ERC Consolidator Grant · 2025
Protect and Repress: The Logic of Government Responses to Internal Displacement
More than 117 million people are currently displaced by violence and persecution, the highest number ever recorded. Most never become refugees, instead remaining in their home countries as internally displaced people (IDPs). Yet the bulk of scholarly and policy attention is focused on refugees. We know quite a lot about how states respond to refugees, and comparatively little about how they treat IDPs. Therefore the question GRID asks is: What explains how and why governments respond to IDPs? We urgently need new conceptual, theoretical and empirical tools to answer this question. Government responses to the internally displaced vary widely. GRID develops a new conceptualization of these…
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