Dr. Sarah Deardorff Miller

Bio

Sarah Deardorff Miller received her doctorate in international relations at Oxford University in 2014, where she focused on the role of UNHCR in protracted refugee situations. Her research interests include the politics of forced migration, protracted refugee situations, international humanitarian organisations and global governance. She has worked with various UN and nongovernmental organisations in Africa and Asia, and has worked and published with think tanks and research institutions in the USA and Europe. In 2015 she was a Franklin Fellow at the US Department of State, and she is now a Senior Fellow at Refugees International and adjunct faculty at Georgetown University. 

Selected publications

• Political and Humanitarian Responses to Syrian Displacement, Routledge, 2016. https://www.routledge.com/Political-and-Humanitarian-Responses-to-Syrian-Displacement/Deardorff-Miller/p/book/9781138209800
• UNHCR as a Surrogate State: Protracted Refugee Situations, Routledge, 2017.
• “The Role of Civil-Military-Police Coordination in Supporting Durable Solutions to Displacement.”  Co-authored with Elizabeth Ferris, Brookings-LSE Project on Internal Displacement (May 2015).  
• “Lessons from Global Public Policy Literature for the Study of Global Refugee Policy,” Review article, Journal of Refugee Studies 27(4), 2014.
• “Assessing the Impacts of Hosting Refugees,” Centre for International Governance Innovation, WRC Research Paper No. 4, 2018, https://www.cigionline.org/publications/assessing-impacts-hosting-refugees
• “Xenophobia toward Refugees and Other Forced Migrants,” Centre for International Governance Innovation, WRC Research Paper No. 5, 2018, https://www.cigionline.org/sites/default/files/documents/WRC%20Research%20Paper%20no.5.pdf
• “The Mobility Convention’s Contribution to Addressing Socioeconomic Issues in Protracted Refugee Situations,” Columbia Journal of Transnational Law 56(2): 303-312 (2018).
• “Evaluation of UNHCR’s Country Operations in Angola, Botswana and Namibia: Assessment of phasing down UNHCR presence during the period 2012-2016,” June 2018, ES/2018/01, UNHCR Evaluation Service.
• “Phasing Down and Out: The Murky Art of Leaving,” Refugees Deeply, March 2019, https://www.newsdeeply.com/refugees/community/2019/03/21/phasing-down-and-out-the-murky-art-of-leaving-protracted-refugee-crises
• “Quito III: What Regional Governments Must Do to Help Displaced Venezuelans,” Refugees International Issue Brief, April 2019, https://www.refugeesinternational.org/reports/2019/4/5/quito-iii-what-governments-must-do-to-help-displaced-venezuelans