Protracted Refugee Situations

Over two-thirds of the world's refugees are trapped in protracted refugee situations, struggling to survive in remote and insecure parts of the world. This volume, bringing together a collection of eminent scholars and practitioners, presents a range of analyses and cases of protracted refugee situations. It explores the sources, nature and consequences of these situations, and the record of the international community's attempts to find durable solutions. On this basis, the volume presents new thinking to address protracted refugee situations which incorporates security and development - as well as humanitarian - actors and attempts to reconcile the policy difficulties which have obstructed progress for many years.

Gil Loescher is a visiting professor at the Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford, and emeritus professor of political science at the University of Notre Dame. James Milner is an assistant professor of political science at Carleton University. Edward Newman is a senior lecturer in the Department of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Birmingham. Gary Troeller's recent appointments include co-chair of the Inter-university Committee on International Migration, and visiting lecturer in the Department of Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is a former senior official with UNHCR.