Survival migration: failed governance and the crisis of displacement

The talk, based on Betts' new book, will explore the challenge of responding to new drivers of cross-border displacement that fall outside the existing refugee framework. Rather than beginning with particular causes of displacement – whether environmental change, food insecurity or generalized violence – it offers a human rights-based framework through which to critically consider who, in a changing world, should be entitled to cross an international border and seek asylum.

Dr Betts' talk is the first in the Michaelmas Term 2013 RSC Public Seminar Series, 'Refugees within the politics of mobility'.