Description
Book Synopsis 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.
Table of Contents List of Figures
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
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
