The UNHCR and the Afghan Crisis : The Making of the International Refugee Regime / Giulia Scalettaris.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Scalettaris, Giulia, Author.

Studies initiative, Berghahn Open Migration and Development, Author.

Contributor:

Studies initiative, funder.

Series:

Humanitarianism and Security Series

Humanitarianism and Security ; 3.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Refugees.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (326 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2023]

Language Note:

In English.

Biography/History:

Giulia Scalettaris is Assistant Professor in Political Science at the University of Lille, where she directs the Master in Humanitarian Affairs. She has worked with several international and non-governmental organizations in Kenya, France, Switzerland and Afghanistan. Giulia Scalettaris is Assistant Professor in Political Science at the University of Lille, where she directs the Master in Humanitarian Affairs. She has worked with several international and non-governmental organizations in Kenya, France, Switzerland and Afghanistan.

Summary:

Today the UNHCR is present in more than 130 countries and takes care of some 90 million people. This book looks at how it is deployed and who its agents are. By taking the reader through the offices in charge of the Afghan refugee crisis during the 2000s, in Geneva and in Kabul, the book shows the internal functioning of this international organization. It provides analysis of Afghan refugee policies from an original position, with the author being both agency official and anthropologist, and articulates multiple levels of analysis: the micropolitics of practices as much as the institution and the multi-scalar power relations that shape its environment.

Contents:

Intro

CONTENTS

List of Figures and Tables

Acknowledgements

List of Abbreviations

Introduction

Chapter 1. An Embedded Bureaugraphy

Chapter 2. The 'Refugee Problem' and the Reality of Afghan Mobility

Chapter 3. Cartography of a Diffused Presence

Chapter 4. The Institutional Career of the ACSU Project

Chapter 5. The Insular Cosmopolitanism of Expatriate Staff

Chapter 6. Afghan Staff, the Brokers of the Intervention

Chapter 7. Selecting between Non-nationals: Negotiating the Status of Afghans in Iran

Chapter 8. Confronting State Sovereignty: Camp Closure in Pakistan

Chapter 9. Emplacing Returnees in Afghanistan

Chapter 10. The Authority of Expertise

Chapter 11. Surveillance as Protection - or Protection as Surveillance?

Conclusion

Glossary

References

Index.

Notes:

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ISBN:

9781805390817

1805390813

OCLC:

1419788721