This edited volume brings together leading experts from multi-disciplinary backgrounds to address the broad range of movements caused or occurring in the context of acute and slow-onset humanitarian crises.

Part One: Introduction and a Theoretical Perspective Chapter 1: Setting the Scene Chapter 2: Conceptualizing "Crisis Migration": A Theoretical Perspective Part Two: Case Studies of Humanitarian Crises: Movements, Protection Implications and Responses Chapter 3: Rising Waters, Broken Lives: Experience from Pakistan and Colombia Floods Suggests New Approaches are NeededChapter 4: Recurrent Acute Disasters, Crisis Migration: Haiti Has Had It All Chapter 5: Health Crises and Migration Chapter 6: Criminal Violence, Displacement, and Migration in Mexico and Central America Chapter 7: Intractability and Change in Crisis Migration: North Koreans in China and Burmese in Thailand Chapter 8: Environmental Processes, Political Conflict and Migration: A Somali Case Study Chapter 9: Environmental Stress, Displacement and the Challenge of Rights Protection Chapter 10: Enhancing Adaptation Options and Managing Human Mobility in the Context of Climate Change Chapter 11: Community Relocations: The Arctic and South Pacific Chapter 12: Something Old and Something New: Resettlement in the Twenty First Century Part Three: At Risk Populations Chapter 13: Protecting Non-Citizens in Situations of Conflict, Violence, and Disaster Chapter 14: 'Trapped' Populations: Controls on Mobility at Times of Crises Chapter 15: Policy Adrift: The Challenge of Mixed Migration By Sea Chapter 16: Flight to the Cities: Urban Options and Adaptations Part Four: Governance Chapter 17: The Global Governance of Crisis Migration