The field of crisis and disaster studies has proliferated over the past two decades. Attention
is bound to grow further as the world negotiates the prolonged challenges of the Covid‐19 …

This article reviews the economics literature on the impacts of forced migration. The
literature is divided into two parts: impacts on forced migrants and impacts on host …

A significant outcome of the global crisis for refugees has been the abandonment of forced
migrants to live in makeshift camps inside the EU. This paper details how state authorities …

The first edition of Research Methods in International Relations was published in 2015, at a
time when there were few introductory International Relations (IR) textbooks that introduced …

Conducting research in conflict environments is a challenge, given their complexity and
common attitudes of distrust and suspicion. Yet, conflict and methodology are usually …

Refugees have rarely been studied by economists. Despite some pioneering research on
the economic lives of refugees, there remains a lack of theory and empirical data through …

This paper highlights some of the central ethical challenges involved in undertaking social
science research with refugees in conflict and crisis situations. It focuses on two main sets of …

Ethics in social work research increasingly recognises that the rights and interests of
subjects must be primary. The principal aim is to ensure that the subjects of research are …

Ethical complexities associated with research involving vulnerable and marginalized
population groups are well recognized, while practical solutions to these challenges are …

Given that research into forced migration is looking at processes of enormous human
suffering and often involves working with people who are extremely vulnerable to …