Routledge Studies in Development, Displacement and Resettlement
About the Book Series
This series is concerned with the complex global issue of forced migration, from its causes and resulting implications to potential responses and solutions. With the numbers of forcibly displaced people around the world hitting record levels in recent years, including refugees, internally displaced persons and asylum seekers, this is an issue that affects not only those communities and countries that people are fleeing from, but also those they are fleeing to.
The series will explore the various mechanisms by which people undergo forced movement, such as war, conflict, environmental disaster, development projects, persecution, ecological degradation, famine, human trafficking and ethnic cleansing. It also seeks to promote a fuller understanding of the implications of forced displacement and how scholars, policy-makers, NGO advocates and those working in the field can collectively develop adequate responses.
To submit proposals, please contact the Editor, Helena Hurd ([email protected]).
Megaprojects in Central America: Local Narratives About Development and the Good Life
1st Edition
By Katarzyna Dembicz, Ewelina Biczyńska
November 28, 2025
Embedded in Southern voices and epistemologies, this book explores how local communities in Central America understand development and the good life in the context of large-scale infrastructure projects. The analysis focuses on six case studies: the Reventazón hydropower plant and the Guanacaste ...
Ukrainian Female War Migrants: Mobilising Resources for Prospective Social Remittances
1st Edition
By Izabela Grabowska, Ivanna Kyliushyk, Emil Chról
June 05, 2025
This book delves into the experiences of Ukrainian women forced to leave their country in search of refuge following the devastating escalation of Russian war in February 2022, exploring the diverse forms of capital they bring with them and develop on the way. Drawing on extensive original research...
Resettlement with People First: Counterfactual Pathways
1st Edition
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By Susanna Price, Jay Drydyk
May 06, 2025
Should people in the way lose out as new reservoirs, mines, plantations, or superhighways displace them from their homes and livelihoods? What if the process of resettlement were made accountable to those impacted, empowering them to achieve just outcomes and to share in the benefits of development...
Child Rights and Displacement in East Africa: Agency and Spatial Justice in Planning Policy
1st Edition
By Cherie C. Enns, Willibard J. Kombe
August 26, 2024
Focusing on the intersection of spatial justice, child rights, and planning policy, this book investigates the challenges of resettlement in East Africa, where half of those displaced are children. The challenges created by displacement and resettlement are often considered from an adult-centric ...
Development-Induced Displacement and Resettlement in Vietnam: Exploring the State – People Nexus
1st Edition
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By Nguyen Quy Nghi, Jane Singer
August 26, 2024
This book explores the complex legal, cultural, economic and human rights issues associated with development-induced displacement and resettlement (DIDR) in Vietnam. As in many parts of the world, urban expansion and large-scale infrastructure projects in Vietnam often rely on forced land ...
Resettlement in Asian Countries: Legislation, Administration and Struggles for Rights
1st Edition
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By Mohammad Zaman, Reshmy Nair, Shi Guoqing
September 25, 2023
This book examines land acquisition and resettlement experience in Asian countries, where nearly two-thirds of the world’s development-induced displacement currently takes place. Faced with the complexity of balancing legal frameworks and resettlement needs, along with increasing demands for ...
Climate Change, Disasters, and Internal Displacement in Asia and the Pacific: A Human Rights-Based Approach
1st Edition
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By Matthew Scott, Albert Salamanca
May 30, 2022
This book examines how states in eight countries across Asia and the Pacific address internal displacement in the context of disasters and climate change. The Asia and the Pacific region accounts for the majority of global disaster-related displacement, but the experience of the millions of ...
Repairing Domestic Climate Displacement: The Peninsula Principles
1st Edition
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By Scott Leckie, Chris Huggins
April 27, 2017
Climate change, sometimes thought of as a problem for the future, is already impacting people’s lives around the world: families are losing their homes, lands and livelihoods as a result of sea level rise, increased frequency and intensity of storms, drought and other phenomena. Following several ...
Global Implications of Development, Disasters and Climate Change: Responses to Displacement from Asia Pacific
1st Edition
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By Susanna Price, Jane Singer
April 11, 2017
Displacements in the Asia Pacific region are escalating. The region has for decades experienced more than half of the world’s natural disasters and, in recent years, a disproportionately high share of extreme weather-related disasters, which displaced 19 million people in 2013 alone. This volume ...
Development-Induced Displacement and Resettlement: New perspectives on persisting problems
1st Edition
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By Irge Satiroglu, Narae Choi
January 27, 2017
Every year millions of people are displaced from their homes, livelihoods and communities due to land-based development projects. There is no limit to what can be called a ‘development project’. They can range from small-scale infrastructure or mining projects to mega hydropower plants; can be ...
Land Solutions for Climate Displacement
1st Edition
Edited
By Scott Leckie
July 27, 2016
The threat of climate displacement looms large over a growing number of countries. Based on the more than six years of work by Displacement Solutions in ten climate-affected countries, academic work on displacement and climate adaptation, and the country-level efforts of civil society groups in ...