List of Figures
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations

Chapter 1. An Embedded Bureaugraphy
Chapter 2. The ‘Refugee Problem’ and the Reality of Afghan Mobility
Chapter 3. Cartography of a Diffused Presence
Chapter 4. The Institutional Career of the ACSU Project
Chapter 5. The Insular Cosmopolitanism of Expatriate Staff
Chapter 6. Afghan Staff, the Brokers of the Intervention
Chapter 7. Selecting between Non‐Nationals: Negotiating the Status of Afghans in Iran
Chapter 8. Confronting State Sovereignty: Camp Closure in Pakistan
Chapter 9. Emplacing Returnees in Afghanistan
Chapter 10. The Authority of Expertise
Chapter 11. Surveillance as Protection – or Protection as Surveillance?

Conclusion

Glossary
Bibliography
Index

The UNHCR and the Afghan Crisis

The Making of the International Refugee Regime

Giulia Scalettaris

326 pages, 16 ills., bibliog., index

ISBN 978-1-80539-168-5 Hb Published (November 2023)

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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.

Giulia Scalettaris is Assistant Professor in Political Science at the University of Lille, where she directs the Master in Humanitarian Affairs. She has worked with several international and non-governmental organizations in Kenya, France, Switzerland and Afghanistan.

Series: Volume 3, Humanitarianism and Security

Subject: Political and Economic Anthropology Refugee and Migration Studies

Area: Asia

BISAC: SOC066000 SOCIAL SCIENCE/Refugees; SOC002010 SOCIAL SCIENCE/Anthropology/Cultural & Social; POL035010 POLITICAL SCIENCE/Political Freedom & Security/Human Rights

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The UNHCR and the Afghan Crisis

The Making of the International Refugee Regime

Giulia Scalettaris

Series: Volume 3, Humanitarianism and Security

Subject: Political and Economic Anthropology Refugee and Migration Studies

Area: Asia

This title is published as Open Access

Full Text PDF | Full Text ePUB Made available under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license with support from Berghahn Open Migration and Development Studies initiative.

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The UNHCR and the Afghan Crisis

The Making of the International Refugee Regime

Giulia Scalettaris

Series: Volume 3, Humanitarianism and Security

Subject: Political and Economic Anthropology Refugee and Migration Studies

Area: Asia

This title is published as Open Access

Full Text PDF | Full Text ePUB Made available under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license with support from Berghahn Open Migration and Development Studies initiative.