Where is internal displacement within migration research? Launching the Oxford University Press Handbook of Internal Displacement

About this talk

Given the prevalence of internal displacement across the world, its absence in research agendas, funding calls, and academic institutions is notable and problematic. The recently launched Oxford University Press Handbook of Internal Displacement seeks to change that. This event brings together three of the Handbook’s contributors with an interdisciplinary group of migration scholars. Together we will reflect on the relevance of studying internal displacement for informing a wide array of social, political and economic phenomena both within and beyond the field of migration/mobility studies. We will ask how research on internal displacement relates to work on refugees, and explore a few unique aspects of internal displacement, such as processes of marginalisation and key challenges faced when conducting research in IDP contexts. This hybrid event welcomes discussion and Q&A with researchers from across Oxford University and more broadly focused on issues of internal displacement, (forced) migration and mobility studies.

Speakers

Chair/moderator: Carlos Vargas-Silva, Professor in Migration Studies, Centre on Migration, Policy and Society, University of Oxford and Fellow of Kellogg College

Panellist: Megan Bradley, Professor, Political Science and Institute for the Study of International Development, McGill University (Co-editor of the Handbook and author of: Internal Displacement, Ethnicity and Marginalization with Rabia Salihi)

Panellist: Roger Zetter, Emeritus Professor of Refugee Studies, Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford (author of: Internal Displacement, Refugees, and Forced Migration Studies)

Panellist: Melissa Weihmayer, Researcher, Centre on Migration, Policy and Society, University of Oxford (Handbook coordinator and author of: Research Methodologies and Challenges in Internal Displacement Contexts with Nassim Majidi)

Discussant: Loren Landau, Professor of Migration and Development, Oxford Department of International Development

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