On the Margins: Noncitizens Caught in Countries Experiencing Violence, Conflict and Disaster

Migration Disruption: Crisis and Continuity in the Cambodian Mass Returns1

“…• The Arab Spring displaced hundreds of thousands of migrant workers in Libya, the majority of whom were from Egypt, Chad, Tunisia, Niger, Mali, and Sudan (Koser 2014;Weerasinghe et al 2015).…”

“…signal [ing] a juncture between one migration order and the next." More recently, two growing literatures have drawn attention to contemporary forms of migration disruption: the displacement and stranding of non-citizens in contexts of violence, conflict, and disaster (Collyer 2010;Gois and Campbell 2013;Koser 2014;Black and Collyer 2014;Martin, Weerasinghe, and Taylor 2014;Weerasinghe et al 2015;Pailey 2016), and migrant return or retrenchment as a result of the global economic crisis (Koser 2009;Martin 2009;Cottle and Keys 2010;Fernandez 2010;Buckley 2012;Sirkeci, Cohen, and Ratha 2012;Spitzer and Piper 2014). Similar to Van Hear's work, these studies also tend to explicitly or implicitly motivate their research within the frameworks of crisis, suggesting that precarity, vulnerability, and exclusion are produced through acute changes to, or crises within, otherwise stable migration systems.…”

“…Relatedly, the bulk of these studies focus their attention on the extraordinary impacts of migration disruption, often seeking to influence states, policymakers, and practitioners to better attend to the needs of migrants caught in crisis. 3 Thus, studies of stranded migrants highlight the particular protection challenges faced by non-citizens "trapped in transit" (e.g., Koser 2014;Weerasinghe et al 2015), and analyses of economic crisis focus on the need for protection of migrant workers in times of crisis, and/or greater cooperation between states in cases of migrant return (e.g., Koser 2009;Martin 2009). This paper takes a different approach, moving away from the framework of "crisis" to consider how large-scale migration disruptions may offer telling windows on everyday dynamics within migration systems.…”

Chapter 5 – Global migration governance: Existing architecture and recent developments

“…b For more on the impacts of crises on non-citizens, see, for example, Weerasinghe et al, 2015. There are a number of reasons to be optimistic about mini-multilateralism as a way to fill persistent gaps in protection. Martin, observing these processes from the inside, concluded that informal, non-binding, State-led processes for reform are seen by States as pragmatic approaches to norm-filling.…”

New Models of International Agreement for Refugee Protection

“…For more information on the displacement of migrants during these crises, seeWeerasinghe and Taylor (2015).…”