Moore, Liam (2026) Settlement Elsewhere as a Solution for IDPs. In: Cantor, David, Bradley, Megan, Ekezie, Winifred, Pape, Utz, and Baal, Natalia, (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Internal Displacement. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK, pp. 497-506.

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Abstract

Settlement elsewhere is a third, often less utilized and researched category of durable solutions of internally displaced persons. It is distinguished by the lack of geographic or contextual limitations that define solutions of local integration and return—creating both a wealth of possibilities for its implementation and a level of complexity that this variability brings with it. Two key tensions created by this complexity are particularly highlighted here: how the right to return affects the implementation of settlement elsewhere as a durable solution and how the sedentary-bias of the solutions paradigm meshes with less binary and discrete forms of (im)mobilities that people engage in. The chapter then shifts to examining how resettlement works in practice, looking at examples that have been divided temporally between solutions that occur pre-emptively, reactively, and in response to protracted situations. The chapter culminates with a forward-looking assessment of the role relocations have to play in the context of climate mobilities. It concludes that as more people face climate-related mobilities and other displaced persons struggle to find solutions through methods of return or local integration, policymakers and practitioners should turn their attention not just to how to implement resettlement programs, but also to which type of resettlement is most applicable to a given situation.

Item ID:	91950
Item Type:	Book Chapter (Research - B1)
ISBN:	9780198928805
Copyright Information:	© Oxford University Press 2026
Date Deposited:	19 May 2026 01:26
FoR Codes:	44 HUMAN SOCIETY > 4406 Human geography > 440699 Human geography not elsewhere classified @ 35% 48 LAW AND LEGAL STUDIES > 4807 Public law > 480704 Migration, asylum and refugee law @ 35% 44 HUMAN SOCIETY > 4408 Political science > 440808 International relations @ 30%
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