This book explores the multitude of interconnected factors causing displacements that compel people to move within their homelands or traverse various borders. It brings together historical and contemporary accounts and critical examinations of the displaced and articulates the commonalities in their lived experiences. It accomplishes the task of charting a new path in displacement studies by offering a number of studies from interdisciplinary and diverse methodological approaches.

Part 1: Neoliberal Globalisation and Displacement: States Displacing the Poor and the Marginal; Chapter 1: Dispossession, Placelessness, Home and Belonging: An Outline of a Research Agenda; Chapter 2: Neoliberal Development, Port Reform and Displacement: The Case of Kolkata and Haldia, West Bengal, India 1; Chapter 3: Youth on the Neoliberal Margins: Ethnography of Tourism-led Displacement in Kerala, South India; Chapter 4: Neoliberal Development and Displacement: Women's Experiences of Flight and Settlement in South Asia; Chapter 5: Aftermath of Dams and Displacement in India's Narmada River Valley: Linking Compensation Policies with Experiences of Resettlement; Chapter 6: Globalization and Occupational Displacement: Indian Artisans in the Global Economy; Part 2: Politics and Coercive Displacement: States Displacing Minorities and Indigenous Peoples; Chapter 7: The Land Issue on Banggi Island, Sabah, Malaysia: Deagrarianisation and Exclusion of the Bonggi; Chapter 8: Movement by Coercion: The Displacement of Indigenous Children in Australia; Chapter 9: Margin, Minorities, and a Political Economy of Displacement: The Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh 1; Part 3: Placeless Identities: Non-State Places and Floating Peoples; Chapter 10: Home-making and Regrounding: Lives of Bangladeshi Migrants on the Damodar Charlands of Lower Bengal, India; Chapter 11: Re-imagining 'Refugeehood': Reflections on Hmong Identity(ies) in the Diaspora; Chapter 12: Globalised Cartographies of Being: Literature, Refugees, and the Australian Nation; Chapter 13: Dispossession, Human Security, and Undocumented Migration: Narrative Accounts of Afghani and Sri Lankan Tamil Asylum Seekers