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
Loescher, G, “An Idea Lost in the Rubble”, The New York Times op-ed (August 20, 2004) and The International Herald Tribune op-ed, (August 21, 2004) republished as a classic op-ed in The New York Times and The International Herald Tribune April 3, 2011.
Loescher, G, "The Global Crisis of Protracted Displacement," World Politics Review, February 2011
Loescher, G and J. Milner, "UNHCR and the Global Governance of
Refugees" in A. Betts (ed) Global Migration Governance, Oxford
University Press, 2011, 189-209
J Milner and G Loescher, "Responding to Protracted Refugee Situations:
Lessons from a Decade of Discussion," Forced Migration Policy Briefing
6, January 2011
A Betts and G Loescher, Refugees in International Relations, Oxford University Press, 2011
A Betts and G Loescher, "Refugees in International Relations," in A. Betts and G. Loescher, Refugees in International Relations, Oxford University Press, 2011, 1-29
Loescher, G, J Milner, “Understanding the challenge”, Forced Migration Review, September 2009
Loescher, G, ‘A Universal Mandate to Protect: the Challenge of Refugee Protection’, Harvard International Review, 31(3): 44-50, Fall 2009
Loescher, G, ‘Human Rights and Forced Migration’ in M Goodhart (ed), Human Rights: Politics and Practice, Oxford University Press, 2009
Loescher, G, J Milner, E Newman and G Troeller, Protracted refugee situations: politics, human rights and security dimensions, United Nations University Press and Brookings Institution Press, 2008
Loescher, G, A Betts and J Milner, UNHCR: the politics and practice of refugee protection into the 21st Century, Routledge, Global Institutions Series, 2008
Loescher, G, J Milner, E Newman and G Troeller, ‘Protracted refugee situations and the regional dynamics of peacebuilding’, Conflict, Security and Development, 7(3), October 2007
Loescher, G, ‘Protracted refugee situations: the search for practical solutions’ in The State of the World’s Refugees, Oxford: Oxford University Press and UNHCR, 2006
Loescher, G and J Milner, ‘Burma: refugees and regional relations’, World Today, 62(7), 2006
Loescher, G and J Milner, ‘Protracted refugee situations: domestic and international security implications’, Adelphi Paper 375, London: Taylor and Francis for the International Institute for Strategic Studies, 2005
Loescher, G and J Milner, ‘The long road home: protracted refugee situations in Africa’, Survival 47(2), 2005
Loescher, G, ‘Blaming the victim: refugees and global security’ in McGraw Hill/Dushkin Annual Editions on Development, 2005
Loescher, G, ‘Threatened are the peacemakers’, Notre Dame Magazine, Spring 2005
Loescher, G, ‘On the Human Cost of War’, Saint Mary's College Magazine, Fall 2005
Loescher, G and J Milner, ‘Protracted refugee situations and regional and host state security’, Conflict, Security and Development 4(1), 2004
Loescher, G, ‘Refugee protection and state security: towards greater convergence’ in R Price and M Zacher (eds), The United Nations and Global Security, New York: Palgrave/ St. Martins, 2004
Loescher, G, N Steiner and M Gibney, Problems of protection: the UNHCR, refugees and human rights in the 21st Century, Routledge, 2003
Loescher, G, ‘Refugees as grounds for international action’, in E Newman and J van Selm (eds), Refugees and Forced Displacement: International Security, Human Vulnerability and the State, United Nations University Press, 2003
Loescher, G, ‘UNHCR, refugee protection and world politics’, in Loescher, G, N Steiner and M Gibney , Problems of protection: the UNHCR, refugees and human rights in the 21st Century, Routledge, 2003
Loescher, G, ‘The Need to Address Conditions in Regions of Refugee Origin’ in V Gelsthorpe and L Herlitz, (eds), Listening to the Evidence: the future of UK resettlement, London: UK Home Office, 2003
Loescher, G, ‘The Missing Link: The Need for Comprehensive Engagement in Regions of Refugee Origin’, International Affairs, 2003
Loescher, G, ‘The dangers and difficulties of ‘protection zones’ in regions of origin’, In Exile, British Refugee Council, July-August 2003
Loescher, G, ‘A Disaster Waiting to Happen’, Observer, 2 February 2003
Loescher, G, ‘Be Prepared’, The World Today, Royal Institute for International Affairs, London: February 2003
Loescher, G, ‘Humanitarian Consequences of War in Iraq: Uncertainties, Inadequate Preparation and Planning’, Center for Comparative Immigration Studies, University of California at San Diego, January 2003
Loescher, G, ‘West’s finger is on the trigger, but will it help Iraqi victims?’, The Times Higher Education Supplement, November 2002
Loescher, G, ‘State Responses to Refugees and Asylum Seekers in Europe’, in A Messina, (ed), West European Immigration and Immigrant Policy in the New Century, Praeger, 2002
Loescher, G, The UNHCR and world politics: a perilous path, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001
Loescher, G, ‘UNHCR and World Politics: State Pressures and Institutional Autonomy’, Special UNHCR 50th Anniversary Issue, International Migration Review, 2001
Loescher, G, ‘Protection and Humanitarian Action in the Post Cold War Period’, in A Zolberg and P Benda (eds), Global Migrants, Global Refugees, Berghan Publishers, 2001
Loescher, G, ‘The International Refugee Regime in Need of Reform’, in B Ghosh (ed), Managing Migration: Time for a new international Regime?, Oxford University Press, 2000
Loescher, G, Beyond charity: international cooperation and the global refugee problem, A Twentieth Century Fund Book, New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993
Loescher, G, ‘Refugee movements and international security’, Adelphi Paper 268, London: Brassey's for the International Institute for Strategic Studies, 1992
Loescher, G (ed), Refugees and the asylum dilemma in the West, Pennsylvania: Penn State University Press,1992
Loescher, G and L Monahan, Refugees and international relations, Oxford and New York: The Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press, 1989
Loescher, G and B Nichols, The ‘moral nation’: humanitarianism and U.S. foreign policy today, Notre Dame and London: University of Notre Dame Press, 1989
Loescher, G and J Scanlan, Calculated kindness: refugees and America’s half-open door, 1945 to the present with, New York and London: The Free Press, 1986
Further Information
Current projects:
UNHCR and the politics and practice of refugee protection
The politics, human rights and security dimensions of protracted refugee situations
Forced migration and conflict in the 21st century
+44 (0)1865 281708
gilbert.loescher@qeh.ox.ac.uk
Current projects:
Refugees in international relations
