Refugees

The Politics of Border Security in the Sahel
- May 9, 2017
By Philippe M. Frowd A casual observer of the Sahel could be forgiven for understanding this region of West Africa as a space of threat: radicalization, terrorism, massive population growth, and irregular migration all grab the headlines. This vision is visible in the policy world, too: one only needs to glance at the ever-expanding number

By CIPS
Africa, International Security, Refugees
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The New Colossus
- March 30, 2017
by Ruth Bradley-St-Cyr “Give me your tired, your poor,/ Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free…” The words inscribed at the base of the statue of Liberty are famous, and yet hardly anyone knows that they are from a sonnet called “The New Colossus” and hardly anyone could name the poet, Emma Lazarus. She shares

By CIPS
Human Rights, Refugees, USA
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Syrian Refugees and Canada’s “Defining Moment”: One Year On
- December 7, 2016
By Elke Winter, Benjamin Zyla, Charlotte Murret-Labarthe University of Ottawa Origins of the crisis In March 2011, three months after the Arab Spring began in Tunisia, Egypt, and Libya, fifteen Syrian schoolchildren were arrested and tortured for writing on a wall the anti-regime slogan: “The people want the overthrow of the regime.” This event sparked

By CIPS
Canadian Foreign Policy, Middle East, Refugees
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We Must Not Close the Doors to Spontaneously Arriving Asylum Seekers
- November 8, 2016
By Stephanie J. Silverman Governments understandably focus on enhancing security, surveillance, and risk management for their citizens, and as we have seen, particularly since 9-11, much of this increased attention is directed at national borders. While every person enjoys the legal right to seek asylum in Canada, the UK, the US, and any other signatory

By CIPS
International Security, Refugees
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How uOttawa is Taking Action to Support Syrian Refugees in Canada and Around the World
- May 20, 2016
The devastating civil war in Syria has resulted in the largest forced migration of people since the Second World War. To date, 13.5 million Syrians are in urgent need of humanitarian assistance, including 4.8 million registered refugees and another 6.6 million internally displaced. Those who risk the journey out of Syria face perilous travel, bare

By Allan Rock
Middle East, Refugees
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Migration as a Threat to Foreign Aid?
- March 16, 2016
The current migration crisis poses a threat to foreign aid. By that, I certainly do not mean that the refugees and asylum seekers themselves are dangerous, but rather how Western governments respond to the crisis is already having a negative impact on foreign aid, one that will worsen significantly in the coming years. In short,

By Stephen Brown
Canadian Foreign Policy, International Development, Refugees
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Welcoming Syrians, detaining others
- December 8, 2015
By Philippe Bourbeau The newly elected Trudeau government seems to be moving quickly on one of its promises made during the federal election campaign: to accept 25,000 Syrians by January 1, 2016. On November 9, while announcing the formation of a sub-committee of cabinet ministers to expedite the refugee initiative, the minister for Immigration, Refugees

By CIPS
Human Rights, Middle East, Refugees
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When we should, and shouldn’t, revoke citizenship
- September 30, 2015
The long federal election campaign has been knocked off course at various stages by the unexpected: revelations from the Duffy trial; the accelerating Syrian refugee crisis; the niqab issue in citizenship ceremonies; and now, courtesy of Monday night’s Munk debate on foreign policy, the issue of the revocation of Canadian citizenship. That issue, introduced by

By Wesley Wark
Democracy, Refugees
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EU Countries Must Work Toward Common Refugee Solution
- September 15, 2015
The German minister of the interior announced on the weekend that Germany would temporarily close its southern border. In so doing, the government would temporarily leave the so-called Schengen agreement, which allows the free movement of people in the Euro zone. To be sure, this is absolutely legal and conforms with European law, which allows

By Benjamin Zyla
Europe, Refugees
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Reaching New Levels of Human Insecurity
- July 2, 2015
Published by the CDA Institute, June 30, 2015 According to the Global Trends Report released by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) on 18 June 2015, the forcible displacement of people is at the highest level ever recorded. The report indicated that the number of people displaced at the end of 2014 had risen

By Alexandra Gheciu
Refugees
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