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This Very Short Introduction covers a broad range of issues around the causes and impact of the contemporary refugee crisis for both receiving states and societies, for global order, and for refugees and other forced migrants themselves. Gil Loescher discusses the identity of refugees, asylum seekers, and internally displaced persons and how they differ from other forced migrants. He also investigates the long history of the refugee phenomenon and how refugees became a central concern of the international community during the 20th and 21st centuries.

The Refugee Archive Roundtable brings together scholars and university teams whose dissertations and peer-reviewed studies from the past decade examine female-headed households around the world. Each session highlights current research on female-headed households and displaced single mothers, and spells out what the evidence means for services and policy. The series runs as live webinars with short talks and Q&A. therefugeearchive.substack.com

This podcast is about the longest civil war in history--the Karen conflict in Myanmar.

Tout le monde a déjà eu besoin d’un refuge. Sa maison d’enfance, une cabane, le divan de son psychanalyste, une terre d’accueil… Le mot Refuge prend des formes différente selon le parcours de chacun. Pour certains, il évoque des endroits réconfortants, où l'on se sent en sécurité, alors que pour d’autres il est lié aux migrations et à l'exil. Cette pluralité d’imaginaires, de définitions et de perspectives nous a donné envie d’explorer toute la polysémie de ce terme. Dans cette série de 6 épisodes, découvrez avec Julia Lasry et ses invités les refuges qui ont ...

Persecution. Violence. War… Forced To Flee, the new podcast from UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, tells the extraordinary stories of people who lived through some of the most tumultuous events of the past 70 years. The story of the mother who fled Vietnam by sea and fell into the hands of pirates, and of the orphaned schoolboy who found his calling thanks to a disposable camera. The story of the Venezuelan musicians who found hope with a new orchestra, and of the daughter of refugees who joined the rescue effort during Rwanda's genocide. And stories of the many humanitarian workers who for ...