Gender & Development special issue: migration

All over the world, individuals and families set out daily on a journey to a new life in a distant place. Some migration is undertaken with little or no choice - men, women and children fleeing in the face of violence which threatens lives and security. This migration can be seen as ‘forced’ - defined widely as referring to ‘the movements of refugees and internally displaced people (those displaced by conflicts) as well as people displaced by natural or environmental disasters, chemical or nuclear disasters, famine, or development projects’.