Dr Victoria Mason

As the editors of this excellent interdisciplinary volume note, the Middle East with North Africa is both a major producer and host of refugees, hosting approximately 30 per cent of the world’s refugees (p. 276). A deeper understanding of forced migration in the region is required, especially in order for ‘human security, legal protection, coping, resilience, and resistance’ to better inform policy decisions (p. 13). To this end, the volume is divided into four thematic sections on displacement, repatriation, identity in exile and policy issues. Cutting across these sections, however, are a wealth of interlinked case studies highlighting the underlying complexities of these themes: Iraqi, Afghan, and Palestinian refugees, Turkish settlers in Northern Cyprus, and Sahrawi refugees...