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Comments on The Arc of Protection

Toward a New International Refugee Regime

June 4, 2018 • by David Scott FitzGerald

The Arc of Protection identifies major shifts in the international refugee regime, diagnoses current problems, and proposes principles to undergird reforms. The book seeks to renegotiate the existing “grand bargain” between the global South and the global North, in which the global South keeps most refugees bottled up in return for ...

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The EU-Turkey Refugee Deal

Can Turkey be considered as a ‘safe third country’?

April 13, 2018 • by Berfu Aygenc and Cagla Orpen

Since the unleashing of the civil war in 2011, millions of Syrians have been faced with the dilemma of staying in their home country, torn by a civil war and international intervention, or leaving for an uncertain destiny in foreign lands. Their efforts to settle in countries within close proximity ...

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A ‘Chef-ugee’ from Zimbabwe

Cooking Stirs New Hopes and Old Memories

February 10, 2018 • by Rosalind Tordesillas

Every now and then the woman in the apron clinks her water glass with a fork to cut through the conversation, and all eyes at the table turn to her. “Please don’t think there’s any question that is uncomfortable,” she says. “It is my duty to explain to someone who doesn’t ...

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Radical Objects – A Response

Migration and Museums

January 25, 2018 • by Chris Whitehead

This post is a response to Bryan Sitch’s Radical Objects: A Refugee’s Life Jacket at Manchester Museum. Migration as a primary focus for museums only has a recent history, with particular development over the last decade or so. In that time, we’ve seen the development of migration museums focusing on emigration, immigration ...

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Radical Objects

A Refugee’s Life Jacket at Manchester Museum

January 22, 2018 • by Bryan Sitch

In early December 2016, I found myself in a small twin propeller aeroplane above the Aegean Sea buffeted by strong winds, the sea beneath us roiling whilst my fellow passengers quietly crossed themselves. I was travelling to Lesvos to collect a refugee’s life jacket for Manchester Museum’s collecting life project. In ...

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Poland’s Immoral Refugee Policy

EU files lawsuit for refusing to admit refugees

June 29, 2017 • by Sławomir Sierakowski

On June 13, the European Commission filed a lawsuit against Poland, the Czech Republic, and Hungary, accusing them of violating European Union law by refusing to admit refugees. The next day, Polish Prime Minister Beata Szydło gave a speech at the site of the Auschwitz death camp to mark the 77th anniversary ...

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What Does the Supreme Court’s Decision on the Trump Executive Order Mean for Refugees?

A Hopeful View

June 27, 2017 • by T. Alexander Aleinikoff

The commentary on the Supreme Court’s decision on the Trump Executive Orders has largely focused on the part of the Orders that imposed the travel ban on six predominantly Muslim countries. Less noticed have been the paragraphs at the end of the decision that discuss the Orders’ suspension of the ...

What Does the Supreme Court’s Decision on the Trump Executive Order Mean for Refugees?

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Finding Refuge

When Secure Borders Are Not the Answer

May 30, 2017 • by Anne McNevin and Klaus Neumann

As countries in the global North fortify their borders against irregular migrants from the global South, border walls proliferate. Argentina constructed a wall at its border with Paraguay. Hungary recently erected a second, electrified fence at its border with Serbia. And Donald Trump’s administration is still committed to building at ...

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Recovering Community: Part II

Remembering the Jungle at Jules Ferry

May 26, 2017 • by Siraj Izhar

In its time at Jules Ferry, the Jungle crossed a threshold in the nature of its transgression as a political subject. This transgression was its establishment of community. What the Jungle came to embody in political form was a common project; common, that is, in two senses of the word. ...

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Recovering Community: Part I

Remembering the Jungle at Jules Ferry

May 23, 2017 • by Siraj Izhar

We know the scene; there is a gathering, and someone is telling a story. We do not yet know whether these people gathered together form an assembly, if they are a horde or a tribe. But we call them brothers and sisters because they are gathered together and because they ...

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The Unfriendly Skies, Trump & Syria, and the Easter Egg Roll

Past Present: Episode 79

April 20, 2017 • by Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, Neil J. Young and Nicole Hemmer

In this week's episode, Niki, Natalia, and Neil debate United's rough treatment of its passengers, Trump's missile attack on Syria, and the White House Easter egg roll.

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