Fifty years have passed since the United Nation's Convention on Refugees signaled the commitment of humane people worldwide to the persecuted and the dispossessed. This working group builds on the reality that such displacement, proliferating in number and in kind, is today met with growing resistance by liberal and reactionary states alike to its principles, by compassion fatigue, and by scholarly muddling on key concepts, relationships, causes and effects. In some instances development is itself implicated as a cause of rather than a solution to displacement; in others, displacement occurs in situ, i.e., within countries and may be as much about loss of human rights in situ as loss of home or community. We seek to understand the many relationships between displacement and development and are doing so through expert workshops, a graduate seminar, periodic seminars, and original publications of use to scholars, policy makers, and practitioners.
Contact: Chuck Geisler at ccg2@cornell.edu or Shelley Feldman at rf12@cornell.edu.
Current members:
Miranda Buffam
Hong Thuy Thi Bui
Jason Cons
Kelly Dietz
Upik Djalins
Amanda Flaim
Chuck Geisler
Jamie Herring
Hyunok Lee
Erin Lentz
Christian Lentz
Jennifer Mark
Gayatri Menon
Karuna Morarji
Bethany Ojalehto
Bharat Raj Pathak
Mindi Schneider
Louise Silberling
Ivan Victor Small
Alicia Swords
Reshmi Krishan Theckethil
Shelley Feldman
Sudeshna Mitra
Sudha Narayanan
Tyrell Haberkorn
Hannak Wittman
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