Fiona B., Adamson & Kelly M Greenhill | The Oxford Handbook of Human Security
Abstract
Organized forced migration comprises various types of state-led displacement, such as population transfers, expulsions, exchanges, repatriations and exoduses. Despite international humanitarian, criminal, and human rights conventions that ban state use of forced population transfers, organized forced migration continues to be regularly used by states as a domestic and foreign policy tool—in demographic reengineering schemes, military conflicts, coercive bargaining, and other forms of negotiation, and even in contemporary forms of migration management. This chapter provides historical and contemporary examples of state use of organized forced migration and outlines the challenges and practical implications for human security that accompany such use.