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His ideas have had a notable impact on refugee policy. He is perhaps best known for his research reframing refugees as economic contributors. Together with Paul Collier, he has argued for a new approach to refugee assistance based on development rather than just humanitarianism. They developed an idea to employ Syrian refugees in already existing Special Economic Zones in Jordan, first published in a piece in Foreign Affairs. The proposal adopted as a pilot project by Jordan, the UK, the EU, and the World Bank, which became known as known as the 'Jordan Compact’. The pilot was described by News Deeply as “one of the most important economic experiments in the world today”.

In 2017, he co-authored Refuge: Transforming a Broken Refugee System with Paul Collier, which was recognised by The Economist as one of the best books of 2017, and was final shortlisted for the Estoril Global Issues Distinguished Book Prize .

Since 2017, he has led the Refugee Economies Programme at the University of Oxford, which is funded by the IKEA Foundation, which supports the socio-economic inclusion of refugees through a longitudinal study following the economic lives of 15,000 refugees and host community members in Ethiopia, Kenya, and Uganda.

He was named in Foreign Policy magazine's top 100 global thinkers in 2016,, as a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader in 2016 , in Thinkers 50's radar list of emerging business influencers in 2017,, as a Bloomberg Businessweek 'gamechanger' in 2017 , and as a European Young Leader by Friends of Europe in 2020.

He has given TED talks on refugees and Brexit with combined views in excess of 3.5 million. His TED talk on refugees was named by the curator of TED Chris Anderson as one of the top 10 TED talks of 2016.

His books include Protection by Persuasion: International Cooperation in the Refugee Regime (Cornell University Press, 2009),, Refugees in International Relations (Oxford University Press, 2010), Global Migration Governance (Oxford University Press, 2011), Survival Migration: Failed Governance and the Crisis of Displacement (Cornell University Press, 2013), Mobilising the Diaspora: How Refugees Challenge Authoritarianism (Cambridge University Press, 2016),, Refugee Economies: Forced Displacement and Development (Oxford University Press, 2016), and The Global Governed? Refugees as Providers of Protection and Assistance (Cambridge University Press, 2020).

Alexander Milton Stedman Betts (born 17 January 1980) is the Leopold Muller Professor of Forced Migration and International Affairs, William Golding Senior Fellow in Politics at Brasenose College , and Associate Head (Graduate and Research Training) of the Social Sciences Division at the University of Oxford. He was formerly director of the Refugee Studies Centre between 2014 and 2017.