Many Rivers to Cross: Current Developments and Challenges in US Refugee and Asylum Policy
Eggers Hall, 341
Add to: Outlook, ICal, Google Calendar
The Moynihan Institute’s Migration Group presents John Slocum, executive director of Refugee Council USA.
Globally, the number of forcibly displaced persons overwhelms available pathways to protection. While the United States is the historic leader in refugee resettlement, refugee admissions fell sharply during the Trump administration. President Biden has done much to restore refugee resettlement, but emergency admissions of Afghans and Ukrainians absorbed much of the resettlement system’s capacity.
The Biden Administration recently announced plans to sharply increase refugee admissions from Latin America, but it continues to impose restrictions on asylum-seekers trying to cross the U.S.-Mexico border. And the GOP-controlled House of Representatives is intent on further restricting access to asylum, which is a key component of refugee protection.
These developments are being
addressed by a number of promising program and policy innovations; but the
short-term political clock is ticking, and the world faces the longer-term
challenge of climate-forced displacement.
Category
Social Science and Public Policy
Type
Lectures and Seminars
Region
New York Campus
Open to
Public
Organizer
MAX-Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs
Accessibility
Contact George Tsaoussis Carter to request accommodations
We’re Turning 100!
To mark our centennial in the fall of 2024, the Maxwell School will hold special events and engagement opportunities to celebrate the many ways—across disciplines and borders—our community ever strives to, as the Oath says, “transmit this city not only not less, but greater, better and more beautiful than it was transmitted to us.”
Throughout the year leading up to the centennial, engagement opportunities will be held for our diverse, highly accomplished community that now boasts more than 38,500 alumni across the globe.