UNHCR: The Politics and Practice of Refugee Protection
Author: Alexander Betts, Gil Loescher and James Milner
Publisher: Routledge
Print Length: 198 pages
Genre: Non-Fiction / International Relations, Political Science, Migration & Refugee Studies
Topic: History, UNHCR, United Nations, Asylum & Asylum Seekers, Refugees & Forced Migration, Asylum & Refugee System, Environmental Refugees, Internally Displaced Person (IDP), Migrants, Challenges & Opportunities, Cold War & Post-Cold War, Politics & Power, Geopolitics, International Institutions, Policy & Practice, Peace, Development, Protection
This revised and expanded second edition of The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) continues to offer a concise and comprehensive introduction to both the world of refugees and the organizations that protect and assist them. This updated edition also includes: up to date coverage of the UNHCR’s most recent history and policy developments; evaluation of new thinking on issues such as working in UN integrated operations and within the UN peacebuilding commission; assessment of the UNHCR’s record of working for IDP’s (internally displaced persons); discussion of the politics of protection and its implications for the work of the UNHCR; outline of the new challenges for the agency including environmental refugees, victims of natural disasters and survival migrants.
Written by experts in the field, this is one of the very few books to trace the relationship between state interests, global politics, and the work of the UNHCR. This book will appeal to students, scholars, practitioners, and readers with an interest in international relations.
Table of Contents
List of figures
Foreword by the series editors
Foreword by António Guterres
Acknowledgments
List of abbreviations
Introduction
1. The origins of international concern for refugees
2. UNHCR in the Cold War, 1950-51
3. UNHCR in the post-Cold War Era
4. The politics and practice of UNHCR’s mandate
5. UNHCR as a global institution
6. New challenges
Conclusion: Towards the future
Notes
Select 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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Gil Loescher (1945-2020) was an American political scientist and Visiting Professor at the Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford. He is a long-established expert on international refugee policy. For over 25 years, he was Professor of International Relations at the University of Notre Dame in the United States and was a visiting fellow at Princeton University, LSE, Oxford and the Department of Humanitarian Affairs at the US State Department in Washington DC. In recent years Gil has been Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for International Studies, University of Oxford, Senior Fellow for Forced Migration and International Security at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London and a senior researcher at the European Council on Refugees and Exiles. He has served as a consultant to numerous governments, international organisations, non-governmental organisations, foundations and research institutes. Gil has been the recipient of numerous research, writing and teaching grants and has published more than 24 books and numerous journal publications.
Source: https://refugeeresearch.net/es/staff-members/gil-loescher/
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James Milner is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Carleton University. He is also currently Project Director of LERRN: The Local Engagement Refugee Research Network, a 7-year, SSHRC-funded partnership between researchers and civil society actors primarily in Canada, Jordan, Kenya, Lebanon and Tanzania. He has been a researcher, practitioner and policy advisor on issues relating to the global refugee regime, global refugee policy and the politics of asylum in the global South. In recent years, he has undertaken field research in Burundi, Guinea, Kenya, India, Tanzania and Thailand, and has presented research findings to stakeholders in New York, Geneva, London, Ottawa, Bangkok, Nairobi, Dar es Salaam and elsewhere. He has worked as a Consultant for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in India, Cameroon, Guinea and its Geneva Headquarters. He is author of Refugees, the State and the Politics of Asylum in Africa (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009), co-author (with Alexander Betts and Gil Loescher) of UNHCR: The Politics and Practice of Refugee Protection (Routledge, 2012), and co-editor of Refugees’ Roles in Resolving Displacement and Building Peace: Beyond Beneficiaries (Georgetown University Press, 2019) and Protracted Refugee Situations: Political, Human Rights and Security Implications (UN University Press, 2008).
Source: https://www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/people/james-milner
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