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.

As regards Europe, the war in Syria, ISIS in Iraq and the collapse of the Libyan state has meant a large increase of 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 good-will 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!