The Uprooted: Improving Humanitarian Responses to Forced Migration

by Susan F. Martin, Patricia Weiss Fagen, Kari M. Jorgensen

By conservative estimates about 50 million migrants are currently living outside of their home communities, forced to flee to obtain some measure of safety and security. In addition to persecution, human rights violations, repression, conflict, and natural and human-made disasters, current causes of forced migration include environmental and development-induced factors. Today's migrants include the internally displaced, a category that has only recently...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0739108166
• ISBN13: 9780739108161
• Release Date: September 2005
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Length: 304 Pages