Gil Loescher

Visiting Professor

Bio

Gil Loescher is Visiting Professor at the Refugee Studies Centre, Queen Elizabeth House, 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, D.C. In recent years he has been Senior Research Fellow, 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 organizations, foundations and research institutes. Loescher has been the recipient of numerous research, writing and teaching grants from the Ford Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Twentieth Century Fund, the US Institute for Peace, the MacArthur Foundation, the Fulbright programme, the British Academy, the Nuffield Foundation, the British Council and other foundations.

Publications

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Loescher, G. (2012) Human Rights and Forced Migration. In: Goodhart, M. (ed.) Human Rights: Politics and Practice. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Betts, A. Loescher, G. and Milner, J. (2012) UNHCR: The Politics and Practice of Refugee Protection. 2nd ed., Routledge.

Loescher, G. (2011) An Idea Lost in the Rubble.The New York Times, 20 August 2004 and The International Herald Tribune, 21 August 2004. Republished in The New York Times and The International Herald Tribune 3 April, 2011.

Loescher, G. (2011) The Global Crisis of Protracted Displacement, World Politics Review.

Loescher, G. and Milner, J. (2011) UNHCR and the Global Governance of Refugees. In: Betts A. (ed). Global Migration Governance. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 189-209.

Milner J. and Loescher, G. (2011) Responding to Protracted Refugee Situations: Lessons from a Decade of Discussion. Oxford: Refugee Studies Centre. Policy Briefing Series, 6.

Betts, A. and Loescher, G. (2011) Refugees in International Relations. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Betts, A. and Loescher, G. (2011) Refugees in International Relations. In: Betts, A. and Loescher, G. Refugees in International Relations. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1-29.

Loescher, G. and Milner, J. (2009) Understanding the challenge. Forced Migration Review.

Loescher, G. (2009) A Universal Mandate to Protect: the Challenge of Refugee Protection. Harvard International Review, 31 (3), 44-50.

Loescher, G. (20090 Human Rights and Forced Migration. In: Goodhart M. (ed.) Human Rights: Politics and Practice. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Loescher, G. Milner, J. Newman, E. and Troeller, G. (2008) Protracted refugee situations: politics, human rights and security dimensions. United Nations University Press and Brookings Institution Press.

Loescher, G. Betts, A. and Milner, J. (2008) UNHCR: the politics and practice of refugee protection into the 21st Century. Routledge, Global Institutions Series.

Loescher, G. Milner, J. Newman E. and Troeller, G. Protracted refugee situations and the regional dynamics of peacebuilding. Conflict, Security and Development, 7 (3).

Loescher, G. (2006) Protracted refugee situations: the search for practical solutions. In: The State of the Worlds Refugees. Oxford University Press and UNHCR

Loescher, G. and Milner, J. (2006) Burma: refugees and regional relations. World Today, 62 (7).

Loescher, G. and Milner, J. (2005) Protracted refugee situations: domestic and international security implications. Adelphi Paper, 375. London: Taylor and Francis for the International Institute for Strategic Studies.

Loescher, G. and Milner, J. (2005) The long road home: protracted refugee situations in Africa. Survival, 47 (2).

Loescher, G. (2005) Blaming the victim: refugees and global security. In: McGraw Hill/Dushkin (2005) Annual Editions on Development.

Loescher, G. (2005) Threatened are the peacemakers. Notre Dame Magazine.

Loescher, G. (2005) On the Human Cost of War. Saint Mary's College Magazine.

Loescher, G. and Milner, J. (2004) Protracted refugee situations and regional and host state security. Conflict, Security and Development, 4 (1).

Loescher, G. (2004) Refugee protection and state security: towards greater convergence. In:Price, R.and Zacher, M. (eds.) The United Nations and Global Security. New York: Palgrave/ St. Martins.

Loescher, G. Steiner, N.and Gibney, M. (2003) Problems of protection: the UNHCR, refugees and human rights in the 21st Century. Routledge.

Loescher, G. (2003) Refugees as grounds for international action. In: Newman, E. and van Selm, J. (eds.) Refugees and Forced Displacement: International Security, Human Vulnerability and the State. United Nations University Press.

Loescher, G. (2003) UNHCR, refugee protection and world politics. In: Loescher, G. Steiner, N.and Gibney, M. Problems of protection: the UNHCR, refugees and human rights in the 21st Century. Routledge.

Loescher, G. (2003) The Need to Address Conditions in Regions of Refugee Origin. In: Gelsthorpe, V. and Herlitz, L. (eds.) Listening to the Evidence: the future of UK resettlement. London: UK Home Office.

Loescher, G. (2003) The Missing Link: The Need for Comprehensive Engagement in Regions of Refugee Origin. International Affairs.

Loescher, G. (2003) The dangers and difficulties of protection zones in regions of origin. In: Exile. British Refugee Council.

Loescher, G. (2003) A Disaster Waiting to Happen. Observer, 2 February.

Loescher, G. (2003) Be Prepared. In: The World Today. London: Royal Institute for International Affairs.

Loescher, G. (2003) Humanitarian Consequences of War in Iraq: Uncertainties, Inadequate Preparation and Planning. Center for Comparative Immigration Studies, University of California at San Diego.

Loescher, G. (2002) Wests finger is on the trigger, but will it help Iraqi victims?,The Times Higher Education Supplement.

Loescher, G. (2002) State Responses to Refugees and Asylum Seekers in Europe. In: Messina, A. (ed.) West European Immigration and Immigrant Policy in the New Century. Praeger.

Loescher, G. (2001) The UNHCR and world politics: a perilous path. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Loescher, G. (2001) UNHCR and World Politics: State Pressures and Institutional Autonomy. International Migration Review, Special UNHCR 50th Anniversary Issue.

Loescher, G. (2001) Protection and Humanitarian Action in the Post Cold War Period. In: Zolberg, A. and Benda P. (eds.) Global Migrants, Global Refugees. Berghan Publishers.

Loescher, G. (2000) The International Refugee Regime in Need of Reform. In: Ghosh B. (ed.) Managing Migration: Time for a new international Regime? Oxford University Press.

Loescher, G. (1993) Beyond charity: international cooperation and the global refugee problem. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Loescher, G. (1992) Refugee movements and international security. Adelphi Paper, 268. London: Brassey's for the International Institute for Strategic Studies.

Loescher, G. (1992) (ed.) Refugees and the asylum dilemma in the West. Pennsylvania: Penn State University Press.

Loescher, G. and Monahan, L. (1989) Refugees and international relations. Oxford and New York: The Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press.

Loescher, G. and Nichols, B. (1989) The moral nation: humanitarianism and U.S. foreign policy today. Notre Dame and London: University of Notre Dame Press.

Loescher, G. and Scanlan, J. Calculated kindness: refugees and Americas half-open door, 1945 to the present. New York and London: The Free Press.