The Concept of Internal Displacement and the Case for Internally Displaced Persons as a Category of Concern

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Journal Article The Concept of Internal Displacement and the Case for Internally Displaced Persons as a Category of Concern Get access Erin Mooney Erin Mooney Deputy Director, Brookings Institution-University of Bern Project on Internal Displacement and Senior Adviser to the Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General on the Human Rights of Internally Displaced Persons. Email: emooney@brookings.edu . The author is grateful to Megan Bradley for research assistance as well as to Roberta Cohen for providing comments helpful in the preparation of this article. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Refugee Survey Quarterly, Volume 24, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 9–26, https://doi.org/10.1093/rsq/hdi049 Published: 01 September 2005