The refugee problem' is a term that it has become almost impossible to escape. Although used by a wide range of actors involved in work related to forced migration, these actors do not often explain what exactly the problem' is that they are working to solve, leading to an unfortunate conflation of two quite different problems': the problems that refugees face and the problems that refugees pose.

Introduction : Out of Profound Concern -- for Whom? -- 1. On refugee problems : The development of a problem and a regime -- 2. Michel Foucault, governmentality and the state : The emergence of the refugee (as) problem -- 3. Power, knowledge, and the subject : Managing the refugee (as) problem -- 4.Hannah Arendt and the refugee problem : Worldlessness and superfluity -- 5. Making oneself at home in the world : solutions to refugees' problems -- Conclusion : On durability and permanence -- Index.