Protracted Refugee Situations

Gil Loescher is Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for International Studies, University of Oxford and was formerly Senior Fellow for Migration and Forced Displacement at the IISS. He is the author of The UNHCR and World Politics: A Perilous Path (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001) and Refugee Movements and International Security, Adelphi Paper 268, (London: Brassey’s for the IISS, 1992) as well as over a dozen authored and edited books. James Milner is a doctoral student at St Antony’s College, Oxford and is a specialist on refugee policy, Africa and development. Loescher and Milner have co-authored recent articles in International Affairs and Conflict, Development and Security.

• INTRODUCTIONThe significance of protracted refugee situations; Chapter 1 Chapter OneDefining the problem; Chapter 2 Chapter TwoSecurity implications of protracted refugee situations; Chapter 3 Case studies: contemporary protracted refugee populations in Africa and Asia; Chapter 4 Towards solutions for protracted refugee situations;