Brookings-LSE Project on Internal Displacement
2015
Jun
26
Past Event
Internal displacement: Lessons learned after 20 years and challenges ahead
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Washington, DC
2015
Jun
24
Past Event
Resolving post-disaster displacement crises: Insights from the Philippines after Typhoon Haiyan
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Washington, DC
2015
Jun
24
Past Event
Europe’s migration crisis
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Washington, DC
Michael E. O’Hanlon
Director of Research - Foreign Policy
Director - Strobe Talbott Center for Security, Strategy, and Technology
Co-Director - Africa Security Initiative
Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Strobe Talbott Center for Security, Strategy, and Technology
Philip H. Knight Chair in Defense and Strategy
Kemal Kirişci
Nonresident Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Center on the United States and Europe, The Turkey Project
Social networks are incredibly important in understanding how people survive hard times – whether natural disasters or conflicts.
For those displaced across borders, there is nothing beyond general immigration and human rights law.
[The Australian Senate] bill proposes really extraordinary powers to intercept, detain and push people back at sea, and in fact, to send them to countries with which Australia may have absolutely no agreement, which really raises concerning questions about our respect for the sovereignty of other countries.
