In river deltas, human interference with regional and global socio-ecological systems has led to a plethora of gradual more abrupt environmental changes that result in inundation, coastal bank erosion, land loss and, ultimately, displaced people. Often apolitically framed as protective, state-led transfer people new housing grounds, resettlement become common response such displacements. its pr...

In development and conservation projects that induce displacement resettlement, proponents increasingly focus on procedural justice. They assume this leads to recognition of displaced people’s expressed needs distributive By critically applying Robert Lake’s conceptualisation “justice as the subject planning”, paper examines ways current framing justice in resettlement planning assumes is a tec...

More than half of all refugees currently resettled in the United States are racial-ethnic-minority men. Yetrefugee health scholarship has not fully explored racial ethnic minority refugee men's encounters with resettlement environment norms about race, ethnicity and gender. This paper describes an intersectional-informed qualitative study daily stressors experienced by Black-African men to expl...

Many countries have reduced refugee admissions in recent years, part due to fears that refugees and asylum seekers increase crime rates pose a national security risk. Existing research presents ambiguous expectations about the consequences of resettlement on crime. We leverage natural experiment United States, where an Executive Order by president January 2017 halted resettlement. This policy c...

This study investigated whether historical proxies for poor nutrition early in life were associated with differences in body composition and height among adult Hmong refugees. Life history and anthropometric data were collected from a sample of 279 Hmong aged 18-51 years who were born in Laos or Thailand and resettled in French Guiana or the United States following the Second Indochina War. Ove...

BACKGROUND Climate change is projected to cause substantial increases in population movement in coming decades. Previous research has considered the likely causal influences and magnitude of such movements and the risks to national and international security. There has been little research on the consequences of climate-related migration and the health of people who move. OBJECTIVES In this r...