Learning from the past: protracted displacement in the post-World War II period
Abstract: This working paper examines the history of the search for solutions to protracted displacement. Focusing specifically on the Horn of Africa, East Africa, the Middle East and South Asia, the paper analyses past policy responses that explicitly or implicitly address situations of extended exile. In addition, the paper examines the potential of translocal mobility and connectivity as an individual- or household-level solution to displacement. The concern to find solutions for long-term displacement situations has been a key driver for the evolution of the international refugee protection regime ever since its initiation in the interwar period. Yet, only more recently have these efforts crystallised around the notions of 'durable solutions' and 'protracted displacement'. The emergence of the latter concept in the 1990s reflects challenges arising from the globalisation of the international refugee protection regime, the massive growth of displacement in the Global South and the increas
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Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
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Online-Ressource, XII, 47 S.
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Englisch
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Veröffentlichungsversion
begutachtet
- Bibliographic citation
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TRAFIG Working Paper ; Bd. 2
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Veröffentlichung
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Mannheim
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SSOAR, GESIS – Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften e.V.
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2020
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Veröffentlichung
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Bonn
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Bonn International Center for Conversion (BICC)
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2020
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Bonn International Center for Conversion (BICC)
- URN
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urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-68827-6
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Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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15.08.2025, 7:37 AM CEST
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Associated
- Kraler, Albert
- Fourer, Margarita
- Knudsen, Are John
- Kwaks, Juul
- Mielke, Katja
- Noack, Marion
- Tobin, Sarah A.
- Janssens Wilson, Catherina
- Bonn International Center for Conversion (BICC)
- SSOAR, GESIS – Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften e.V.
Time of origin
- 2020