Editorial : Towards a critical understanding of the disability/forced migration nexus

Abstract

Much has been written and documented on forced migration and the movements of people within and across national borders. People have always been forced to move, they always will, perhaps now more than ever. In light of environmental disasters, wars and conflict, food shortages, economic crises and environmental degradation among others, issues concerning forced migration are increasingly covered in the media, though often partially and rarely acknowledging the geopolitical and historical. The migration–development nexus has also been acknowledged and over the past years we have seen reasonable attention with the development literature infused within broader subjects of poverty reduction and humanitarian intervention (see for example Van Hear and Nyberg Sørensen, 2003; Faist et al., 2011). [excerpt]