Roundtable - The Refugee Crisis

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This AMIS Roundtable will discuss the dramatic events characterizing Europe’s current response to refugees. Recently, the UNHCR warned of the existence of a record-breaking 60 million refugees globally. The war in Syria, ISIS in Iraq, and the collapse of the Libyan state have meant a large increase of asylum seekers.

The response has been tighter border control, deterrence measures and combatting smugglers. But while fences and Frontex operations are politically salient, comparatively little political good-will has followed the EU Commission’s proposal to resettle asylum seekers or the UNHCR’s call to increase the relocation of refugees.

Roundtable participants:

Ninna Nyberg Sørensen (DIIS),
Hans Lucht (DIIS),
Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen (IMR),
Line Richter (Department of Anthropology, UCPH) &
Martin Lemberg-Pedersen (AMIS, UCPH).