ABSTRACT
Chapter 7 looks to understand legislative and policy responses towards the forcibly displaced during the 20th and early 21st centuries. This includes a short chronology of UNHCR’s ‘durable solutions’ of resettlement, local integration and repatriation; policies and legislation devised for IDPs; legislation around people who have experienced human trafficking; and responses specific to children on the move. It also considers the recently devised Global Compact on Refugees (GCR) and Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration (GCM) and limitations of these approaches. Consideration is then given to working with and/or conducting ethically informed research with people who have experienced displacement in humanitarian contexts. A series of scenarios for considering ethical research is provided for in-class discussion purposes. Key concepts such as ‘burden-sharing’, ‘deterrence’ and the principle of ‘Do no harm’ during research are outlined. The work of Bhupinder S. Chimni on viewing policies for refugees ‘from the South’ is included.
