The Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS)

Books and published reports

Refugees: dynamics of displacement A report for the Independent Commission on International Humanitarian Issues, London: Zed Books, 1986, xviii + 152 pp (consultant and co-writer, with Jeff Crisp).

Afghanistan: the human tragedy, London : British Refugee Council 1987, 27pp.

The Afghan tragedy, London: British Refugee Council, 1988, 38pp.

New diasporas: the mass exodus, dispersal and regrouping of migrant communities , London : University College London Press, and Seattle: University of Washington Press , 1998. Xv+298pp. ISBN 1857288386.

The Migration-Development Nexus (edited, with Ninna Nyberg Sørensen), Geneva : International Organisation for Migration, 2003, vi + 318pp. ISBN 92110336070.

Catching fire: containing forced migration in a volatile world, (edited with Christopher McDowell). Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books/Rowman and Littlefield, 2006, xiv + 261pp. ISBN 0739112449.

Journal articles

'Child labour and the development of capitalist agriculture in Ghana ', Development and Change , 13, 4, 1982, pp499-514. Click here for full text

'By day boys and dariga men: casual labour versus agrarian capital in Ghana ', Review of African Political Economy , 31, 1984, pp44-56. Click here for the full text

'Forced migration and the Gulf conflict, 1990-91', Oxford International Review, 3, 1, Winter 1991, pp17-21.

'Mass expulsion of minorities: an overview', Journal of Refugee Studies , 6, 3, 1993, pp274-285.

'Twenty years after the expulsion of Asians from Uganda : Editorial introduction', Journal of Refugee Studies, 6, 3, 1993, pp226-229.

Guest editor, Ugandan Asians twenty years after the expulsion , Journal of Refugee Studies, 6, 3, 1993.

'The socio-economic impact of the involuntary mass return to Yemen in 1990', Journal of Refugee Studies, 7, 1, 1994, pp18-38. Click here for the full text

'The impact of involuntary mass 'return' to Jordan in the wake of the Gulf crisis', International Migration Review , 29, 2, 1995, 352-374.

Editor, Refugee studies and the refugee regime in transition , Journal of Refugee Studies, special issue, 11, 4, 1998.

'Editorial introduction', Refugee studies and the refugee regime in transition , Journal of Refugee Studies, special issue, 11, 4, 1998. 341-349. Click here for the full text

'Refugee protection and immigration control: addressing the asylum dilemma', Refugee Survey Quarterly , 17, 3, 1998 (with Jeff Crisp). Click here for the full text

'Locating internally displaced people in the field of forced migration'. Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift . (Norwegian Journal of Geography), Vol 54, no 3, September 2000: 90-95. Click here for the full text

'The Migration-Development Nexus: Evidence and Policy Options. State of the Art Overview.' (with Ninna Nyberg Sørensen and Poul Engberg-Pedersen ) in International Migration, Special Issue on The Migration-Development Nexus. International Migration 40, 5, 2002: 1-47 . Click here for the full text

'The Migration-Development Nexus: Evidence and Policy Options. Policy Study' (with Ninna Nyberg Sørensen and Poul Engberg-Pedersen ) in International Migration, Special Issue on The Migration-Development Nexus. International Migration 40, 5, 2002: 49-73 . Click here for the full text

Editor (with Ninna Nyberg Sørensen), International Migration. Special issue: The Migration-Development Nexus. International Migration, 40, 5, 2002 . Click here for issue details

'Migrazioni internazionali e sviluppo: tendenze e nuove prospettive', Inchiesta , 142: 102-112, 2003 (with Ninna Soerensen).

'Refugees in diaspora: from durable solutions to transnational relations', Refuge , 23 1 Winter, ISSN 02295113, 2006, 9-15. Click here for the full text

'Beyond control: informal remittance transfer, regulation and development', (with Frank Pieke and Anna Lindley), accepted by Global Networks , 2007

Chapters in books

'Modern mass expulsions: causes and consequences', in The Scapegoats: victims of mass expulsions , draft report for the Independent Bureau for Humanitarian Issues, Geneva : ICIHI, 1987.

'Recession, retrenchment and military rule: Nigerian labour in the 1980s', in Trade unions and the new industrialisation of the third world , ed R Southall, Ottawa University Press, Zed Press/University of Pittsburgh Press, 1988, pp144-163.

'Refugees and displaced people: health issues', in The Challenge of African Disasters , World Health Organisation Pan-African Centre for Emergency Preparedness and Response/United Nations Institute for Training and Research, New York: UNITAR, 1991, pp60-76 (with Barbara Harrell-Bond).

