TY - JOUR
T1 - Refugees, forced migration, and conflict
T2 - Introduction to the special issue
AU - Braithwaite, Alex
AU - Salehyan, Idean
AU - Savun, Burcu
N1 - Funding Information:
Braithwaite’s time was supported by the US Army Research Office and was accomplished under Grant Number W911NF-17-1-0030.
Funding Information:
The Guest Editors wish to thank the Editorial team of the Journal of Peace Research for their incredible support in producing this special issue, participants at the March 2017 ?Conflict, Aid, and Refugees? workshop at the University of Arizona and the ?Refugees, Forced Migration, and Conflict? workshop at the International Studies Association meetings in San Francisco, CA, 4-7 April 2018, for providing motivation and materials for the special issue, and the authors and reviewers of the special issue contributions for ensuring the high standard of research contained herein.
Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s) 2018.
PY - 2019/1/1
Y1 - 2019/1/1
N2 - Few issues in international politics have dominated public debates, both in domestic and international arenas, as much as refugee movements across borders in recent years. By the end of 2017, more than 68.5 million people – one in approximately every 110 people on the planet – had been displaced from their homes, either as internally displaced persons (IDPs) or as refugees, due to violent conflict, persecution, famine, or natural disasters. This article introduces a special issue on refugees, forced migration, and conflict. It describes the evolution of the international refugee regime and identifies theoretical and methodological advances in the relevant literature. It concludes with a discussion of the individual contributions to the issue, which seek to address gaps in the literature with respect to explaining motivations for refugee departures, understanding the relationship between refugee populations and political instability in host countries, and tracking public attitudes towards hosting refugee populations.
AB - Few issues in international politics have dominated public debates, both in domestic and international arenas, as much as refugee movements across borders in recent years. By the end of 2017, more than 68.5 million people – one in approximately every 110 people on the planet – had been displaced from their homes, either as internally displaced persons (IDPs) or as refugees, due to violent conflict, persecution, famine, or natural disasters. This article introduces a special issue on refugees, forced migration, and conflict. It describes the evolution of the international refugee regime and identifies theoretical and methodological advances in the relevant literature. It concludes with a discussion of the individual contributions to the issue, which seek to address gaps in the literature with respect to explaining motivations for refugee departures, understanding the relationship between refugee populations and political instability in host countries, and tracking public attitudes towards hosting refugee populations.
KW - forced migration
KW - political violence
KW - refugees
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U2 - 10.1177/0022343318814128
DO - 10.1177/0022343318814128
M3 - Editorial
AN - SCOPUS:85059590674
SN - 0022-3433
VL - 56
SP - 5
EP - 11
JO - Journal of Peace Research
JF - Journal of Peace Research
IS - 1
ER -