Governance
This research cluster explores the following questions:
- How is forced migration "governed" and how has the nature of its governance changed over time?
- What practices and policies are used by states, international organisations, and other actors to manage, control, or protect forced migrants or asylum seekers and to what effect?
- How do (and should) international and domestic actors cooperate in the face of forced migration?
- What motivates responses to forced displacement?
- How have conceptualisations of who is worthy of protection and assistance developed historically and what factors have driven these changing conceptualisattions?
- What spaces and opportunities exist for forced migrants to influence and change the structures that govern them?
Current research projects
Denationalisation and the liberal state: The revocation of citizenship in historical and political perspective
Researcher(s):
Matthew J. Gibney
Deportation and the development of citizenship
Researcher(s):
Matthew J. Gibney
Faith-based humanitarianism in contexts of forced migration
Researcher(s):
Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh
Global migration governance
Researcher(s):
Alexander Betts
Meeting humanitarian challenges in urban areas
Researcher(s):
Roger Zetter
The Nation Outside the State: Transnational exile in the African state system
Researcher(s):
Alexander Betts,
Will Jones
Refugees in international relations
Researcher(s):
Alexander Betts,
Gil Loescher
Stateless diasporas and migration and citizenship regimes in the EU
Researcher(s):
Nando Sigona,
Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh
Unlocking crises of protracted displacement for refugees and internally displaced persons
Researcher(s):
Roger Zetter,
Dawn Chatty,
Nisrine Mansour
UNHCR Mobile Registration unit, Colombia. UNHCR help people to apply for government identification cards — key to gaining access to state humanitarian aid, such as health care, education and credit and bank loans. (c) Smith, P./UNHCR
