Johnathan Bascom is Associate Professor in the Department of Geography at East Carolina University.

• List of Maps, Figures, and TablesPrefaceAbbreviationsAcknowledgementsCreditsChapter 1. IntroductionChapter 2. Refugees and Rural TransformationsChapter 3. Migration and Agrarian Change on the Border LandsChapter 4. Integration and the Cultivation of a Hard LifeChapter 5. Resettlement and Positions of PovertyChapter 6. Exile and the Perils of PastoralismChapter 7. Asylum and the Making of Home TerrainChapter 8. Repatriation and the Search for HomeChapter 9. Concluding ReflectionsBibliographyAppendicesIndex

“Very useful, both for its analysis and for its historical detail.” • International Migration Review“A very good piece of work … a major contribution to understanding the impact of new economic environments upon the economic and social survival of refugees…” • Elizabeth Colson, University of California, Berkeley“[Bascom's] work is of the highest quality, representing an exemplary geographical approach to a phenomenon and its associated problems.” • W.T.S. Gould, Graduate School of Population Studies, University of Liverpool“Dr. Bascom is an outstanding scholar whose research is on the cutting edge of integrating population, economic, regional, cultural, agricultural, and political geographies.” • William B.Wood, Director, Office of the Geographer and Global Issues