"People Forced to Flee: History, Change and Challenge traces the history of asylum from ancient period to modern times, describes how the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees outgrew post-war Europe to become a global, binding framework for the protection of refugees, reviews international responses to internally displaced persons and those forcibly displaced in the context of climate change and disasters, discusses the record on finding lasting solutions to forced displacement, the lessons learned and prospects to unlock more, charts the growing recognition that forced displacement is a development and humanitarian challenge, looks at the potential this holds for improving lives of forcibly displaced persons and the communities in which they live, examines how new partnerships are widening the funding base, improving data, evidence and analysis, strengthening innovation and investments in locally led responses, traces the expansion of efforts to hold those who cause displacement – the perpetrators of serious human rights abuses – criminally liable."
table of contents PART I: The roots of asylum -- PART II: Protecting more broadly -- PART III: Solutions - an uneven record -- PART IV: Improving life prospects -- PART V: Bridging the gap -- CONCLUSION: Reflecting back and facing forward.

559 p. : ill., graphs, maps, tables

Includes bibliographical references (p. 364-535).