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The Global Refugee Crisis: Causes, Consequences, and Solutions

Thu, August 29, 4:00 to 5:30pm, Marriott, Virginia A

Session Submission Type: Full Paper Panel

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Panel from the Committee on International Political Science: Along with climate change, war, and poverty, the global refugee crisis is one of the central policy challenges of our day. Across the globe, there are some 68 million forced migrants; roughly 2/3 are internally displaced persons (IDPs) and 1/3 refugees. Their movement results in immense human suffering, death, and political disruption. The arrival of a comparatively modest one million forced migrants in Europe in 2015-2016 led to a sharp surge in far-right support, partially reconfiguring the European party system (allowing the Alternative for Germany into the German Bundestag for the first time, bringing the Five Star Movement/Lega to power in Italy, and resulting in an Austrian government coalition that includes the Freedom Party). In the Americas, tens of thousands of Salvadorans, Guatemalans, and Hondurans have fled the violent Northern Triangle, a movement that President Trump has shamelessly exploited. Economic chaos and political repression in Venezuela resulted in the flight of 3 million people as of November 2018, with Brazil, already under strain following years of economic recession, as one of the main destination countries. Taking a global perspective, the panel will examine the causes, the movement, and the local political effects of forced displacement, as well as the scope for the resolution of the global crisis.

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