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A European Refugee Crisis or a Humanity Crisis?. Center for African Studies/Fall 2017. October 10, 2017. Elsadig Elsheikh/Global Justice Program. Agenda. Why This Report The largest human migration in a century Drivers of global forced migration Forces & Dynamics of Global Forced Migration
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A European Refugee Crisis or a Humanity Crisis? Center for African Studies/Fall 2017 October 10, 2017 Elsadig Elsheikh/Global Justice Program
Agenda Why This Report • The largest human migration in a century • Drivers of global forced migration Forces & Dynamics of Global Forced Migration I. Historical forces & dynamics • Colonialism • World War II • The Cold War II. Contemporary forces & dynamics • Neoliberalism • Securitization • Climate change Who Host Most Refugees Today? Policy Interventions • Global • National Q & A 2
Purpose of the Report Moving Targets aims to: • Outline the causes of forced migration in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, from the mass displacement in the World War II era, to the current mass displacement of people primarily from the Middle East, Asia, and Africa; • Recount the origins and evolution of refugee protection mechanisms; • Account for why displaced peoples largely come from the Global South, why the Global South hosts the vast majority of the displaced, why so many seek long-term refuge in the Global North, and why the response in the Global North has been limited; • Attend to the different histories and dynamics of forced migration in the Americas, the Caribbean, Africa, Asia, and the Pacific; • Account for the ways in which climate change has shaped the current refugee landscape and forced migration more broadly; • And envision a set of policy interventions that can not only help establish a more comprehensive and equitable global refugee regime, but also help prevent the future production of refugees.
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Policy Interventions Global & Cross-Sector • Reassess and develop a new refugee regime. • Policies that incentivize the involvement of new actors. • Policies that expand refugee resettlement program. • Policies that redistribute resources within the Global North toward resident refugee populations. • Policies that expand responsibility burden sharing of hosting and resettle refugees. • Policies that end the neoliberal debt regime that shackle global south economies. National & Intergovernmental • Policies that benefit society (and disadvantaged groups within it) and unlock the multiplier effects of integration. • Policies that join sustainable development goals with refugee governance. • Policies that account for global climate-induced displacement, including land and resource grabs’ foreign direct investments. • Policies that reduce the criminalization of refugees & asylum seekers.
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