Political Science 1020E Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Steven Pinker, Availability Heuristic, Death Of Alan Kurdi
6 Jul 2016
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Lecture 1: the refugee crisis/the decline of violence. Refugee crisis is an unpredictable factor in canada"s upcoming federal election. Refugee: an individual who has been forced to flee their country due to fear/risk of persecution or violence. Unacr. org -> approximately 20 million refugees currently exist in the world. Turkey holds the highest number of refugees currently (most from syria) Alan kurdi -> 3 year old boy fell off boat with older brother and mother (all drown fleeing syria) Father -> barber in damascus, aunt in canada trying to raise funds to bring the family to canada. Refugees in hungary -> walking to austrian border, eventually hungarian government provided buses refugee crisis in europe. Europe"s quota plan to take in 160,000 syrian refugees, but some countries are resisting. However, there are hundreds of thousands more refugees to come (germany is cool with this)
