44. What's the role of the UNHCR?
Feb 16, 2021•22 min
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Episode description
The UNHCR plays a critical role in the protection of refugees. Yet while the UNHCR seeks to pressure states into providing aid and protection to refugees, it is also funded by states. What does this tension mean? How has the role of the UNHCR changed and how does it brand itself?
In this episode: Jeff Crisp, Research Associate at the Refugee Studies Centre at the University of Oxford https://www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/people/jeff-crisp-1
Work mentioned: https://brill.com/view/journals/gg/26/3/article-p359_1.xml
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