AMIS Roundtable: The Refugee Crisis

This AMIS Roundtable will discuss the dramatic events characterizing Europe’s current response to refugees. Recently, the UNHCR warned of the existence of a record-breaking 60 million refugees globally. The war in Syria, ISIS in Iraq, and the collapse of the Libyan state have meant a large increase in asylum seekers.

The response has been tighter border control, deterrence measures and combatting smugglers. But while fences and Frontex operations are politically salient, comparatively little political goodwill has followed the EU Commission’s proposal to resettle asylum seekers or the UNHCR’s call to increase the relocation of refugees.

Roundtable participants:

• Ninna Nyberg Sørensen (DIIS),
• Hans Lucht (DIIS),
• Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen (IMR),
• Line Richter (Department of Anthropology, UCPH) &
• Martin Lemberg-Pedersen (AMIS, UCPH).

Everyone is welcome!