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Public Policy

The Myth of Climate Migrants: On Discourse and Its Effects

The rhetoric of global climate migration is being mobilized in ways that promote the unequal distribution of power and resources at multiple scales. Understanding how these discourses affect the securitization of climate response is essential to more equitable climate futures.
Research

War on Development in Syria: Interview with Omar Dahi

Project Director Omar Dahi discusses the 2011 uprisings, the Syrian refugee crisis, and emerging South-South relations.
Research

Watching television while forcibly displaced: Syrian refugees as participant audiences

This article explores how Syrian refugees and internally displaced people are using social media to reshape interpretations of their own status through their engagement with quality TV texts that tackle the refugee crisis.
News + Media

Syrian Refugees and IDPs

A conversation about the the current state of Syrian refugees and internally displaced persons. Tima Kurdi shares her family's personal experience and Omar Dahi presents an examination of the situation.
News + Media

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