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The UNHCR and the Afghan crisis : the making of the international refugee regime
Author
Uniform Title
HCR et la crise afghane. English.
Title
The UNHCR and the Afghan crisis : the making of the international refugee regime / Giulia Scalettaris.
ISBN
9781805391685
1805391682
9781805390817
Publication
New York : Berghahn, 2024.
Copyright Notice Date
©2024.
Physical Description
xi, 314 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Notes
Translation of: Le HCR et la crise afghane : une bureaucratie internationale à l'épreuve.
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"-- Provided by publisher.
Variant and related titles
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and the Afghan crisis.
Other formats
Online version: Scalettaris, Giulia. HCR et la crise afghane. English. UNHCR and the Afghan crisis New York : Berghahn, 2024
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
January 12, 2024
Series
Humanitarianism and security ; volume 3.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
An embedded bureaugraphy
The 'refugee problem' and the reality of Afghan Mobility
Cartography of a diffused presence
The institutional career of the ACSU Project
The insular cosmopolitanism of expatriate staff
Afghan staff, the brokers of the intervention
Selecting between non-nationals : negotiating the status of Afghans in Iran
Confronting state sovereignty : camp closure in Pakistan
Emplacing returnees in Afghanistan
The authority of expertise
Surveillance as protection
or protection as surveillance?.
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