ABSTRACT
The emerging field of political demography offers a promising avenue for studying the migration–conflict nexus. Migration has always been a feature of social, economic and political life throughout the world. Given the disciplinary focus on the state, conflict, and international phenomena, International Relations would seem to be a natural home for scholarship on the migration–conflict nexus. The authors claim that migration dynamics need to be better integrated into the study of group conflict and violence around the world. Research has also begun to examine how refugees can be sources of conflict. The authors argue that the concept of 'sons of the soil' (SoS) conflict offers a useful approach to compare and contrast migration–conflict dynamics in both the Global South and the Global North. To summarize, SoS conflicts uniquely combine elements of ethnicity, indigeneity, and territory. The chapter also presents some concepts discussed in this book.
