In some countries, the internally displaced are beyond the reach of international humanitarian organizations.
Although the displaced populations concerned may be in dire need of assistance and protection, and could benefit
immeasurably from outside support, few or no steps are taken, or strategies developed, to gain access to them. Whereas
conflict is the inhibiting factor in some cases, in others, the governments concerned do not request aid and by and large reject
any that is offered. Only rarely does the United Nations Security Council deem such situations to be threats to international
peace and security and demand entry.
Leading examples of governments that successfully bar international involvement with their displaced populations are Turkey,
Burma, and Algeria. The situations in the three countries are, of course, quite different. In Turkey and Burma, governments
have deliberately uprooted people in order to destroy their possible links to insurgency movements. In Algeria, displacement is
a by-product of conflict, primarily between the government and Islamist insurgent groups...
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Roberta Cohen
Forced Migration Review (FMR)
Forced Migration Review (FMR) is the most widely read publication on forced migration – available in English, French, Spanish and Arabic, and free of charge in print and online. It is published by the Refugee Studies Centre in the Oxford Department of International Development, University of Oxford. Through FMR, authors from around the world analyse the causes and impacts of displacement; debate policies and programmes; share research findings; reflect the lived experience of displacement; and present examples of good practice and recommendations for policy and action.
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