Harvard Bookstore Event: Can We Solve the Migration Crisis?

Harvard Bookstore 1256 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, United States

Harvard Book Store welcomes renowned human rights lawyer and Harvard scholar and professor JACQUELINE BHABHA (and FXB research director) for a discussion of her latest book, Can We Solve the Migration Crisis?. About Can We Solve the Migration Crisis? Every minute 24 people are forced to leave their homes and over 65 million are currently displaced worldwide. Small wonder that tackling the refugee and migration crisis has become a global…

Northeastern Law Event – Rethinking Borders

Northeastern University School of Law 65 Forsyth Street, 240 Dockser Hall, Boston, MA, United States

Northeastern University School of Law Event - Rethinking Borders: Climate Change, Migration, and Human Rights Professor Jacqueline Bhabha, FXB Director of Research and Professor of the Practice of Health and Human Rights at the Harvard School of Public Health, will be the keynote speaker (11:45am - 1:15pm) at this all-day event,"Rethinking Borders: Climate Change, Migration and Human Rights." Sponsored by the Northeastern University Law Review in this year's symposium, the  participants…

Why Should “We” Help “Them”? The Politics of Search and Rescue on the Mediterranean Sea

FXB 710 651 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA, United States

Hernan Del Valle, Doctors Without Borders, Radcliffe Inst. Fellow Hernan del Valle has led humanitarian aid operations for the past 15 years. His work has taken him across five continents assisting people affected by armed conflict and forced displacement. He was involved in Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) operations in the Mediterranean Sea, which over the past three years rescued tens of thousands of refugees and migrants fleeing Libya toward Europe…

FXB Work-in-Progress: Reacting to Crisis – State Response and Youth Resistance in Sweden in a Time of Restrictive Migration Politics

FXB 710 651 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA, United States

Please join us on Tuesday, April 23rd for presentations by two current Harvard FXB Fellows. “Youth resisting deportations: The political repertoires of Anti-deportation campaigns in contemporary Sweden” by Deniz Yildirim (MA, IEP de Grenoble) Whenever states consider they are exposed to mass influx of people and/or any ‘risk’ associated with it, discussions on restrictive asylum and border policies re-emerge. This presentation seeks to discuss the crisis management strategies of Sweden…