People Changing Places: New Perspectives on Demography, Migration, Conflict, and the State

Praise for People Changing Places

This book is the first truly global analysis of how migration flows interact with culture, economics, and state authority to create conflict. Migration today is reshaping politics around the world; Cote, Mitchell, and Toft's volume cuts through the cliches and provides a nuanced understanding of how states can reduce or exacerbate the risks that arise from people on the move.

Jack A. Goldstone, George Mason University

This volume makes an important contribution to the literature on ethnic and civil wars. The authors challenge the current classification of domestic conflict by adopting a novel and underutilized theoretical framework that highlights the role of internal migration in triggering violence between the migrants and the indigenous inhabitants of a territory. . . . A must-read for anyone interested in both conflict and migration.

Jeannette Money, University of California-Davis

International agencies, governments, and NGOs too often miscalculate the long-term political implications of migration and resettlement - both for migrant and receiving communities. It is hardly their fault. Social scientists have yet to meld a body of theory that accounts for origins, identities, particular circumstances, and community relationships. People Changing Places takes up the task and makes important strides toward such a theory.

Richard Cincotta, PoliticalDemography.org; Woodrow Wilson Center

People Changing Places is essential reading for all scholars interested in migration and political demography more broadly. By weaving together both qualitative and quantitative research, as well as numerous case studies from the developing and the developed world, the authors add significantly to our knowledge about the often complex relationship between internal and external migration, demographic change, and the outbreak of violent conflict.

Elliott D. Green, London School of Economics