'Mass flight in the Middle East: involuntary migration and the Gulf conflict, 1990-91', in R Black and V Robinson (eds), Geography and refugees: patterns and processes of change , London : Belhaven, 1993, pp64-83.

'Forced mass repatriation of migrant workers in longer term perspective', in T Allen and H Morsink (eds), When refugees go home, London : UN Research Institute for Social Development/James Curry, 1994, pp276-278.

'Massenflucht im Mittleren Orient: Erzwungene Migration wahrend des Golfkonflikts', in Migration im Orient , Jahrbuch fur Vergleichende Sozialforschung 1991 , (Yearbook for Comparative Social Research), Berliner Institut fur Vergleichende Sozialforschung , Berlin : Edition Parabolis, 1994, pp131-156.

'L'impact des rapatriements forces vers la Jordanie et le Yemen pendant la crise du Golfe', in R Bocco and M Djalili (eds) Moyen-Orient: migrations, democratisation, mediations , Paris : Presses Universitaires de France, 1994, pp101-116.

'Global citizens on the move: a new era of international migration', in States of disarray: the social effects of globalization , an UNRISD report for the World Summit for Social Development, ed P Stalker, Geneva: United Nations Research Institute for Social Development, March 1995, pp59-71.

'Displaced people after the Gulf crisis', in R Cohen (ed), The Cambridge Survey of World Migration , Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1995, 424--430.

'Forced migration in global perspective', in S Muni and L Baral eds, Refugees and regional security in South Asia , Regional Centre for Strategic Studies (Colombo), New Delhi: Konark Books, 1996, 38--46.

'Refugees and displaced people in Africa', Africa Contemporary Record 1989-1990 , Volume 22, M Doro & C Legum (eds), New York : Holmes and Meier, 1996, 47--58.

'The expulsion of South Asians from Uganda ', The State of the World's Refugees: Fifty years of humanitarian action . Oxford : UNHCR/OUP, 2000.

'Sustaining societies under strain: remittances as a form of transnational exchange in Sri Lanka and Ghana ' in New approaches to migration: transnational communities and the transformation of home , edited by K Koser and N Al-Ali, London and New York : Routledge, 2002, 202--223.

'From 'durable solutions' to 'transnational relations': home and exile among refugee diasporas', in B Folke Frederiksen and N Nyberg Sørensen (eds), Beyond home and exile: making sense of life on the move . Occasional paper no 23. Roskilde : International Development Studies, Roskilde University . 2002, 232-51.

'Editorial introduction', ( with Ninna Nyberg Sørensen) in The Migration-Development Nexus (edited, with Ninna Nyberg Sørensen), Geneva : International Organisation for Migration, 2003, 1-3.

Migration, Development and Conflict: State of the Art Overview', (with Ninna Nyberg Sørensen and Poul Engberg-Pedersen ) in The Migration-Development Nexus (edited, with Ninna Nyberg Sørensen), Geneva : International Organisation for Migration, 2003, 5-50. Click here for the full text (in International Migration)

'The Migration-Development Nexus: Evidence and Policy Options', (with Ninna Nyberg Sørensen and Poul Engberg-Pedersen ) in The Migration-Development Nexus (edited, with Ninna Nyberg Sørensen), Geneva : International Organisation for Migration, 2003, 287-317. Click here for the full text (in International Migration)

'Refugee diasporas or refugees in diaspora', in Melvin Ember, Carol R. Ember, & Ian Skoggard (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Diasporas: Immigrant and Refugee Cultures Around the World. Vol. I: Overviews and Topics. New York : Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers. 2004, 580-589.

'Asylum migration: implications for countries of origin' (with Khalid Koser ), in G Borjas and J Crisp eds, Poverty, International Migration and Asylum , Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan/United Nations University/World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU/WIDER) 2005, 121-142.

'Diasporas' in M Gibney and R Hansen eds. Immigration and asylum: from 1900 to the present . Santa Barbara , CA : ABC-CLIO. 2005: 135-140.

'I went as far as my money would take me': conflict, forced migration and class', in F Crepeau et al eds. Forced migration and global processes: a view from forced migration studies , Lanham MA: Lexington/Rowman and Littlefield, 2006, 125-158. ISBN 0739112767 . For the original COMPAS working paper, click here: WP-04-06

'Introduction' in Catching Fire: containing forced migration in a volatile world, (with C McDowell), edited by N Van Hear and C McDowell, Lanham MA: Lexington/Rowman and Littlefield, 1-13, 2006, ISBN 0739112449.

