The 30th annual Camden Conference—“Refugees and Global Migration: Humanity’s Crisis” — explored the varied causes of the current international crisis and the unique challenges that come with accepting immigrants from particular countries, regions, and demographic groups. Speakers examined the political, economic, and social consequences of population flight for the countries they have abandoned in the Middle East, Africa, and Central America. Going beyond the present crisis, conference speakers will examine the factors that will likely drive migration in the coming decades—from dramatic demographic shifts to climate change, natural disasters, and ethnic, territorial, and political conflicts. And, turning the spotlight in our direction, speakers will discuss the role that should be played by the United States, a country built by immigrants
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The World is on the Move, and We Have No Idea How to Respond
Paul James
Director and Professor of the Institute for
Culture and Society at Western Sydney University
(Australia)
Comparing Responses to Refugees and Migrants: Governments, the UN and Civil Society
Karen Koning AbuZayd
Fmr. Special Adviser to the UN
Secretary-General for the 2016 Summit on Refugees and
Migrants
Germany, Europe, and the Politics of Refugee Protection
Gerald Knaus
Chairman of the European Stability
Initiative (ESI), a research and policy institute focusing
on South East Europe, Turkey, and the South Caucasus
Refugees and the Remaking of an Arab Order
Maha Yahya
Director of the Carnegie Middle East Center
Addressing Forced Displacement, A Collective Responsibility
Kelly T. Clements
UN Deputy High Commissioner
for Refugees
Has the Refugee Crisis Created a Perfect Storm for the Far Right?
Cas Mudde
Associate Professor at the University of
Georgia’s School of Public and International Affairs
2016-The Year the World Stopped Caring About Refugees: Central American and Beyond
Bruno Stagno
Deputy Executive Director for
Advocacy at Human Rights Watch in Paris
At the Heart of the Problem: Global Scale and the Patterns of Internal Displacement
Alexandra Bilak
Director of the Internal Displacement
Monitoring Centre (IDMC), a Geneva-based program
of the Norwegian Refugee Council
American Attitudes Toward Immigration
Timothy Kane
JP Conte Fellow in Immigration Studies at the Hoover Institution at Stanford
Saturday Morning Panel
Saturday Afternoon Panel
Sunday Morning Panel
Final Panel