Refuge: Rethinking Refugee Policy in a Changing World

by Alexander Betts and Paul Collier

Book Overview

Global refugee numbers are at their highest levels since the end of World War II, but the system in place to deal with them, based upon a humanitarian list of imagined "basic needs," has changed little. In Refuge, Paul Collier and Alexander Betts argue that the system fails to provide a comprehensive solution to the fundamental problem, which is how to reintegrate displaced people into society. Western countries deliver food, clothing, and shelter...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190659157
• ISBN13: 9780190659158
• Release Date: September 2017
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.1"