asylum
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The Dublin Convention: Bad for Host Nations, Worse for Migrants
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The calamitous earthquake that rocked Syria and Turkey killed over 46,000 people. As host to more Syrian asylum seekers than every other country combined, the disaster has thrust the refugee crisis back into the news. While more effective government could have limited some of the physical damage and casualties, the…
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The Link Between Income and Xenophobia
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According to the World Bank (2019), close to half the world’s population lives in countries where development goals are hindered by conflict and violence. The UNHCR (2019) claims that by the end of 2018, 70.8 million people had been forcibly displaced from their homes, of whom at least 25.9 million…
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The Connection of Sanctuary Cities and Crime
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In the 1980s, churches across the United States sought to provide shelter for refugees fleeing violence in El Salvador and Guatemala. The U.S. supported the regimes of these countries, and it did not want to provide political asylum to their refugees. Nevertheless, religious communities offered them protection in open defiance…
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The Policy and Politics of Refugees: A conversation with Pascal Brice (Part 2)
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Pascal Brice is the Executive Director of France’s Office of Protection for Refugees and Stateless Persons (OFPRA). He was invited to the University of Chicago by the Pearson Institute for the Study and Resolution of Global Conflicts and sat down with Prabhat Singh to discuss the refugee crisis in Europe…