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Catching Fire: Containing Forced Migration in a Volatile World

Name: Catching Fire: Containing Forced Migration in a Volatile World
Author: Nicholas Van Hear
ISBN: 9780739112441

by Nicholas Van Hear

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Overview

Catching Fire provides the first in-depth analysis of political and humanitarian catastrophes in which forced migration characterizes the complexity of both the emergency and the response. A host of expert contributors examine forced migration both within borders and beyond borders, exploring the varied circumstances that lead citizens to become refugees and evaluating the impact of relief programs on affected populations.

About the Author, Nicholas Van Hear

Nicholas Van Hear is a senior researcher at the Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS), University of Oxford, prior to which he held research positions at the Refugee Studies Centre in Oxford and at the Danish Institute for International Studies in Copenhagen. Christopher McDowell is a Senior Lecturer in the International Policy Institute at King's College London and Director of the Information Centre about Asylum and Refugees (ICAR).

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Editorials

Professor Gil Loescher

Catching Fire deals with some of the most difficult cases of forced displacement in the world today. Leading experts outline how these crises came about and why they continue to persist. This book should be recommended reading for policymakers, practitioners, and students of forced migration.

Roberta Cohen

A penetrating analysis of what goes wrong in the national and international response to humanitarian emergencies and how best to remedy problems in the field and at headquarters. It should greatly assist policymakers and practitioners in better understanding the dynamics of forced migration and designing comprehensive approaches to address the plight of the world’s millions of forcibly uprooted people.

Dr. Jeff Crisp

Based on extensive research in six of the world's most complex recent humanitarian emergencies, Catching Fire provides a particularly incisive analysis of the international community's response to the problems of armed conflict and human displacement.

H-Genocide, March 2009 - Benjamin Lieberman

Catching Fire makes clear the terrible burdens posed by forced migration as well as the difficulties responding to forced migration.... Will likely prove of most interest to practitioners and theorists concerned with refugees and internally displaced persons.... A clear overview of the complexity of the complexity of modern forced migration.

Prof. Thomas G. Weiss

A wide-ranging and timely collection of case studies about the international humanitarian system’s inadequacies in aiding and protecting the diverse categories of war victims who are forced to move. This book is necessary grounding for future thinking about changing that system.