Title:	Forced Migration & Mortality
Authors:	E. Reed, Holly
Keywords:	Refugees—Mortality—Congresses
Issue Date:	2001
Publisher:	National Academy Press
Description:	Over the last few years, there has been a growing appreciation of the need for more information about complex humanitarian emergencies in order to develop understanding about and more effective reactions to such events. The number, frequency, magnitude, and sheer difficulty of forced migrations in recent history have contributed to the need for more data. In addition, operational personnel realize that cumulative knowledge does not simply emerge from repetitions of prior experience. Insight, better protocols, and more effective reactions require analysis, comparison, and testing new approaches. To accomplish this, the field needs systematic data collection to assess behaviors, to ask questions, and to formulate alternatives. Demographers and epidemiologists can provide some of these services. These population-related disciplines have long histories of applied work, based on the mathematical and statistical methods they have developed. They have not built up a cumulative body of knowledge, however, about complex emergencies. In response to the need for more information about the measurement and estimation of displaced populations and their vital rates, the Committee on Population held a workshop on the demography of forced migration in 1998. The report of this workshop, published in 1999, summarized the field and suggested some potential directions for further research, as identified by participants. As there was an obvious need for a vehicle for further exploration of these topics and others, the Committee on Population, with support from he Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, developed the Roundtable on the Demography of Forced Migration. The Roundtable provides a forum in which a diverse group of experts can discuss the state of knowledge about demographic structures and processes among people who are forced to move, whether to escape war and political violence, to flee famine and other natural disasters, or by government projects or programs that destroy their homes and communities. The Roundtable’s task is often confounded by definition problems (e.g., what is “forced migration”), and by a lack of data or data whose representatives is unknown.
URI:	http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/54783
ISBN:	0-309-07334-0
Appears in Collections:	Population Studies

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