Howard Adelman
Ashgate (October 2008)

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About the book:  In a protracted displacement situation, refugees are sequestered in camps without right of mobility or employment; their lives remain on hold and stagnate in a state of limbo for a long period. This book reviews the situation and results of research and policies that have left refugees as a forgotten group in protracted situations.

The work features case studies by experts who conducted field work examining long-term protracted refugee situations in Nepal, Thailand and Bangladesh, the protracted internally displaced (IDP) situation in Sri Lanka, and the refugee and IDP situation in Afghanistan. Also discussed is an emerging protracted refugee and IDP problem in Iraq. The volume concludes with an analysis of the lessons learned and the applications for policy, and incorporates a valuable bibliography detailing research in this hugely important area. This is a critical resource for academics and policy makers concerned with migration and governance issues.

About the author:  Howard Adelman is currently completing a three year term as Research Professor at the Key Centre for Ethics, Law, Justice and Governance at Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia.  After leaving York five years ago, he became first a Sr. Research Fellow and, in the subsequent year, a Visiting Professor at the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University. Howard Adelman was previously a Professor of Philosophy at York University in Toronto from 1966-2003 where he founded and was the first Director of the Centre for Refugee Studies and Editor of Refuge until the end of 1993. He has written or co-authored 9 books and edited or co-edited 20 others. He has authored 73 chapters in edited volumes, 96 articles in refereed journals, and 30 professional reports. He recently served as an Associate Editor of the Macmillan 3 volume Encyclopedia of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity. In addition to his numerous writings on refugees, he has written articles, chapters and books on the Middle East, multiculturalism, humanitarian intervention, membership rights, ethics, early warning and conflict management.  In 1999, he and Astri Suhrke co-edited The Path of a Genocide: the Rwanda Crisis from Uganda to Zaire, New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Press. Professor Adelman is currently completing a coauthored book entitled Rites of Return for submission to Princeton University Press, another on Military Intervention and Non-Intervention in the Twenty-First Century: An Australian Perspective for Routledge, and a co-edited volume with Pierre Anctil entitled, Religion, Culture and State: Canada and Québec: Reflections on the Bouchard-Taylor Report for the University of Toronto Press.  Adelman is also currently completing a three year appointment as Deputy Convenor for the governance research network in Australia and in that role has been active in creating a networked-linked international consortium of governance researchers. Within that area he focused attention on health governance and co-founded the International Consortium for Research on the Global Health Workforce (ICR-GHW), HealthNet Australia, and the Canadian Consortium for Research on the Health Workforce.  In an earlier phase of his career, when working on conflict management and early warning, he designed and helped create the early warning systems in the Horn of Africa for IGAD called CEWARN and the one for ECOWAS in West Africa called WARN.

Contact:  howardadelman@rogers.com