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Refugees and the Migration Crisis in Europe:

What economic and political forces have driven waves of refugees from their homelands in recent months? What fate awaits them on new shores? How do these new migrations challenge our understanding of citizenship and nation? This roundtable goes beyond the media images that represent the refugee crisis–from Fortress Europe to Mama Merkel–to ask probing questions about new patterns of human migration emerging globally.

Panel:

Karla Mallette (moderator)
Director, Center for European Studies and Islamic Studies Program; Near Eastern Studies; Romance Languages and Literatures

Rita Chin: Department of History

Kristin Dickinson: Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures

James Hathaway: Director, Program in Refugee and Asylum Law; James E. and Sarah A. Degan Professor of Law

Pauline Jones Luong: Director, International Institute; Political Science

This event will be livestreamed beginning at 3:00pm on November 5. The link will be available at: ii.umich.edu