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Dr Alexander Betts is University Lecturer in Refugee Studies and Forced Migration and a Fellow of Green-Templeton College at the University of Oxford, where he was previously the Hedley Bull Research Fellow in International Relations. His research focuses on the international politics of asylum and migration, with a geographical focus on Sub-Saharan Africa.
He is author or editor of numerous books, including Protection by Persuasion: International Cooperation in the Refugee Regime (Cornell University Press, 2009), Global Migration Governance (Oxford University Press, 2011), Refugees in International Relations (with Gil Loescher, Oxford University Press, 2011).
He has worked for UNHCR and as a consultant to the Council of Europe, IOM, and the Commonwealth Secretariat, and his work has been funded by, amongst others, the MacArthur Foundation, the Leverhulme Trust, and the Economic and Social Research Council. He has also served on the Executive Committee of the International Association for the Study of Forced Migration (IASFM) and has held teaching and research positions at Universite Libre de Bruxelles and Stanford University.
He received his MPhil (in Development Studies, with Distinction) and DPhil (in International Relations) from the University of Oxford.
Recent Publications:
Betts, A, Loescher, G and Milner, J, (2012), UNHCR: The Politics and Practice of Refugee Protection (Routledge).
Betts, A (2011), Global Migration Governance (Oxford University Press).
Betts, A and Loescher, G (2011), Refugees in International Relations (Oxford University Press)
Betts, A (2009), Protection by Persuasion: International Cooperation in the Refugee Regime (Cornell University Press)
Betts, A (2008), Forced Migration and Global Politics (Wiley-Blackwell).