Refuge

Seventy years ago, the international community faced the largest

Today over half of the world’s refugees are in ‘protracted refugee situations’ and for them the average length of stay is over two decades. People are born into camps, grow up in camps, and become adults in camps.

Almost 90 per cent of refugees are in havens in the developing world,

For the first time in its history, Europe received a mass influx of refugees from outside of the European region.

Most host states place serious restrictions on the right to work;

the argument that refuge is as much a development issue as a humanitarian issue, the focus on restoring refugees’ autonomy through jobs and education, the emphasis on creating sustainable safe havens in the countries that host the majority of the world’s refugees, the recognition of a role for business alongside government and civil society, and th

Reflecting its intention, the legal definition of a refugee was someone who is outside her or his country of nationality and faces a ‘well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion’. It was unambiguously a product of its time and place, explicitly tempor

What changed was that, for the first time, refugees moved spontaneously in large numbers from the poorer regions of the world to the richest.

One of the main themes in this book is the idea that refuge must be understood as not only a humanitarian issue but also one of development. Put simply, it is not just about indefinitely providing food, clothing, and shelter. It has to be about restoring people’s autonomy through jobs and education, particularly in the countries in the developing w

We live in disturbed times. There are more people displaced than at any time since the Second World War. Most of these 65 million uprooted people remain within their own countries, but nearly a third – over 20 million – had no alternative but to cross a border. When they did, they became refugees.