EU Responses to the Refugee 'Crisis': What are the Lessons for ASEAN?

Deaths and suffering of migrants trying to enter Europe have become one of the defining moral and political issues of our time. Many humanitarian organizations and refugee advocates argue that these deaths result from Europe's policy of exclusion and closure. Others, especially those who claim that asylum seekers constitute a threat to European values' call for even stricter border controls to resolve the 'refugee crisis.' With numbers of asylum seekers and migrants almost as large as in Europe, Southeast Asia faces similar challenges. The situation in both regions requires collective action. In this lecture, Elżbieta M. Goździak examines the approaches to the refugee crisis in several EU member states and identifies key lessons-importance of regional frameworks, political will, shared values and norms, empowerment of refugees and immigrant--that are applicable to ASEAN.

Date: 15 October 2019

Time: 10am-12pm Venue: Alumni Meeting Room, 12th Floor Political Science Building 3 (Kasem Udhyanin building)

Presenter Bio: Elżbieta M. Goździak is a Visiting Professor at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poland, a Research Professor at OsloMet University in Norway, and a Fellow for Refugee Engaged Scholarship at the Center for Social Justice at Georgetown University, In 2016, she served as the George Soros Visiting Professor in Public Policy at the Central European University in Budapest, Hungary. Formerly, she was Editor-in-Chief of International Migration and held a senior position in the US Federal Government. Elżbieta is currently a visiting Fellow in the Asian Research Center for Migration, Institute of Asian Studies at Chulalongkorn University.

Hosted by the Asian Research Center for Migration (ARCM), Institute of Asian Studies and the Master of Arts and PhD in International Development Studies Program (MAIDS-GRID), Faculty of Political Science in Chulalongkorn University.