'From complex displacement to fragile peace in Sri Lanka', in Catching Fire: containing forced migration in a volatile world, (with Darini Rajasingham-Senanayake), edited by N Van Hear and C McDowell, Lanham MA: Lexington/Rowman and Littlefield, 44-71, 2006, ISBN 0739112449.

'Conclusion: re-casting societies in conflict', in Catching Fire: containing forced migration in a volatile world, edited by N Van Hear and C McDowell, Lanham MA: Lexington/Rowman and Littlefield, 213-227, 2006, ISBN 0739112449.

'Linking return and reintegration to complex forced migration emergencies' (with C McDowell) in Palestinian refugee repatriation: global perspectives , edited Michael Dumper, Abingdon: Routledge, 2006, 154-179, ISBN 0415384974.

'Forced Migration, Conflict and Development: Some Policy Issues', (with Stephen Castles), in Mediterranean Transit Migration , edited by Ninna Nyberg Sørensen, Copenhagen : Danish Institute for International Studies, June 2006, ISBN: 8776051412.

Working papers and reports

The impact of the involuntary mass 'repatriation' of Palestinians to Jordan in the wake of the Gulf crisis , Centro Studi Luca D'Agliano/Queen Elizabeth House Development Studies Working Papers, March 1995

'Reintegrating returnees: opportunities and constraints ', Ramallah, West Bank: Shaml (Palestinian Diaspora and Refugee Centre), Monograph Series 6, 1997.

Assessment of lessons learned from Sida support to conflict management and peace building and reconciliation: state of the art/annotated bibliography . (with Finn Stepputat and Ninna Sørensen)

SIDA evaluation 00/37:1. Stockholm : Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA), 2000.

'Displacement and the humanitarian regime in Sri Lanka ', (with Darini Rajasingham-Senanayake) for the collaborative project Complex forced migration: towards a new humanitarian regime , Copenhagen and Colombo , July 2002.

'From 'durable solutions' to 'transnational relations': home and exile among refugee diasporas', CDR Working Paper 02.9, July 2002. Copenhagen : CDR.

The Migration-Development Nexus: Evidence and Policy Options. State of the Art Overview, (with Ninna Nyberg Sørensen and Poul Engberg-Pedersen ), Copenhagen : Centre for Development Research Working Paper 02.6, March 2002. Later published in the IOM Migration Research Series, No 8, International Organisation for Migration: Geneva, 2002. Click here for the full text (in International Migration)

The Migration-Development Nexus: Evidence and Policy Options. Policy Study, (with Ninna Nyberg Sørensen and Poul Engberg-Pedersen ), Copenhagen : Centre for Development Research, 2002. Click here for the full text (in International Migration)

The Migration-Development Nexus: Issue Paper, (with Ninna Nyberg Sørensen and Poul Engberg-Pedersen ) Copenhagen : Centre for Development Research, 2002.

'Asylum migration: implications for countries of origin' (with Khalid Koser ), United Nations University/World Institute for Development Economics Research Discussion Paper DP 2003/20, Helsinki : UNU/WIDER, February 2003. Later published in G Borjas and J Crisp eds, Poverty, International Migration and Asylum , UNU/WIDER, 2003.

'From 'durable solutions' to 'transnational relations': home and exile among refugee diasporas', UNHCR Evaluation and Policy Analysis Unit, New Issues in Refugee Research, Working Paper 83, March 2003. Geneva : UNHCR.

'I went as far as my money would take me': conflict, forced migration and class. Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS), Working Paper no 6, 2004. WP-04-06

The contribution of UK-based diasporas to development and poverty reduction , (with Frank Pieke and Steven Vertovec), a report for the Department for International Development (DFID), April 2004. Click here for the full report 

Informal Remittance Systems in African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries: synthesis study , (with Frank Pieke and Anna Lindley), a report for the European Community Poverty Reduction Effectiveness Programme (EC-PREP) and the Department for International Development (DFID), January 2005. Revised version to be published in Global Networks , 2007.  Click here for the full study

'Re-casting conflict societies', Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS), Working Paper no 22, 2005. WP-05-22

Developing DfID's Policy Approach to Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons , Oxford: Refugee Studies Centre, 2005 (with Stephen Castles). 174pp.

'Refugees and internally displaced people - policy issues', id21 Global Issues, 07-2006, Research Highlight, www.id21.org/society/s10csc1g3.html (with Stephen Castles).