Forced Migration and Global Politics
Author: Alexander Betts
Print Length: 224 pages
Genre: Non-Fiction / International Relations, Political Science, Migration & Refugee Studies
Topic: Asylum & Asylum Seekers, Refugees & Forced Migration, Asylum & Refugee System, Refugee Management/Governance, Governance, Global System, International Cooperation, Globalization, Local & Global, Global North, Global South, Politics & Power, Geopolitics, Regionalism, Post 9/11, Economy, Security, Sovereignty, War on Terror, The European Union (EU)
Using real-world examples and in-depth case studies, Forced Migration and Global Politics systematically applies International Relations theory to explore the international politics of forced migration.
- Provides an accessible and thought-provoking introduction to the main debates and concepts in international relations and examines their relevance for understanding forced migration
- Utilizes a wide-range of real-world examples and in-depth case studies, including the harmonization of EU asylum and immigration policy and the securitization of asylum since 9/11
- Explores the relevance of cutting-edge debates in international relations to forced migration
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. International Relations Theories
2. Sovereignty and the State System
3. Security
4. International Cooperation
5. Global Governance
6. North–South Relations and the International Political Economy
7. Globalization
8. Regionalism
Bibliography
Index
Alexander Betts is Professor of Forced Migration and International Affairs, William Golding Senior Fellow in Politics at Brasenose College, University of Oxford. His research focuses on the political economy of refugee protection. He is particularly interested in refugees’ access to socio-economic rights and opportunities, and he has undertaken research across Africa and Europe, and also works on broader themes relating to the politics of migration and humanitarianism. He is author of 12 books and around 100 scholarly publications. His most recent book is The Wealth of Refugees: How Displaced People Can Build Economies (Oxford University Press, 2021), which was awarded the International Studies Association’s ‘Ethnicity, Nationalism, and Migration’ section Distinguished Book Award for 2022. His other books include Refuge: Transforming a Broken Refugee System (Penguin Allen Lane, 2017 with Paul Collier), which was named by the Economist among the ‘best books of 2017’ and The Global Governed? Refugees as Providers of Social Protection (Cambridge University Press, 2020, with Kate Pincock and Evan Easton-Calabria). He leads the IKEA Foundation-funded Refugee Economies Programme, which undertakes participatory research on the economic lives of refugees in Uganda, Kenya, and Ethiopia, and has created one of the first multi-country data sets focusing on the economic lives of refugees and host communities.
Source: https://www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/people/alexander-betts
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