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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.
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UNHCR faces deep budget cuts, interagency competition and violations of the Refugee Convention, says Alexander Betts, head of the Refugee Studies Centre, who charts a course that would see the agency survive and thrive.
Better understanding the unique economic position held by displaced peoples could transform policy concerning them, write authors Alexander Betts, Louise Bloom, Josiah Kaplan and Naohiko Omata in an extract from the pioneering study “Refugee Economies.”
In the concluding part of his preview of the U.N. Refugee Summit, Alexander Betts looks beyond “vague” outcome documents and lays out five potential catalysts to change the global refugee system.
In the first of a two-part prelude to the U.N. summit, Alexander Betts, the head of Oxford’s Refugee Studies Centre, plots the flawed origins of a meeting some states celebrate having sabotaged.
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