This paper discusses some current issues and needs related to involuntary migrants in the South, namely, the primary causes of their displacement; the changing character of displacements; the durable solutions and not-so-durable solutions available to them; and the changing attitudes towards refugees and displaced persons in countries of origin, in countries of first asylum, among traditional resettlement countries, and among the international community in general. The author focuses specifically upon one refugee and displaced person emergency in the South which is currently very much at centre stage, that of Somalia; for in the author's view, the region is a vivid, albeit extreme microcosm of most of the changing dimensions of the South's problem of involuntary migrants. © 1993 Oxford University Press.

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