Mobility, standardization, and efficiency maximization: The remaking of the refugee industry

Why does the humanitarian sector rely on mobile workforce, and how is the personnel’s mobility facilitated and conditioned? In this MoLab Conversation, Julia Morris (University of North Carolina Wilmington, USA) and Biao Xiang discuss the standardization of skills, procedures, and language in the refugee industry. These developments enabled not only individual staff’s mobility, but also the movement of asylum systems into new places and contexts.