Table of Contents

1. Introduction: Global Migration Governance ; 2. Low-Skilled Migration ; 3. High-Skilled Labour Migration ; 4. Irregular Migration ; 5. International Travel ; 6. Lifestyle Migration ; 7. Environmental Migration ; 8. UNHCR and the Global Governance of Refugees ; 9. Internally Displaced Persons ; 10. Human Trafficking and Smuggling ; 11. Remittances ; 12. Diasporas ; 13. Root Causes ; Conclusion

About the Author

Alexander Betts is Director of the MacArthur Foundation-funded Global Migration Governance project, a Fellow of Wadham College, and Hedley Bull Research Fellow in International Relations, University of Oxford. His research focuses on the international politics of migration and refugee protection, with a geographical focus on Sub-Saharan Africa. He is the author of many books, including UNHCR: The Politics and Practice of Refugee Protection into the Twenty-First Century (with Gil Loescher and James Milner, Routledge, 2008), Forced Migration and Global Politics (Wiley-Blackwell, 2009), Protection by Persuasion: International Cooperation in the Refugee Regime (Cornell University Press, 2009), and Refugees in International Relations (with Gil Loescher, Oxford University Press, 2010). His work has been published in a range of peer reviewed journals.