An eye-opening account of the migrant crisis which shows why our global refugee regime is broken and how it can be fixed.
Alexander Betts (Author)
Alexander Betts is the Leopold W. Muller Professor of Forced
Migration and International Affairs at the University of Oxford,
where he is also Director of the Refugee Studies Centre. He has
written for the Guardian, New York Times and Foreign Affairs and
appears regularly on news channels including CNN, Al Jazeera, and
the BBC. He has also given two TED talks, which have garnered over
a million views.
Paul Collier (Author)
Paul Collier is the Professor of Economics and Public Policy at the
Blavatnik School of Government. He is the author of The Bottom
Billion, which won the Lionel Gelber Prize and the Arthur Ross
Prize awarded by the Council on Foreign Relations, The Plundered
Planet, Exodus and Refuge (with Alexander Betts). Collier has
served as Director of the Research Department of the World Bank,
and consults with the German and many other governments around the
world.
Refuge is the first comprehensive attempt in years to rethink from
first principles a system hidebound by old thinking and
hand-wringing. Its ideas demand a hearing
*Economist*
[A] brilliant polemic ... [Refuge] is very strong on diagnosis ...
[Betts and Collier] come up with a number of ingenious remedies
*Evening Standard*
Brilliant ... Instead of making the usual hand-wringing
humanitarian gestures, Betts and Collier have come up with some
mind-blowingly simple, practical solutions, particularly for
refugees from fragile or war-torn states
*Sunday Times*
This book is a rare and wonderful thing: a work of politically
engaged scholarship with a trenchant analysis and original
solutions ... Betts and Collier can look at the bigger picture.
They may thereby have helped to improve millions of lives
*Standpoint*
A brilliantly argued book... It's a call to action and it's
absolutely needed
*Sayeeda Warsi*
A page-turner
*BBC Asian Network*
Based on careful historical and economic analysis, Refuge proposes
win-win-win improvements for the world's 20 million international
refugees. The integration of refugees encamped across the borders
of their homelands into the economies of their hosts will
contribute to their hosts' development; dispel the refugees' loss
of hope; and further allow them to contribute to their homelands,
if it is ever safe for their return. Refuge is the seminal work on
one of the world's most important problems
*George Akerlof, Nobel Laureate in Economics 2001*
This book is both timely and radical. But is also down to earth and
practical. It is time to stop spouting the same old mantras about
the existing refugee conventions and look at how we can best
genuinely help refugees both now and in the future. Collier and
Betts point the way
*David Cameron, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
(2010-2016)*
Refugees and policy makers need practical answers to what is now a
global crisis. This valuable book represents the kind of can-do
thinking that we need to see
*David Miliband, International Rescue Committee*
This book is a must-read on one of the defining issues of our time.
As the number of refugees reaches record highs, Refuge takes us
beyond the simple emotional versus political split of the migration
debate, by offering smart, practical solutions to address the
global crisis. As such, every policymaker, and concerned citizen
should read it!
*Dambisa Moyo, author of 'Dead Aid' and 'Winner Takes All'*
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