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I. INTRODUCTION

II. 'INTERNALLY DISPLACED PERSONS' - THE CATEGORY

2.1. IDPs and refugees

2.2. Internally displaced and other vulnerable groups on the ground

III. DYNAMICS OF INTERNAL DISPLACEMENT

3.1. Causes

3.2. Internal displacement and the international migration regime

IV. DEALING WITH IDPS

4.1. Institutional developments

4.2. Protection

4.3. Assisting and protecting the internally displaced: complex political spaces

V. SOLUTIONS TO INTERNAL DISPLACEMENT

VI. ACTOR ORIENTED PERSPECTIVES ON INTERNAL DISPLACEMENT

6.1. Social consequences for different groups of displaced people

6.2. Rebuilding lives and livelihoods

6.3. Relationships between people and places

VII. CONSEQUENCES OF THE IDP CATEGORY

7.1. Labels that include and exclude

7.2. Labels which essentialise social categories

VIII. IS THE IDP LABEL USEFUL?

IX. REFERENCES

X. ELECTRONIC RESOURCES

10.1. Academic and research

10.2. United Nations

Index of Research Guides