Crisis Management in a Crowded Humanitarian Space:  The Politics of Hosting Refugee Influxes

Peter L.J. Bos (2003)

This study examines the politics of refugee crisis management during the 1999 Kosovo refugee crises in Albania and Macedonia. These states had to balance competing interests. The management of the two refugee crises turned into a political issue involving a mixture of humanitarian, military, organisational and host-nation interests. The central research question addressed in this volume is how the governments of Albania and Macedonia interacted with UNHCR in the management of the Kosovo refugee crisis and how similarities and differences in the nature of refugee crisis management in the two instances can be identified and explained. This study answers this question by analysing the institutional context in which refugee crisis management took place.