ABSTRACT

This article analyses conflict-induced displacement. It considers how conflict-induced displacement is different from other categories of migration, and examines why these categories are important to understanding displacement. In addition to looking at how displacement literature understands definitions, conceptions, and causes of conflict-induced displacement, it compares and contrasts understandings of conflict-induced displacement to disaster- and development-induced displacement. The chapter then highlights responses that are taken to conflict-induced displacement, namely the global refugee regime, and discusses theoretical lenses applied to the study of conflict-induced displacement, as well as criticisms of how it is studied. The article ultimately argues that the lens of conflict-induced displacement still offers an important approach to understanding the root causes of displacement.