Examining resettlement practices worldwide and drawing on contributions from anthropology, law, international relations, social work, and numerous other disciplines, this ground-breaking volume highlights the conflicts between refugees' needs and state practices, and assesses international, regional and national perspectives on resettlement, as well as the bureaucracies and ideologies involved. It offers a detailed understanding of resettlement, from the selection of refugees to their long-term integration in resettling states, and highlights the relevance of a lifespan approach to resettlement analysis.

"This edited collection promises to become a standard read for anyone interested in the topic of resettlement. The book offers a much-needed critical take on the problematic fusion of (quasi-)humanitarian and control-oriented politics that characterizes today's global migration and refugee management.... [and] the authors offer a well-informed insight into how resettlement has been conceptualized and reformed in recent decades." Martin Geiger, Carleton University

a Adele Garnier is a lecturer at the Department of Modern History, Politics and International Relations, Macquarie University, Australia. Liliana Lyra Jubilut is Professor of the Postgraduate Programme in Law at Universidade Catolica de Santos and a Member of the IOM Migration Research Leaders Syndicate. Kristin Bergtora Sandvik is a Research Professor in Humanitarian Studies at PRIO and a Professor at the Faculty of Law at the University of Oslo.