How can we achieve a world without long-term refugee camps?
Channel: IIED
Date: 2023-10-03

This hybrid IIED Debates on Wednesday, 27 September reflected on the possibility of a world without long-term refugee camps.

The number of forcibly displaced people around the world reached a staggering 110 million in May 2023. Nearly half of all internally displaced people (IDPs) and 20% of the world’s refugees live in camps as default. Despite a growing body of evidence that living in cities creates better levels of wellbeing as well as more economic opportunities, many host governments require refugees to live in camps.

This hybrid IIED Debates event, organised by the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), explored what we can do to shift the narrative and move away from the current status quo. What are the barriers preventing change? And can we achieve a world without long-term refugee camps?

Read more: https://www.iied.org/how-can-we-achieve-world-without-long-term-refugee-camps

Speakers:

00:01: Lucy Earle, director of the Human Settlements research group at IIED and lead for the 'protracted displacement in an urban world' project
10:18: Romola Sanyal, professor in the geography and planning department at the London School of Economics
25:27: Loren Landau, professor of migration and development at the University of Oxford, research professor at the University of the Witwatersrand’s African Centre for Migration and Society, and co-director of the Wits-Oxford Mobility Governance Lab (MGL)
33:40: Eskinder Negash, president and CEO of the US Committee for Refugees and Immigrants (USCRI)

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