Where Do Refugees Go? - a podcast by School of International Service

Every minute in 2018, 25 people were forced to flee their homes. That's according to UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, which also revealed in their 2018 annual report that there are currently more than 70.8 million people forcibly displaced worldwide, including 25.9 million refugees.

SIS professor Tazreena Sajjad joins Big World to discuss where refugees go. She reveals which countries are producing and taking in the most refugees (1:34) and explains why most of the world’s refugees are hosted by countries in the developing world (4:21). Professor Sajjad also discusses her research in Bangladesh, which opened their borders to more than 1.1 million Rohingya refugees (7:34), and the complexities that have emerged from the country’s decision to take in a large number of refugees (9:56).

Why are Western countries increasingly closing their borders to refugees (16:47), and what measures do these wealthier nations take to control and prevent migration (20:51)? Professor Sajjad answers these questions and notes the far-reaching implications of the current migration narrative in countries of the Global North (24:34).

During our “Take Five” segment, Professor Sajjad lists the five things she would do to reduce the number of forcibly displaced people around the world (13:33).

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