The book assesses the importance of understanding the mobilities and immobilities involved in forced migration as well as assessing how contemporary understanding of mobilities can be enriched by considering the experiences of forced migrants.

This book was published a sa special issue of Mobilities.

Nick Gill is senior lecturer in human geography, Exeter University, UK.

Javier Caletrío is a researcher based at the Centre for Mobilities Research at Lancaster University, UK.

Victoria Mason is lecturer in the School of Politics and International Relations at the Australian National University.

1. Introduction: Mobilities and Forced Migration 2: Specters at the Port of Entry: Understanding State Mobilities through an Ontology of Exclusion 3: Reconsidering the Problem of 'Bogus' Refugees with 'Socio-economic Motivations' for Seeking Asylum 4: The Im/mobilities of Iraqi Refugees in Jordan: Pan-Arabism, 'Hospitality' and the Figure of the 'Refugee' 5 Confined Offline, Traversing Online Palestinian Mobility through the Prism of the Internet 6: Mobilising Images: Encounters of 'Forced' Migrants and the Bangladesh War of 1971 7: Governmentality in Motion: 25 Years of Ethiopia's Experience of Famine and Migration Policy 8. Statelessness and Environmental-Induced Displacement: Future Scenarios of Deterritorialisation, Rescue and Recovery Examined