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Professor Crawford
Wars, conflict,persecution, state failure, and even climate change have forced more people than at any other time since records began, to flee their homes and seek refuge and safety elsewhere. Most of the world’s 60 million displaced people in 2015 were fleeing ethnic and religious conflicts. We will explore the central issues at stake for both refugees and host countries, including protracted refugee states, why refugees must take life-threatening journys once they have been forced from their homes, issues of resettlement, and the impact of the crisis in Europe. We will then focus on some of the root causes of the crisis in global ethnic and sectarian conflict, and the Syrian conflict as a case study, Finally, we will look to the future and the search for workable and robust solutions.
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Week I The Global Refugee Crisis and Course Overview
"The Mismanagement of a Migrant Crisis Cost Rome its empire" http://qz.com/677380/1700-years-ago-the-mismanagement-of-a-migrant-crisis-cost-rome-its-empire/
Watch "Growing Home"
Melissa Fleming: How to help refugees rebuild their world Ted Talk 2014
Session 1 slides
Week II: Why Don't Refugees Fly?
Watch: Turkish Coast Guard fires Water Canon at Refugees
Watch the film: "In this World" (2002) docudrama following a refugee/migrant (which one?) from Pakistan to London
Barat Ali Batoor: My desperate journey with a human smuggler Ted Talk 2014
Lynzy Billing, "These are the Most Powerful Photographs of the Syrian Refugee Crisis in 2015" BuzzFeedNews, Dec. 11, 2015
Session 2 Slides
Week III: The Political, Social, and Economic Impact of the Crisis on Europe
Read: "The New Europeans" New York Times Magazine April 10, 2016
Read: "Moral Leader or Moral Hazard: Germany’s Response to the Refugee crisis and its Impact on European Solidarity"
Session 3 Slides
Week IV: Conflict and Climate as Causes of the Global Refugee Crisis
Session 4 Slides (click on the links in blue within the slides for the videos)
Session 4 Paths to Reconciliation (crowd sourced organizations welcome. Email bev@berkeley.edu)
And for those who wish to read more deeply:
- Peter H. Gleick, "Water, Drought, Climate Change, and Conflict in Syria" 2013
- Muller J. Z. (2008). "Us and Them: The Enduring Power of Ethnic Nationalism" Foreign Affairs, March/April, 18-35.
- Kurzban and Leary 2001. “Stigmatization and Exclusion” http://instruct.uwo.ca/psychology/371g/Kurzban2001.pd
- Gamson, William A. "Hiroshima, the Holocaust, and the Politics of Exclusion." American Sociological Review Vol. 60:No. 1., February 1, 1995.
- Rogers Brubaker: Ethnicity without groups. European Journal of Sociology (2002), 43:
163‐177 (177-185 is a case study of Hungarians and Romanians in Transylvania for those interested)
- Rogers Brubaker, "Religious Dimensions of Political Conflict and Violence," 2015
- Fearon J. and Laitin D.(2000). Violence and the Social Construction of Ethnic Identity. International Organization 54, (4), 845-877.
- Rik Coolsaet, "Facing the Fourth foreign Fighters Wave: What Drives Europeans to Syria, and to the Islamic State? Insights from the Belgian Case," March 2016
- War in the Central African Republic
Week V: A Case Study of Syria
Session 5 Slides
Week VI: The Search for Solutions
Session 6 Slides
And for those who wish to read more deeply:
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