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Roundtable: Sanctuary in the City? Assisting Urban Refugees

Bergen Global CMI/UiB
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We have the pleasure of inviting all to the annual CMI roundtable. An increasing number of refugees live in poor neighborhoods in towns and cities across the Middle East, a premier refugee region with one of the world's highest urbanization levels. While host states have taken in millions of refugees, they do not have the resources to provide for them. Aiding refugees living in cities and urban areas is therefore a major challenge to humanitarian policy. For many refugees, cities are viewed as the best option to provide for themselves and their families. However, cities can also turn into "poverty traps", were the refugees survive below subsistence levels. Urban refugees also compete with other urban dwellers for housing, jobs and services. This can strain host-guest relations and cause a backlash against refugees both on the local and national level. While the size and complexity of cities account for many of the problems facing refuges, the …...more
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How Can Host State Countries and Donors Assists Refugees Living among Urban Poor in Inner-City Slums

4:40

Jeff Crisp

6:55

What Other Specific Problems and Threats and Vulnerabilities That Refugees Encounter When They Move In to an Urban Area

15:34

The Informal Housing Market

24:23

Urban Profiling Tools

39:14

Developing the Tools

40:09

Population Census in Lebanon

41:34

Factors That Led to the Rise of Isis

53:43

Alexander Betts

59:20

Importance of Refugee History

1:02:28

Political Role of Municipal Authorities

1:05:21

Refugee Led Protection and Assistance

1:06:05

Split Family Strategies

1:11:22

What's Different about the Urban Displaced Compared to Other Urban Poor Populations and Other Migrant Groups

1:13:30

Uses and Opportunities

1:22:26
Roundtable: Sanctuary in the City? Assisting Urban Refugees
We have the pleasure of inviting all to the annual CMI roundtable. An increasing number of refugees live in poor neighborhoods in towns and cities across the Middle East, a premier refugee region with one of the world's highest urbanization levels. While host states have taken in millions of refugees, they do not have the resources to provide for them. Aiding refugees living in cities and urban areas is therefore a major challenge to humanitarian policy. For many refugees, cities are viewed as the best option to provide for themselves and their families. However, cities can also turn into "poverty traps", were the refugees survive below subsistence levels. Urban refugees also compete with other urban dwellers for housing, jobs and services. This can strain host-guest relations and cause a backlash against refugees both on the local and national level. While the size and complexity of cities account for many of the problems facing refuges, they are also part of the solution. Cities have larger and often unregulated labour markets, more shelter options and ready access to health and school facilities. Cities and towns can also offer greater freedom of movement and foster self-reliance as well as better prospects for successful socio-economic integration and entrepreneurship. This panel will discuss new ways to assist the urban displaced in the 21st century. How can humanitarian policies be re-designed to accommodate refugees in urban areas? Can refugees find "sanctuary in the city"? How can host countries and donors assist refugees living among the urban poor in inner-city slums? With: Tine Gade (Nupi): https://www.nupi.no/Om-NUPI/Medarbeid... Dlawer Aladeen (MERI): http://www.meri-k.org/scholars/dlawer... Nasser Yassin (AUB): http://www.aub.edu.lb/pages/profile.a... Ahmet Içduygu (Koch U): https://oip.ku.edu.tr/?q=prof-dr-ahme... Synne Bergby (UN-Habitat): https://www.linkedin.com/in/synne-ber... Jeff Crisp (Refugee Studies Centre, Oxford): https://www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/people/jeff-... Alexander Betts (Refugee Studies Centre, Oxford): https://www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/people/alexa... Chairs: Are John Knudsen (CMI): https://www.cmi.no/staff/are-knudsen and Sarah Tobin (CMI): https://www.cmi.no/staff/sarah-a-tobin

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Bergen Global CMI/UiB

818 subscribers
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