Refugees

Refugees as Contributors to Peace

Maja Janmyr • Mar 3 2016 • Articles

Finding solutions to refugee situations is a struggle of the politically excluded for political inclusion. Resolving displacement inextricably links with achieving peace.

Canada’s Audacious Refugee Response

The Canadian approach shows the possibility of a future for thousands of Syrian youth through resettlement, as important as any other effort to confront the Syrian war.

Implications of the Securitisation of Migration

Elisabeth Farny • Jan 29 2016 • Essays

The securitization of migration reinforces a politics of fear and racism.

Turkey and the EU: Strategic Rapprochement in the Shadow of the Refugee Crisis

Beken Saatçioğlu • Jan 21 2016 • Articles

At the present juncture, EU-Turkey relations seem to be evolving towards a strategic partnership rather than Turkey’s full integration into the Union.

Fortress Europe? Porous Borders and EU Dependence on Neighbour Countries

Jonathan Zaragoza-Cristiani • Jan 2 2016 • Articles

EU borders cannot be understood without understanding the relations with its neighbours and the stability in its borderlands. The image of Fortress Europe is too naïve.

Interview – Nicholas Kristof

E-International Relations • Dec 28 2015 • Features

Nicholas Kristof discusses the Syrian Civil War, the attitudes of US Presidential Candidates towards refugees, and the challenges of reporting from war-torn countries.

Chronic Refugee Populations and UNHCR’s Funding Model: A Source of Insecurity

Emma Best • Nov 14 2015 • Essays

The donor-funded model of UNHCR fails to account for long-standing exiled populations, which eventually leads to security implications in vulnerable areas.

What’s Wrong with the Refugee Convention?

Phil Cole • Nov 6 2015 • Articles

The UN Refugee Convention and the rights and obligations which flow from it are inadequate and need to be fundamentally revised.

Interview – Nando Sigona

E-International Relations • Nov 1 2015 • Features

Dr. Sigona discusses the ongoing refugee crisis in the Euro-Mediterranean region, and the need for the EU to find a sustainable and humane response at its borders.

On Images, Stories, and the Need to Hear More

Swati Parashar • Oct 8 2015 • Articles

The way out of this world of spectacles we have normalised is not to say more but to hear more, to grasp the hidden erasure of suffering in different contexts.

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