A Glass Half Full or Half Empty: Humanitarian Protection Developments
Channel: Migration Policy Institute
Date: 2022-11-01

U.S. individuals, communities, and organizations have rallied to welcome tens of thousands of Afghans evacuated from Kabul amid a chaotic U.S. withdrawal one year ago and to sponsor more than 100,000 Ukrainians who fled after Russia’s invasion. The displacement crises have led to policy innovations, including community and private sponsorship of Ukrainians.
How are these responses to displacement crises different from other humanitarian crises? And what might the implications be for the U.S. system of humanitarian protection going forward, given the ongoing weaknesses of a resettlement system on track to resettle just one-fifth of refugees targeted for resettlement this year?  How will refugee policy and integration be affected by the growing use of temporary statuses such as parole (including the resumption of the Cuban and Haitian Family Parole programs) and Temporary Protected Status?
 
The panel of top experts examines how the resettlement infrastructure is rebounding from major cuts, and where the continuing gaps and needs in the protection system exist.
 
Moderator: Anna Gallagher, Executive Director, Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Inc. (CLINIC)
Speakers:
Lawrence Bartlett, Director of Refugee Admissions, Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration, U.S. Department of State
Eskinder Negash, President and CEO, U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants
Kit Taintor, Vice President of Policy and Practice, Welcome.US

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