Refugee Economies: Forced Displacement and Development, with Louise Bloom, Josiah Kaplan, Naohiko Omata, Oxford University Press 2016.Mobilising the Diaspora: How Refugees Challenge Authoritarianism, with Will Jones, Cambridge University Press, 2016.Implementation in World Politics: How Norms Change Practice, co-edited with Phil Orchard Oxford University Press, 2014.Survival Migration: Failed Governance and the Crisis of Displacement Cornell University Press, 2013.UNHCR: The Politics and Practice of Refugee Protection, with Gil Loescher and James Milner Routledge, 2012.Global Migration Governance, Oxford University Press, 2011.Refugees in International Relations, co-edited with Gil Loescher, Oxford University Press 2010,.Forced Migration and Global Politics, Wiley-Blackwell, 2009.Protection by Persuasion: International Cooperation in the Refugee Regime, Cornell University Press, 2009.
He was also a Councillor on the Canadian-funded World Refugee Council. He serves on DFID's migration contact group, IOM's academic advisory board, and UNDP's advisory group on migration and displacement. He has served as an advisor to a range of governments (including the Government of Colombia on the Venezuelan refugee crisis), businesses, and international organisations (including UNHCR, IOM, and UNICEF). His TED talk on refugees was named by the curator of TED Chris Anderson as one of the top 10 TED talks of 2016. He has given TED talks on refugees and Brexit with combined views in excess of 3.5 million. He has appeared on CNN, the BBC, and Al Jazeera.
His writing has been published in The Guardian, The New York Times, and Foreign Affairs. He was a prolific public commentator during the European migrant crisis. He is Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA) and of the Academy of Social Sciences (FAcSS). He has received fellowships and grants from the British Academy, the MacArthur Foundation, and the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), among others. He was named in Foreign Policy magazine's top 100 global thinkers in 2016, as a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader in 2016, in Thinkers 50's radar list of emerging business influencers in 2017, as a Bloomberg Businessweek 'gamechanger' in 2017, and as a European Young Leader by Friends of Europe in 2020. Since 2017, he has led the Refugee Economies Programme at the University of Oxford, which is funded by the IKEA Foundation, which supports the socio-economic inclusion of refugees through a longitudinal study following the economic lives of 15,000 refugees and host community members in Ethiopia, Kenya, and Uganda. The pilot was described by News Deeply as “one of the most important economic experiments in the world today”. The proposal adopted as a pilot project by Jordan, the UK, the EU, and the World Bank, which became known as the 'Jordan Compact’. They developed an idea to employ Syrian refugees in already existing Special Economic Zones in Jordan, first published in a piece in Foreign Affairs. Together with Paul Collier, he has argued for a new approach to refugee assistance based on development rather than just humanitarianism. He is perhaps best known for his research reframing refugees as economic contributors. His ideas have had a notable impact on refugee policy. In 2017, he co-authored Refuge: Transforming a Broken Refugee System with Paul Collier, which was recognised by The Economist as one of the best books of 2017, and was final shortlisted for the Estoril Global Issues Distinguished Book Prize. His books include Protection by Persuasion: International Cooperation in the Refugee Regime (Cornell University Press, 2009), Refugees in International Relations (Oxford University Press, 2010), Global Migration Governance (Oxford University Press, 2011), Survival Migration: Failed Governance and the Crisis of Displacement (Cornell University Press, 2013), Mobilising the Diaspora: How Refugees Challenge Authoritarianism (Cambridge University Press, 2016), Refugee Economies: Forced Displacement and Development (Oxford University Press, 2016), and The Global Governed? Refugees as Providers of Protection and Assistance (Cambridge University Press, 2020). He has also written on migration and humanitarianism. He is a British academic, whose research focuses mainly on the politics and economics of refugee assistance. He then completed a MSc at Bristol University, followed by an MPhil and DPhil from the University of Oxford. Betts completed his undergraduate degree at Durham University.
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