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1	The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine more books like this by Ilan Pappe add to wishlist Since the Holocaust, it has been almost impossible to hide large-scale crimes against humanity. In our communicative world, few modern catastrophes are concealed from the public eye. And yet, Ilan Pappe unveils, one such crime has been erased from the global public memory: the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians in 1948. The pervasive denial of ... see all copies from $8.91! new only from $8.91! \| SVS
2	Exiles and Pioneers: Eastern Indians in the Trans-Mississippi West more books like this by John P Bowes add to wishlist Exiles and Pioneers analyzes the removal and post-removal histories of Shawnee, Delaware, Wyandot, and Potawatomi Indians. The book argues that the experience of these eastern Indians from the late 1700s to the 1860s was at its core a struggle over geographic and political place within the expanding United States. Even as American expansion ... see all copies from $6.98! new only from $6.98! \| SVS
3	Cannibal Island: Death in a Siberian Gulag more books like this by Nicolas Werth, Steven Rendall (Translator), Jan T Gross (Foreword by) add to wishlist During the spring of 1933, Stalin's police rounded up nearly one hundred thousand people as part of the Soviet regime's "cleansing" of Moscow and Leningrad and deported them to Siberia. Many of the victims were sent to labor camps, but ten thousand of them were dumped in a remote wasteland and left to fend for themselves. "Cannibal Island" reveals ... see all copies from $23.30! new only from $23.30! \| SVS
4	Gender, Conflict and Migration more books like this by Navnita Chadha Behera (Editor) add to wishlist Gender, Conflict and Migration takes up the crucial issue of the gendered character of conflict-driven migration. The contributors highlight the importance of taking gender seriously in migration research to improve both migration theory and conflict research. They also provide critical insights into how to shore up women's rights in conflict and ... see all copies from $19.40! new only from $19.40! \| first editions \| SVS
5	Internal Displacement in South Asia: The Relevance of the Un's Guiding Principles more books like this by Paula Banerjee (Editor), Sabyasachi Basu Ray Chaudhury (Editor), Samir Kumar Das (Editor) add to wishlist This book deals with the situation of internally displaced people - those who have been forcibly displaced by natural disasters or development projects. Each chapter is a case study authored by specialists from seven countries - India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Mayanmar and Afghanistan. The latter two countries have been included for ... see all copies from $12.19! new only from $15.99! \| first editions
6	Development and Displacement more books like this by Dr. Jenny Robinson (Editor) add to wishlist Development and Displacement draws together a number of emergent challenges to the practices and theories of development in the contemporary world, associated with forms of displacement. Starting with the headline-grabbing emergencies associated with forced displacement, both international and within states, the book moves on to explore the often ... see all copies from $2.53! new only from $2.76! \| first editions
7	Can Compensation Prevent Impoverishment?: Reforming Resettlement Through Investments and Benefit-Sharing more books like this by Michael M Cernea (Editor), Hari Mohan Mathur (Editor) add to wishlist This volume provides a new impetus to search for practical solutions to forced displacement. It brings to the fore new ideas and policy recommendations which hope to overcome shortcomings or omissions in current thinking, policies and practices. see all copies from $14.98! new only from $14.98! \| first editions
8	State Identities and the Homogenisation of Peoples more books like this by Heather Rae, Steve Smith (Editor), Thomas J Biersteker (Editor) add to wishlist Why are forced displacement, ethnic cleansing and genocide an enduring feature of state systems? In this ground-breaking book, Heather Rae locates these practices of 'pathological homogenisation' in the processes of state building. Political elites have repeatedly used cultural resources to redefine bounded political communities as exclusive moral ... see all copies from $22.98! new only from $32.48! \| first editions
9	Exodus Within Borders more books like this by David A Korn add to wishlist The end of the millennium finds some 25 million people worldwide displaced by civil wars or violations of human rights, but still in their own countries and with no redress. This humanitarian challenge examined here poses a threat to security, stability and economic well-being of all continents. see all copies from $3.58! new only from $27.92! \| first editions
10	Refugees in a Global Era more books like this by Philip Marfleet add to wishlist This topical new book offers an authoritative analysis of forced migration in the age of globalization. It looks critically at histories of migration, exploring the constructed nature of the refugee. The book then goes on to consider the changing patterns of migration and the refugee experience of displacement, flight and the search for asylum, ... see all copies from $12.41! new only from $35.85! \| SVS
11 view cover	Domicide more books like this by J Douglas Porteous, Sandra E Smith add to wishlist Media reports describing the destruction of people's homes, for reasons ranging from ethnic persecution to the perceived need for a new airport or highway, are all too familiar. The planned destruction of homes affects millions of people globally; places destroyed range in scale from single dwellings to entire homelands. Domicide tells how and why ... see all copies from $10.27! new only from $22.01! \| first editions
12 view cover	The Forsaken People: Case Studies of the Internally Displaced more books like this by Roberta Cohen (Editor), Francis Mading Deng (Editor) add to wishlist The coerced displacement of people within the borders of their own countries by armed conflicts, internal strife, and systematic violations of human rights has developed throughout various regions of the world. The companion volume to Masses in Flight, this book contains case studies and offers recommendations to the international community to ... see all copies from $2.95! new only from $25.95! \| SVS
13 view cover	Caught Between Borders: Response Strategies of the Internally Displaced more books like this by Marc Vincent, pro (Editor), Birgitte Refslund Srensen (Editor), Marc Vincet (Editor) add to wishlist Internally displaced persons are those who have been forced to flee their homes as a result of war, natural or man-made disaster, or generalized violence, and who do not cross an internationally recognized border. This work covers methods that people have evolved for coping in such situations. Very little is known about how people respond to the ... see all copies from $19.95! new only from $42.14!
