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Carr Center Event: Book Talk With Jacqueline Bhabha

September 25, 2018 @ 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm

Come to the Carr Center for a book talk/conversation with Jacqueline Bhabha, Professor of the Practice of Health and Human Rights at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, as she discusses her findings in her recent work Can We Solve the Migration Crisis?

Every minute 24 people are forced to leave their homes and over 65 million are currently displaced world-wide. Small wonder that tackling the refugee and migration crisis has become a global political priority.

But can this crisis be resolved and if so, how? In this compelling essay, renowned human rights lawyer and scholar Jacqueline Bhabha explains why forced migration demands compassion, generosity and a more vigorous acknowledgement of our shared dependence on human mobility as a key element of global collaboration. Unless we develop humane ‘win-win’ strategies for tackling the inequalities and conflicts driving migration and for addressing the fears fuelling xenophobia, she argues, both innocent lives and cardinal human rights principles will be squandered in the service of futile nationalism and oppressive border control.

Refreshments with be provided.

Venue

Rubenstein 229 Carr Conference Room
HKS 79 John F. Kennedy Street
Cambridge, 02138 United States
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617.495.5819
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