Presents new research on the objectives, motivations, and challenges of ‘innovation spaces’ in humanitarian and development work. Introduction The use of the term ‘lab’, more commonly seen in the physical and natural sciences, conjures a sense of a safe haven for experimentation, focused problem solving and solution creation. As laboratories for innovation have become part...

Extraterritorial asylum policies – initiatives that seek to ‘deterritorialize’ the asylum system by providing protection to refugees and processing asylum claims outside the territory of the state implementing the policy – challenge fundamental features of the global refugee regime. Why did extraterritorial asylum policies in the UK and Australia rise to prominence in the early...