INGS1001 Lecture 13: Week 13 Refugee Situation

• School: University of Sydney
• Department: Political Economy
• Course: INGS1001
• Professor: All

Document Summary

The changing nature and european perceptions of europe"s refugee. Millions of refugees are stuck in camps and cities of the global south without permanent legal status. They wait in limbo, their status unresolved in what the united nations (un) calls. In contrast, refugees on the move to seek asylum in the global north are perceived as threats and coded as part of a masculinist geopolitical agenda that controls and securitizes their movement. Policies to externalize asylum and keep potential refugees away from the affluent nations of the global north, in which they may seek legal status, represent one strategy of exclusion. The united states committee for refugees and immigrants (uscri) reports that there were 8. 5 million refugees in limbo for 10 years or more at the end of 2007. Refugee camps are always only supposed to be stopgap measures, but they have proven to be persistent.