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2018 Pecs J. Int'l & Eur. L. 125 (2018)
The Oxford Handbook of Refugee and Forced Migration Studies

handle is hein.journals/pjiel2018 and id is 127 raw text is: P6cs Journal of International and European Law - 2018/I Review Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, Gil Loescher, Katy Long, and Nando Sigona (eds): The Oxford Handbook of Refugee and Forced Migration Studies AMENI MEHREZ PhD Student, doctoral school of political science at Corvinus University of Budapest The Oxford Handbook of Refugee and Forced Migration Studies' aims at providing a comprehensive overview of the major scholarly works in the ever-expanding field of refugee and forced migration studies. This 53-chapter volume (including the introduction) sheds light on the most recent debates and challenges that have involved both academics and practitioners (lawyers, activists, etc.) in this field and promotes an interdisciplinary approach to the study of displacement, migration, and migrants' rights. It engages with a diverse range of topics from legal studies, political science, international relations and even presents some regional case studies. The book is a useful and inspirational source for both students and scholars who wish to explore new research directions in this field. This edited volume has an excellent and coherent structure. It is structured into seven parts: Approaches: Old and New (Part I), Shifting Spaces and Scenarios of Displacement (Part II), Legal and Institutional Responses to Forced Migration (Part III), Root Causes of Displacement (Part IV), Lived Experiences and Representations of Forced Migration (Part V), Rethinking Durable Solutions (Part VI), and finally Regional Studies (Part VII). It begins by addressing the history of the field of migration studies. Chapter 2 outlines the development of refugee and forced migrants studies from a Europe-centric approach in the 1920s and 1930s to a more global approach in the 1980s. It then provides an up-to-date interdisciplinary approach to the field of forced migration as it covers topics from the perspectives of political science (chapter 4), sociology (chapter 7), international relations (chapter 5), anthropology (chapter 6), geography (chapter 9), and security studies (chapter 21). For legal studies researchers, this handbook has a lot to offer concerning the legal approach to refugees and forced migrants. Chapter 3 is a very good introduction to the most important legal tools in the international law of refugee protection. It outlines a short history of the first initiatives to give refugees legal protection (International Refugee Organization, replaced later by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees - UNHCR). Major international conventions on refugee protection (the 1951 Convention to the Status of Refugees, the 1967 Protocol) and regional treaties (the Cartagena Treaty, the Convention on Specific Aspects of Refugee Problems in Africa) are also included in this section (chapter 3). Regional and international legal instruments are examined through several chapters: human rights and migrants (chapter 16), borders and citizenship (chapter 19), statelessness and refugees (chapter 21), resettlement and displacement (chapter 23 - 24), trafficking (chapter 25), non-refoulement principle (chapter 16), and encampment and self-resettlement (chapter 10). Finally, while parts of the book cover the legal and institutional responses to forced migration at a general, encompassing level, 1 Edited by Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, Gil Loescher, Katy Long, and Nando Sigona, Oxford, 2014. - 125 -