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:

Re-displacing the Displaced: Rethinking the Dual Strategy of Large-scale Resettlement and Peaceful Coexistence in Metekel, Ethiopia

RID Working Paper No. 17

By Bereket Tsegay

| February 14, 2022

By investigating the complex dynamics of conflict and the re-displacement of resettled IDPs in Metekel, this study underscores the need for a deeper understanding of humanitarian protection, forced internal displacement, as well as peace and security dynamics, in order to mitigate existing and potential future challenges in Ethiopia

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Identity, Identification, Access: Exploring Evidence-based Strategies for Healthcare Access of Internally Displaced Persons

RID Working Paper No. 16

By Susanna Mitra

| January 27, 2022

This paper develops a methodological tool – the Ontology of Access to Healthcare for Internally Displaced Persons – to frame individual variance in the social experience of IDPs and its impact on identity and identification of IDPs for accessing healthcare

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Disjunction of Borders, Who Is the Outsider?

RID Working Paper No. 15

By Atefeh Ramsari

| January 19, 2022

This paper explores how the interaction of citizenship and nationhood boundaries shapes 'belonging' and 'membership' for two different ethnic groups of internal migrants/displaced persons in the Kurdistan region of Iraq

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Supporting Internally Displaced People: Transnational Solidarity and the Syrian Diaspora

IDRP Working Paper No. 14

By Mohamad Al-Ashmar

| January 12, 2022

This paper highlights the crucial ways in which the Syrian diaspora has mobilised to provide humanitarian assistance to IDPs and other conflict-affected populations in Syria, connecting the diaspora with the internally-displaced population

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Property Rights of Kashmiri Pandits: A Critical Evaluation of Legal and Policy Measures taken by the Indian Government

RID Working Paper No. 13

By Niketa Singh

| December 15, 2021

An analysis into measures taken by the Indian government for the return and rehabilitation of Kashmiri Pandits reveals neglect of property needs of IDPs as well as ‘secondary occupiers'

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On Refuge and Displacement: Challenges to the Provision of Rights and Protection for Syrians Inside and Outside Syrian Borders

RID Working Paper No. 12

By Jasmin Lilian Diab

| December 13, 2021

This paper challenges notions of protection and displacement through a comparative study of the Syrian population's experience of, respectively, internal displacement and displacement across borders as refugees

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Three Decades of Finding ‘Home’: An (Auto)Ethnographic Poetic Inquiry into Transgenerational Construction of Home of Internally Displaced Persons of 1992-1995 Bosnian War

RID Working Paper No. 11

By Nikola Lero

| December 8, 2021

An (auto)ethnographic insight into the three-decade-long journey of construction and reconstruction of the meaning of home of Bosnian IDPs through the story of one family.

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Evaluating Hong Kong’s Legal and Policy Frameworks to Address Climate and Disaster-Related Displacement in the Pearl River Delta

RID Working Paper No. 10

By Roshan Melwani

| December 7, 2021

This paper reviews Hong Kong's legal and policy landscape to assess the Government's capacity to respond to climate and disaster-related displacement within the Pearl River Delta Region.

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Roma in Iraq and Syria: On the Margins of IDP Protection

RID Working Paper No. 9

By Sarah Edgcumbe

| December 2, 2021

This exploratory paper examines the relationship between humanitarian protection and a severely marginalised and under-researched group of IDPs - the Roma of the Middle East - specifically of Iraq and Syria

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