Sarah Miller is a senior fellow with Refugees International where she helps manage the Labor Market Access initiative and leads engagement on IDP issues. She previously covered the Great Lakes and Horn of Africa, but has also worked, researched, and written on Latin America and the Middle East. She is interested in global governance questions around migration, and has consulted for UNHCR, the ILO, the World Bank, the IRC, and Mercy Corps. She has worked on refugee issues with think tanks and various NGOs, and is a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Sarah teaches with Georgetown University’s Institute for the Study of International Migration, and has taught for the University of London, Fordham University, Columbia University, and American University. She has published a range of books, articles, and reports on forced migration, and received her doctorate in International Relations from Oxford University in 2014. She also holds an MSc in Forced Migration from Oxford University, an MA in Social Sciences from the University of Chicago, and a BA in History, Spanish, and International Service from Valparaiso University.
A confluence of factors threatens to reignite the conflict in Ethiopia and Tigray, potentially destabilizing the entire region.
December 3, 2025
IDP protection and response cannot be on the chopping block as the UN reshapes its work.
November 24, 2025
Donors, multilateral institutions, and humanitarian agencies must prioritize an “urban first” approach to refugee response and promote inclusion.
October 21, 2025
Refugees International calls upon all armed groups to cease attacks on civilians and calls on donor countries to surge aid for protection and life-saving services.
September 30, 2025
It’s not too late to learn lessons from the recent past and resume assistance to northern Ethiopia.
August 21, 2025
The direct impacts of the cuts are already shown aid groups are reducing staff or closing their doors altogether, and assistance is being reduced.
May 12, 2025
Internal displacement has long been a neglected issue on the international stage. Here are four priority actions aid actors must take in 2025.
January 17, 2025
The Brazilian model holds promise for refugee situations in the Americas and around the world, where fatigued donors and beleaguered hosts try to marginalize refugees.
January 16, 2025
The world needs an ambitious, forward-looking agenda on internal displacement now, one with better engagement, investment, and coordination.
September 30, 2024
Mozambique is a reminder that the world’s failures to sustain investments in peace produce humanitarian fallout and widespread displacement.
June 28, 2024
