Refugees in Extended Exile

'The plight of refugees has attracted unusual political attention since the accelerated flow into Europe of people fleeing acute threats in the Middle East. But this focus ignores the larger, endemic failure to address global refugee needs that are of long standing, a critical element of the "crisis". Extended Exile is the corrective to the myopic current focus. It addresses critical issues about the current refugee situation with scholarly acumen and empirical depth. The book uses the academic literature to probe the paradox of solutions that perpetuate failure, and protection that denudes very large groups of people of rights. For advocates interested in the practical challenges of enhancing the rights of communities trapped for generations in camps like Dadaab and Kakuma, this book provides a masterful exploration of the policy and conceptual context. For scholars engaged with explorations of the role of mobility in the contemporary global sphere, this book provides compelling evidence of the considerable challenges ahead. This book is an invaluable source of information and ideas for anyone concerned with refugee and migration issues'. - Jacqueline Bhabha, Harvard University, USA

'Refugees in Extended Exile is a classic: bold and convincing, it makes visible the invisible refugees living in long-term displacement in camps in the global south. Hyndman and Giles, ask pertinent and probing questions about the plight and future of the refugees living on the edge of everyday politics and decisions: how did the millions of refugees in the global south end up living for many years in exile, become marginalised, invisible, and without any permanent legal status? How do they survive and surmount the struggles of everyday life in the spaces of the camp for such long indefinite futures? How come that only less than 1 percent of refugees worldwide are allowed to leave the camps in the global south and resettle in the richer and developed countries of the global north? How can existing legal, political, and institutional frameworks be re-imagined in ways that allow engendering different futures, politics, and policies that embrace refugees as fellow human beings? These and other questions make Refugees in Extended Exile urgent, absorbing, and indispensable reading for anyone who wishes to understand how refugees end up in camps for years if not decades without any permanent solution to their plight and wants to see action taken to end this inhuman and degrading treatment meted out on fellow human beings.' - Zachary Lomo, St Augustine International University, Uganda