A Global View on Responses to Internal Displacement: Where to Go From Here?
The world needs an ambitious, forward-looking agenda on internal displacement now, one with better engagement, investment, and coordination.
September 30, 2024
Sarah Miller is a senior fellow with Refugees International where she helps manage the Labor Market Access initiative and leads engagement on IDP issues. She previously covered the Great Lakes and Horn of Africa, but has also worked, researched, and written on Latin America and the Middle East. She is interested in global governance questions around migration, and has consulted for UNHCR, the ILO, the World Bank, the IRC, and Mercy Corps. She has worked on refugee issues with think tanks and various NGOs, and is a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Sarah teaches with Georgetown University’s Institute for the Study of International Migration, and has taught for the University of London, Fordham University, Columbia University, and American University. She has published a range of books, articles, and reports on forced migration, and received her doctorate in International Relations from Oxford University in 2014. She also holds an MSc in Forced Migration from Oxford University, an MA in Social Sciences from the University of Chicago, and a BA in History, Spanish, and International Service from Valparaiso University.
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