Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh is Reader in Human Geography and Co-Director of the Migration Research Unit at the Department of Geography, University College London. Before joining UCL, Elena held positions as Director of the International Summer School of Forced Migration, Lecturer and Senior Research Officer at the University of Oxford. Her research examines the intersections between gender and religion in experiences and representations of and responses to, forced migration, and she has conducted extensive fieldwork in refugee camps and cities in the Middle East, North Africa, the Caribbean and Europe. Her publications include The Ideal Refugees: Gender, Islam and the Sahrawi Politics of Survival (2014) and South-South Educational Migration, Humanitarianism and Development: Views from the Caribbean, North Africa and the Middle East (2015). She was awarded the Lisa Gilad Prize in Refugee Studies in 2013, and a Philip Leverhulme Prize in 2015.

Gil Loescher is a long-established expert on international refugee policy. For over 25 years, he was Professor of International Relations at the University of Notre Dame in the United States and was a visiting fellow at Princeton University, LSE, Oxford and the Department of Humanitarian Affairs at the US State Department in Washington, D.C. In recent years he has been Senior Research Fellow, Centre for International Studies, University of Oxford, Senior Fellow for Forced Migration and International Security at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London and a senior researcher at the European Council on Refugees and Exiles. He is Visiting Professor at the Refugee Studies Centre, Queen Elizabeth House, University of Oxford.

Katy Long's research examines the politics of migration in conflict and crisis affected areas, focusing in particular on refugee movements and international "solutions" to forced migration crises. Katy has worked extensively with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, particularly in considering how access to migration channels might contribute to resolving refugees' exile. She is Visiting Scholar at Stanford University and Honorary Fellow, University of Edinburgh, having previously held posts at the University of Edinburgh, LSE and the University of Oxford.

Nando Sigona is Senior Lecturer and Deputy Director of the Institute for Research into Superdiversity at the University of Birmingham. He was previously a Senior Research Officer at the Refugee Studies Centre and Senior Researcher at the Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS) at the University of Oxford. His research interests include statelessness, diasporas and the state; Romani politics and anti-Gypsyism; illegality and the everyday experiences of undocumented migrant children and young people; and crisis, governance and the governmentality of forced migration in the EU.

• 1: Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, Gil Loescher, Katy Long and Nando Sigona: Introduction: Refugee and Forced Migration Studies in Transition


• Part I: Approaches: Old and New


• 2: Jerome Elie: Histories of Refugee and Forced Migration Studies


• 3: Guy Goodwin Gil: International Law, Refugees and Forced Migration


• 4: Matthew Gibney: Political Theory, Ethics and Forced Migration


• 5: Alexander Betts: International Relations and Forced Migration


• 6: Dawn Chatty: Anthropology and Forced Migration


• 7: Finn Stepputat and Ninna Nyberg Sørensen: Sociology and Forced Migration


• 8: Karen Jacobsen: Livelihoods and Economics in Forced Migration


• 9: Michael Collyer: Geographies of Forced Migration


• Part II: Shifting Spaces and Scenarios of Displacement


• 10: Oliver Bakewell: Encampment and Self-settlement


• 11: Loren Landau: Urban Refugees and IDPs


• 12: James Milner: Protracted Refugee Situations


• 13: Walter Kalin: Internal Displacement


• 14: Nick Van Hear: Refugees, Diasporas and Transnationalism


• 15: Stephan Scheel and Vicki Squire: Forced Migrants as Illegal Migrants


• Part III: Legal and Institutional Responses to Forced Migration


• 16: Jane McAdam: Human Rights and Forced Migration


• 17: Gil Loescher: UNHCR and Forced Migration


• 18: Susan Akram: UNRWA and Forced Migration


• 19: Randall Hansen: State Controls: Borders, Refugees and Citizenship


• 20: Anne Hammerstad: Securitisation and Forced Migration


• 21: Volker Turk and Rebecca Dowd: Protection Gaps


• 22: Alice Edwards and Laura Van Waas: Statelessness


• 23: Simon Russell and Vicky Tennant: Humanitarian Reform: from Co-ordination to Clusters and Beyond


• 24: Michael Barnett: Refugees and Humanitarianism


• Part IV: Root Causes of Displacement


• 25: Sarah Lischer: Conflict and Crisis-induced Displacement


• 26: Christopher McDowell: Development-induced Displacement


• 27: Roger Zetter and James Morrissey: The Environment-mobility Nexus


• 28: Bridget Anderson: Trafficking and Smuggling


• Part V: Lived Experiences and Representations of Forced Migration


• 29: Nando Sigona: Memories, Narratives and Representations of Forced Migration


• 30: Jason Hart: Children and Forced Migration


• 31: Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh: Gender and Forced Migration


• 32: Claudio Bolzman: Older Displaced Persons


• 33: Mansha Mirza: Disability and Forced Migration


• 34: Alaistair Ager: Health and Forced Migration


• 35: David Hollenbach: Religion and Forced Migration


• 36: Terence Wright: Media, Refugees and other Forced Migrants


• Part VI: Rethinking Durable Solutions


• 37: Katy Long: Rethinking Durable Solutions


• 38: Lucy Hovil: Local Integration


• 39: Laura Hammond: "Voluntary" Repatriation and Reintegration


• 40: Joanne Van Selm: Resettlement


• 41: Martin Gottwald: Burden Sharing and Refugee Protection


• Part VII: Regional Studies: Current Realities and Future Challenges


• 42: Marion Fresia: Forced Migration in West Africa


• 43: Jonathan Crush and Abel Chikanda: Forced Migration in Southern Africa


• 44: Gaim Kibreab: Forced Migration in East Africa and the Great Lakes


• 45: Sari Hanafi: Forced Migration in the Middle East and North Africa


• 46: Alessandro Monsutti and Bayram Balci: Forced Migration in Broader Central Asia


• 47: Paula Banerjee: Forced Migration in South Asia


• 48: Kirsten McConnahie: Forced Migration in South East Asia and East Asia


• 49: Anne McNevin: Forced Migration in Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific


• 50: Jose H. Fischel De Andrade: Forced Migration in South America


• 51: Megan Bradley: Forced Migration in Central America and the Caribbean


• 52: Susan Martin: Forced Migration in North America


• 53: Roland Bank: Forced Migration in Europe