Alexander Betts is professor of forced migration and international affairs and director of the Refugee Studies Centre at the University of Oxford. In June 2016 he gave a TED talk on Brexit. Will Jones is departmental lecturer in forced migration at the Refugee Studies Centre at the University of Oxford. He is also a lecturer in the politics of sub-Saharan Africa at Hertford College, co-convenor of the Oxford Central Africa Forum and a junior research fellow at Balliol College. https://www.newsdeeply.com/refugees/contributor/108376/rss en Refugee Voices Wed, 04 Jan 2017 13:23:28 +0000 Alexander Betts and Will Jones https://www.newsdeeply.com/refugees/articles/2017/01/04/the-political-lives-of-refugees https://www.newsdeeply.com/refugees/articles/2017/01/04/the-political-lives-of-refugees Refugees are not passive, apolitical victims, say Oxford University’s Alexander Betts and Will Jones in their new book ‘Mobilising the Diaspora.’ In an extract, they examine the political lives of exiles and how they are often shaped by the ambivalent role of outsiders.