

  24. 24.

    Harrell-Bond (2002), pp. 51–85.

  25. 25.

    Based on Reiffers et al. (2013), pp. 169–179, http://www.interventionjournal.com/sites/default/files/Psychosocial_support_for_Bhutanese_refugees_in.5.pdf.

  26. 26.

    Hutt (1996), pp. 397–420.

  27. 27.

    Adelman (2008).

  28. 28.

    Sharma (2009), www.ksl.edu.np.

  29. 29.

    Loescher and Milner (2005).

  30. 30.

    Luitel et al. (2009).

  31. 31.

    Ibid.

  32. 32.

    Schinina (2011).

  33. 33.

    Jordans and Sharma (2004), pp. 171–180.

  34. 34.

    Reiffers et al. (2013).

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Reiffers, R. (2018). Forced Migration and Refugee Settings from an Anthropological Perspective. In: Heintze, HJ., Thielbörger, P. (eds) International Humanitarian Action. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-14454-2_17

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