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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.

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.

Je présente ici la démarche théorique et méthodologique qui m'a permis de développer une approche à la fois empirique et englobante de l'Agence des Nations unies pour les réfugiés (HCR). En m'appuyant sur une ethnographie embarquée et des outils d'analyse issus de l'anthropologie politique j'ai étudié le fonctionnement interne de l'organisation et les relations dans lesquelles sont pris ses agents et ses bureaux, ce qui m'a permis de saisir aussi la portée de l'action planétaire de l'organisation des années 2000. En plus de souligner le renouveau théorique que connaît l'anthropologie lorsqu'elle déploie ses méthodes pour étudier des institutions bureaucratiques, le terme de « bureaugraphie » fait ressortir l'importance que l'infrastructure matérielle de l'organisation a eu au niveau de la construction de l'objet HCR et dans l'analyse de mes données. Après une introduction sur le renouveau des études consacrées aux organisations internationales, j'explique comment j'ai pu « désinstituer » le HCR et envisager son dispositif bureaucratique éclaté comme un terrain. Ensuite, je montre la manière dont j'ai délimité le périmètre de mon enquête et décris les procédés qui m'ont permis de passer d'une observation localisée à une réflexion englobante. Enfin, je relate le parcours de distanciation épistémologique qu'il m'a fallu entreprendre pour identifier, dans la production de savoirs experts, une forme d'autorité majeure de l'organisation.

The way that mobility is dealt with in respect of protracted refugee situations shows a gap between social practices and international policies. Adapted from the source document.

AbstractDrawing on a review of the academic literature on return migration and return migration policies, as well as on reports and project documentation, this article provides a general assessment of return schemes from European countries, with a focus on those targeting failed asylum‐seekers and irregular migrants. The article first highlights the contrasted understanding of return and reintegration by migration policy‐makers and migration scholars respectively. It then provides an overview of the main challenges, focusing on seven key issues: preparedness to return, the imbalance of represented interests, legal mobility, conditions in the countries of origin, the reintegration package, integration in Europe, and the specific obstacles to return faced by failed asylum‐seekers. The article highlights the need to reassess return policies and frame more realistic schemes.

The report sets out to provide a better understanding of the emerging challenges in policy targeting the labour-market integration of refugees. What are the strategies and practices implemented in different EU Member States to facilitate access into employment? What do we know about their effectiveness? What are good practices and lessons learned in different countries? The study is based on nine detailed country case studies of the following EU Member States: Austria, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom. It has been produced by the Migration Policy Centre (MPC) at the European University Institute in Florence. ; This study has been funded by Bertelsmann Stiftung and produced by the Migration Policy Centre at the EUI.

The study sets out to provide a better understanding of the emerging challenges in policy targeting the labour-market integration of refugees. What are the strategies and practices implemented in different EU Member States to facilitate access into employment? What do we know about their effectiveness? What are good practices and lessons learned in different countries? The study is based on nine detailed country case studies of the following EU Member States: Austria, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom. It has been produced by the Migration Policy Centre (MPC) at the European University Institute in Florence. ; This study has been funded by Bertelsmann Stiftung and produced by the Migration Policy Centre at the EUI.