Forced Migration and Scientific Change

Forced Migration and Scientific Change

Author: Mitchell G. Ash

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2002-06-06

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 9780521522786

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Examines the impact on the scienctific world of the forced exodus of Jewish intellectuals from Nazi Germany.


Climate Change, Forced Migration, and International Law

Climate Change, Forced Migration, and International Law

Author: Jane McAdam

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2012-02-23

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 0199587086

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This is a key study into whether 'climate change refugees' are protected by international law. It examines the reasons why people do or do not move; how far climate change is a trigger for movement; and whether traditional international responses, such as creating new treaties and new institutions, are appropriate solutions in this context.


Environment, Forced Migration and Social Vulnerability

Environment, Forced Migration and Social Vulnerability

Author: Tamer Afifi

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2010-08-05

Total Pages: 271

ISBN-13: 364212416X

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This book is one of the outputs of the conference on ‘Environmental Change, Forced Migration, and Social Vulnerability’ (EFMSV) held in Bonn in October 2008. Migration is one of the oldest adaptation measures of humanity. Indeed, without migration the multitude of civilizations and interactions between them – peaceful and otherwise – would be hard to imagine. The United Nations (UN)-led global dialogue on migration is a clear sign that governments and the specialized UN agencies and bodies have recognized the need to view, govern, manage, and facilitate migration; to mitigate its negative effects; and to capitalize on the positive ones. It is a common expectation among experts that environmentally induced migration will further increase in the decades to come. Hence, next to the political, economic, ethnic, social, financial, humanitarian, and security aspects of migration, the environmental component should urgently be considered in the ongoing international dialogue on migration. This need is also a challenge. Without appropriate scientific knowledge, assessment, definitions, and classifications, the intergovernmental frameworks would not be able to deal with these complex phenomena. The Five-Pronged-Approach as formulated by the United Nations University (UNU) may serve as a framework to identify the additional dimensions of this challenge next to – and actually simultaneously with – the scientific one.


Demography of Refugee and Forced Migration

Demography of Refugee and Forced Migration

Author: Graeme Hugo

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2017-12-19

Total Pages: 323

ISBN-13: 3319671472

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This authoritative and comprehensive edited volume presents current research on how demography can contribute to generating scientific knowledge and evidence concerning refugees and forced migration, developing evidence based policy recommendations on protection for forced migrants and reception of refugees, and revealing the determinants and consequences of migration for origin and destination regions and communities. Refugee and other forced migrations have increased substantially in scale, complexity and diversity in recent decades. These changes challenge traditional approaches in response to refugee and other forced migration situations, and protection of refugees. Demography has an important contribution to make in this analytic space. While other disciplines (especially anthropology, law, geography, political science and international relations) have made major contributions to refugee and forced migration studies, demography has been less present with most research focusing on issues of refugee mortality and morbidity. This book specifies the range of topics for which a demographic approach is highly appropriate, and identifies findings of demographic research which can contribute to ever more effective policy making in this important arena of human welfare and international policy.


Refugees in International Relations

Refugees in International Relations

Author: Alexander Betts

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13: 019958074X

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Drawing together the work and ideas of a combination of the world's leading and emerging International Relations scholars, Refugees in International Relations considers what ideas from International Relations can offer our understanding of the international politics of forced migration. The insights draw from across the theoretical spectrum of International Relations from realism to critical theory to feminism, covering issues including international cooperation, security, and the international political economy.


Forced Migration in the History of 20th Century Neuroscience and Psychiatry

Forced Migration in the History of 20th Century Neuroscience and Psychiatry

Author: Frank W. Stahnisch

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-09-18

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 1351741403

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The forced migration of neuroscientists, both during and after the Second World War, is of growing interest to international scholars. Of particular interest is how the long-term migration of scientists and physicians has affected both the academic migrants and their receiving environments. As well as the clash between two different traditions and systems, this migration forced scientists and physicians to confront foreign institutional, political, and cultural frameworks when trying to establish their own ways of knowledge generation, systems of logic, and cultural mentalities. The twentieth century has been called the century of war and forced-migration, since it witnessed two devastating world wars, prompting a massive exodus that included many neuroscientists and psychiatrists. Fascism in Italy and Spain beginning in the 1920s, Nazism in Germany and Austria between the 1930s and 1940s, and the impact of the Soviet occupation of Eastern Europe all forced more than two thousand researchers with prior education in neurology, psychiatry, and the basic brain research disciplines to leave their scientific and academic home institutions. This edited volume, comprising of thirteen chapters written by international specialists, reflects on the complex dimensions of intellectual migration in the neurosciences and illustrates them by using relevant case studies, biographies, and surveys. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of the History of the Neurosciences.


Migration and Climate Change

Migration and Climate Change

Author: Oli Brown

Publisher: UN

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 72

ISBN-13:

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This report focuses on the possible future scenarios for climate change, natural disasters and migration and development, looking to increase awareness and find answers to the challenges that lie ahead. It states that even though it is defined as a growing crisis, the consequences of climate change for human population are unclear and unpredictable. The study points out that scientific basis for climate change is increasingly well established, and confirms that current predictions as to the "carrying capacity" in large parts of the world will be compromised by climate change.


Environmental Change, Forced Displacement and International Law

Environmental Change, Forced Displacement and International Law

Author: Isabel M. Borges

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-12-07

Total Pages: 245

ISBN-13: 1351361791

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This book explores the increasing concern over the extent to which those suffering from forced cross-border displacement as a result of environmental change are protected under international human rights law. Formally they are not entitled to admission or stay in a third state country, a situation that has been identified as an international "legal protection gap". The book seeks to provide answers to two basic questions: whether and to what extent existing international law protects cross-border environmental displacement, and whether and how existing formalized regional complementary protection standards can interpretively solidify and conceptualize protection for cross-border environmental displacement. The discussion outlines that the protection of the human person is not only an ex post facto obligation of states, but must be increasingly seen as an ex ante one. The analysis further suggests that the European Union regionally orientated protection regime can help states to consolidate an evolving protection paradigm of proactive and reactive measures being erected at the international level. It can also narrow the identified legal protection gaps. In so doing, it helps states to reconceptualise protection as a holistic and dynamic enterprise. This book will be of great interest to academics in law, political science and human rights, policy makers and civil society organisations both at national and international level.


Forced Migration and Global Processes

Forced Migration and Global Processes

Author: Francois Crepeau

Publisher: Lexington Books

Published: 2006-03-28

Total Pages: 425

ISBN-13: 0739155059

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Forced Migration and Global Processes considers the crossroads of forced migration with three global trends: development, human rights, and security. This expert collection studies these complex interactions and aims to help determine what solutions may alleviate most of the human suffering involved in forced migrations.


Migration and Climate Change

Migration and Climate Change

Author: Étienne Piguet

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2011-06-23

Total Pages: 463

ISBN-13: 1107014859

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This book provides an authoritative analysis of the impact of climate change on migration.