Forced Displacement: Why Rights Matter

This seminar will launch the book Forced Displacement: Why Rights
Matter. Five of the book’s contributors will present their work and invite
discussion. The book examines disjunctures in global and local policy
frameworks and categories that determine the lives and status of
displaced people. It provides case studies from Africa, the Middle East
and Asia, evaluates rights-based approaches that seek to award agency
to displaced people, and demonstrates how ‘rights talk’ can be ‘rights
practice’ in forced migration research, policy and practice.

‘Forced Displacement: Why Rights Matter’
Katarzyna Grabska and Lyla Mehta, Institute of Development Studies

‘Rights and Development-Induced Displacement: Risk Management or Social Protection?’
Behrooz Morvaridi, Bradford Centre for International Development

‘Access to Economic and Social Rights in First Countries of Asylum and Repatriation: A Case Study of Eritrean Refugees in Sudan’
Gaim Kibreab, London South Bank University

‘Protests Against UNHCR to Achieve Rights: Some Reflections’
Barbara Harrell-Bond, University of Oxford

Chair: Richard Black, Migration DRC, University of Sussex

The Khalili Lecture Theatre is located in the Phillips Building,
SOAS, University of London,Thornhaugh Street,

Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG.
For enquiries, contact: migration@sussex.ac.uk

Hosted by: SOAS Center for Migration and Diaspora Studies