WORKING PAPERS

ON INTERNAL DISPLACEMENT

Our Working Papers on Internal Displacement series publishes original research on internal displacement and internally displaced persons.

The series provides an Open Access platform for publishing high-quality paper-length research by members of the networks hosted on the Researching Internal Displacement website as well as by other researchers on internal displacement.

Working Papers are prominently displayed as a resource for scholars and practitioners worldwide. Papers may be submitted in English, French, Spanish or Arabic. See the criteria for publication here.

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As a ‘one-stop shop’ for outputs from the networks hosted on the Researching Internal Displacement website, the series also reprints Working Papers published by those networks, including the IDRP Working Paper Series and GENIDA Working Papers.

For further information, and to submit a paper to the Working Papers on Internal Displacement, please contact the series Editor:

How Urban Are IDPs? Between Forcibly Evicted Urban Poor and Conflict IDPs

RID Working Paper No. 23

By Rebecca Enobong Roberts

| May 30, 2022

Drawing on case studies from Nigeria and Colombia, this paper analyses the intersections and tensions between the categories of 'urban IDP' and 'urban poor' who are susceptible to forced evictions.

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El desplazamiento forzado interno en el marco de la JEP: Una nueva posibilidad para la garantía de los derechos a la verdad y a la justicia

RID Working Paper No. 22

By Clara Atehortúa-Arredondo

| May 23, 2022

Este artículo analiza la relación entre la justicia transicional y el desplazamiento interno en el contexto de la Justicia Especial para la Paz en Colombia.

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Forced Internal Displacement in the JEP Framework: A New Possibility for Guaranteeing Rights to Truth and Justice

RID Working Paper No. 22

By Clara Atehortúa-Arredondo

| May 23, 2022

This paper analyses the relationship between transitional justice and internal displacement in the context of the 'Justicia Especial para la Paz' (JEP - Special Justice for Peace) in Colombia.

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Leaving Our Dreams Behind: A Perspective on Forced Internal Displacement in Mexico

RID Working Paper No. 21

By Norma Adriana Garduño Salazar

| May 10, 2022

The author, drawing on her own experience of displacement, explores the testimony of an internally displaced family to analyse the situation of violence and displacement in Mexico.

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Dejando atrás nuestros sueños: una mirada al desplazamiento interno forzado en México

RID Working Paper No. 21

By Norma Adriana Garduño Salazar

| May 10, 2022

En este análisis, la autora, a partir de su propia experiencia del desplazamiento interno, rescata el testimonio de una familia desplazada para analizar la situación de violencia y desplazamiento en México.

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Aspiration and Access to Primary and Secondary Education for Internally Displaced Children in Pakistan

RID Working Paper No. 20

By Muhammad Saif Imtiaz

| April 1, 2022

This paper analyses the impact of internal displacement on education among children from the Swat Valley, Pakistan

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Asylum and Internal Displacement: The Intertwining of Migrations in Colombia

RID Working Paper No. 19

By Carolina Moreno V.

| March 21, 2022

This paper analyses what different forms of forced migration have in common, beyond the distinctions made in law through a study of how the internal displacement of Colombians due to the armed conflict overlaps and intertwines with the displacement of Venezuelans arriving in Colombia on the other

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Refugio y desplazamiento interno: entrecruzamientos de las migraciones en Colombia

RID Working Paper No. 19

By Carolina Moreno V.

| March 21, 2022

El presente artículo reflexiona sobre lo que las formas de migración forzada tienen en común, más allá de las distinciones que hace el derecho.

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The Prevention of Arbitrary Displacement: A Temporal Understanding

RID Working Paper No. 18

By Gijs Marijn van Selm

| March 10, 2022

Drawing on legal and empirical sources, this study proposes a temporal model of the prevention of arbitrary displacement in conflict and disaster settings, with practical implications for interventions

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