Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Martin, Susan F.

Titel

Forced Migration and Professionalism

Ist Teil von

• The International migration review, 2001-04, Vol.35 (1), p.226-243

Ort / Verlag

Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing Ltd

Erscheinungsjahr

2001

Quelle

Wiley-Blackwell Journals

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The complexity of forced migration calls for significant expertise with regard to prevention, responses and solutions. This article describes efforts since the early 1980s to professionalize the field. Professional development requires, at a minimum, that three things be in place: training; standards to govern professional competence; and a process for evaluation and improvement. Professional development must take into account the increasing complexity of humanitarian crises; changing notions of sovereignty that permit new solutions; changing mandates and responsibilities of organizations concerned with forced migration; and technological and communications innovations that enable new approaches to forced migration and professional training.