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Imagining Refugia
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Imagining Refugia

Could a New Transnational Polity Help Solve the Refugee Crisis?

Nicholas Van Hear
Foreign Affairs, 2017
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Today, over 65 million displaced people reside in temporary living spaces both within and outside their home nations. Yet individual countries and international organizations alike struggle to garner the resources and political will to find satisfying solutions to this crisis. Therefore, argues Nicholas Van Hear of the University of Oxford, it's time to help refugees help themselves. In an essay in Foreign Affairs, he proposes the creation of a transnational polity, dubbed “Refugia,” which would give refugees the opportunity to rebuild their lives.

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  • A majority of the world’s 65 million displaced people fend for themselves or stay in temporary shelters for years, unable to gain lawful employment and start a new life.
  • The creation of a transnational confederation, dubbed “Refugia,” offers one possible solution to the mass displacement crisis.
  • Refugia would act as a loose confederation of self-governing refugee communities scattered across the world.

About the Author

Nicholas Van Hear is the Deputy Director of University of Oxford's Centre on Migration, Policy, and Society (COMPAS). 

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