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In survival migration, betts outlines these failings, illustrates the enormous human suffering that results, and argues strongly for an expansion of protected categories. Alexander betts is university lecturer at the university of oxford. Failed governance and the crisis of displacement format. Failed governance and the crisis of displacement 1 by alexander. Aug 21, 2019 the states shift from a position of nonacknowledgment of a crisis in venezuela and migration at home to a oneyear policy brings to light changing political agendas. Betts coins the term survival migration to refer to people who are outside their country of origin because of an existential threat for which they have no access to a.
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