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

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

Humanitarian Innovation Project
Researcher(s): Alexander Betts, Jean-François Durieux, Louise Bloom, Naohiko Omata, Josiah Kaplan

Meeting humanitarian challenges in urban areas
Researcher(s): Roger Zetter

The liberal state and the expulsion of members: banishment, denationalisation and deportation
Researcher(s): Matthew J Gibney

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

South-South humanitarianism in contexts of forced displacement
Researcher(s): Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh

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): Gil Loescher, Roger Zetter, Dawn Chatty, Nisrine Mansour

UNHCR Mobile Registration unit

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