14 view cover	Involuntary Resettlement: Comparative Perspectives more books like this by Robert Picciotto (Editor), Warren Van Wicklin (Editor) add to wishlist This volume builds upon earlier studies and field work to offer a broad look at dam-building projects in six countries and to review the outcome of Bank policy, learn from experience and assess outside criticism. see all copies from $5.45! new only from $24.98! \| first editions
15 view cover	Ethnic cleansing more books like this by Andrew Bell-Fialkoff add to wishlist Andrew Bell-Fialkloff explains the history of ethnic cleansing showing how varied criteria have been used to isolate and destroy previously accepted or unnoticed groups. 'Cleansing' based on race, gender, class, sexual preference and religion, has been a constant evil in world history. The need to understand its emergence in the wake of communism ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.39! \| SVS
16 view cover	Masses in Flight: The Global Crisis of Internal Displacement more books like this by Roberta Cohen, Francis Mading Deng add to wishlist Whereas refugees crossing national borders benefit from an established system of international protection, those who are displaced internally suffer from an absence of legal or institutional bases for their protection and assistance from the international community. This book analyzes the causes and consequences of population displacement, ... see all copies from $7.77! new only from $25.95! \| SVS
17 view cover	Managing Resettlement in India: Approaches, Issues, Experiences more books like this by Hari Mohan Mathur (Editor) add to wishlist This volume of essay looks at how Indian society takes care of the people whom development and large scale infrastructure projects have displaced. Displacement causes migration, impoverishment, and great upheaval in the social fabric. In a word, displacement hurts. The 14 essays in this volume identify significant solutions towards resettlement, ... see all copies from $18.98! new only from $18.98! \| first editions
18 view cover	Networks of Empire: Forced Migration in the Dutch East India Company more books like this by Kerry Ward add to wishlist Ward argues that the Dutch East India Company empire manifested itself through multiple networks that amalgamated spatially and over time into an imperial web whose sovereignty was effectively created and maintained but always partial and contingent. Networks of Empire proposes that early modern empires were comprised of durable networks of trade, ... see all copies from $71.50! new only from $71.50!
19 view cover	The Uprooted: Improving Humanitarian Responses to Forced Migration more books like this by Susan F Martin, Patricia Weiss Fagen, Andrew Schoenholtz add to wishlist The Uprooted is the first volume to methodically examine the progress and persistent shortcomings of the current humanitarian regime. The authors, all experts in the field of forced migration, describe the organizational, political, and conceptual shortcomings that are creating the gaps and inefficiencies of international and national agencies to ... see all copies from $10.69! new only from $32.80!
20 view cover	Engendering Forced Migration: Theory and Practice more books like this by Doreen Indra (Editor) add to wishlist As the millennium approaches, war, political oppression, desperate poverty, environmental degradation an d disasters are increasing the world''s millions of forced im migrants. This text provides gendered case studies from arou nd the world. ' see all copies from $5.78! new only from $19.54! \| SVS
21 view cover	Against Their Will: The History and Geography of Forced Migrations in the USSR more books like this by Pavel Polian add to wishlist This work aims to examine the history of forced and semi-voluntary population movements within or organized by the Soviet Union. Contents range from the early 1920s to the rehabilitation of repressed nationalities in the 1990s. see all copies from $38.57! new only from $38.57!
22 view cover	After Involuntary Migration: The Political Economy of Refugee Encampments more books like this by Milica Zarkovic Bookman add to wishlist Some 35 million involuntarily displaced people now live in refugee encampments. Many have been encamped for decades in these "de facto" permanent settlements. The encampments are a global phenomenon with over 90 countries hosting camps with over 1000 inhabitants, cutting across geographical regions, levels of development, and political and ... see all copies from $14.23! new only from $26.95! \| SVS
23 view cover	Forced Migration in Eastern Africa: Democratization, Structural Adjustment, and Refugees more books like this by Cassandra Rachel Veney add to wishlist This study enriches understanding of East Africa's refugee situation by examining the conditions that gave rise to it and how the refugees themselves sought to reconstruct their lives. Focusing on the 1990s, Veney compares Kenya and Tanzania, two nations that did not generate many refugees, but become important hosts for the general region. Veney ... see all copies from $21.97! new only from $72.86! \| SVS
24	The Bikinians : a study in forced migration more books like this by Robert C. Kiste add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! signed copies \| first editions
25 view cover	The Old Bridge: The Third Balkan War and the Age of the Refugee more books like this by Christopher Merrill add to wishlist Nowhere is the refugee problem more apparent than in the former Yugoslavia. On his five journeys to the area between August 1992 and September 1994, Christopher Merrill has witnessed firsthand the plight of the refugees - men and women whose stories illustrate their urgent needs - and the international community's inability to meet those needs. see all copies from $1.99! signed copies \| first editions \| SVS

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