David Miliband explains the global refugee crisis
The Gray Area with Sean Illing
The Global Refugee Crisis
The UN Convention on Refugees was signed in 1951, the US Refugee Act of 1980 put it into US law. It said that anyone who has a well-founded fear of persecution should be treated as a refugee if they cross national borders. The numbers have risen and fallen but compared to 10 years ago, we're now at record-breaking levels. And this is probably doubly paradoxical because there aren't any wars between states at the moment. This is a time when the state system may be weak, but it is not a feature of the modern international relations environment.
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