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Joanne van Selm

 

Joanne van Selm is Senior Policy Analyst at the Migration Policy Institute, a Washington DC based think tank devoted to the study of international migration. In this capacity, Dr van Selm focuses on issues of refugee protection, most particularly in Europe, and questions of migration management. Dr van Selm is also affiliated as an Associate Professor to the University of Amsterdam. s Department of Political Science and the Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies at the same University. She has held that post since 1998.

 

Dr van Selm is co-editor of Oxford University Press. Journal of Refugee Studies, a leading multi-disciplinary journal with an academic and practitioner readership worldwide. She is also on the Executive Committee of the International Association for the Study of Forced Migration, for which she ran the Programme of its January 2001 conference on The Refugee Convention at 50 hosted at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa.

 

Dr van Selm. s publications include the volumes Kosovo. s Refugees in the European Union (London: Pinter, 2000 - edited) and Refugee Protection in Europe: lessons of the Yugoslav Crisis (The Hague: Kluwer Law International, 1998). She has also published some twenty articles and book chapters on global migration, European integration in asylum and migration affairs, Dutch politics and international refugee policies. In 2001 she wrote the background paper . Access to Procedures: . safe third countries. , . safe countries of origin. and time limits. for UNHCR. s Global Consultations on Refugee Protection.  Her teaching has included courses on Global Migration; Refugee Protection in Europe; Humanitarian Issues; Introduction to International Relations; International Political Economy and European Integration.

 

Educated in the UK, with a PhD and MA in International Relations from the University of Kent at Canterbury and a BA in European Studies from the University of Hull (including study at the Université de Tours-Orleans, France), Dr van Selm has previously been employed as a lecturer in International Relations at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, and in the NGO sector at the World University Service and the Foundation on Inter-Ethnic Relations. She has also worked as an intern at the European Commission. s Secretariat General, dealing with matters of Justice and Home Affairs.