Refugees: From asylum to ‘management’

By the end of April 2025, more than 122 million people were displaced around the world, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).

- NEHA BHATT

On the Margins of Protection, edited by Paula Banerjee, aims to provide a fresh perspective to the longstanding crisis of displaced people, while challenging the ways in which we have understood the global problem.

The book's origins date back to 2015, called the “summer of migrations”, when Europe experienced thousands of Syrian refugees attempting to make it across the sea to the continent. This crisis led to the reevaluation of the refugee management paradigm and two Global Compacts, one for refugees and the other for migrants.

This collection of essays is a response to the deliberations driven by the UNHCR on the Global Compact on Refugees.