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James Milner

Refugees and forced migration; Global refugee policy; United Nations and global governance; Humanitarian action

• BA (Toronto) MPhil, DPhil (Oxford)
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Professor

James Milner is a Professor of Political Science at �Ӱ�ԭ�� University. He is currently Project Director of LERRN: The Local Engagement Refugee Research Network, a 6-year, SSHRC-funded partnership between researchers and displaced-led partner organizations. He is also Co-Chair of the , and Canada’s first . He has been a researcher, practitioner and policy advisor on issues relating to the global refugee regime, global refugee policy, meaningful refugee participation and the politics of asylum in the global South. He has undertaken field research in Burundi, Guinea, Kenya, India, Tanzania and Thailand, and has presented research findings to stakeholders in New York, Geneva, London, Ottawa, Bangkok, Nairobi, Dar es Salaam and elsewhere. He has worked as a Consultant for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in India, Cameroon, Guinea and its Geneva Headquarters. He is author of Refugees, the State and the Politics of Asylum in Africa (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009), co-author (with Alexander Betts and Gil Loescher) of UNHCR: The Politics and Practice of Refugee Protection (Routledge, 2012), and co-editor of Canada in the Global Refugee Regime (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2026), Refugees’ Roles in Resolving Displacement and Building Peace: Beyond Beneficiaries (Georgetown University Press, 2019) and Protracted Refugee Situations: Political, Human Rights and Security Implications (UN University Press, 2008).

Selected Publications

, Montreal: McGill-Queens University Press, co-edited with Nathan Benson and Delphine Nakache. 

, Refugee Survey Quarterly, May 2022, co-authored with Mustafa Alio and Rez Gardi.

“”,&�Բ�����;Journal of Refugee Studies, July 2021, co-authored with Richa Shivakoti.

, Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2019, co-edited with Megan Bradley and Blair Peruniak.

“”,&�Բ�����;World Refugee Council Research Paper No. 11, May 2019, with Alexander Betts.

“”,&�Բ�����;Refuge: Canada’s Journal on Refugees, Vol. 33, no. 1, March 2017, with Krystyna Wojnarowicz.