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The struggle to accommodate the world’s refugees

Reece Jones (Hawaii), Corey Johnson (UNC), Wendy Brown (UC-Berkeley), Gabriel Popescu (IUSB), Polly Pallister-Wilkins (Amsterdam), Alison Mountz (Wilfrid Laurier), and Emily Gilbert (Toronto): Interventions on the State of Sovereignty at the Border. The struggle to accommodate the world’s refugees raises a wider question: Do states have an absolute right to control borders? Phillip Cole on framing statelessness. Krishna Chaitanya Vadlamannati and Grace Kelly (UCD): Welfare Chauvinism? Refugee Flows and Electoral Support for Populist-Right Parties in Industrial Democracies. Hungary and Slovakia challenged Europe’s refugee scheme — they just lost badly. Turning away refugees is an American tradition.

Mary Elizabeth Crock, Laura Smith-Khan, Ronald McCallum, and Ben Saul (Sydney): Disability in Refugee Populations. The forgotten refugees: A new report highlights the crisis facing unprotected, internally displaced populations. Jack I. Garvey (San Francisco): The Future Legal Management of Mass Migration. Refugia: A utopian solution to the crisis of mass displacement.