Podcasts about refugees deeply

As European countries are finding grounds to refuse asylum to more and more Afghans, even children are being sent to Kabul. We use the word "returnees" cautiously, as many Afghans were born outside the country and are being sent 'back' to a country they have never been to. The first detailed research on Afghan child returnees, by Samuel Hall and Save the Children, points to worrying gaps in protection and planning that expose under age returnees to an array of dangers. The findings come at the same time as a Refugees Deeply investigation, The Vulnerability Contest, found Afghan minors in Greece's refugee camps facing possible asylum rejection and return. The Samuel Hall team spoke with 57 Afghan children, finding that nearly three-quarters of them did not feel safe during the returns process; and that more than half reported instances of violence and coercion. Nearly half of the children arrived in Afghanistan alone and on arrival, the children received little or no support. On this episode of Deeply Talks, Samuel Hall’s lead author Marion Guillaume, in Kabul, discusses these findings with Daniel Howden, senior editor of Refugees Deeply and author of our report on Afghan child soldiers in Greece’s asylum system.

1.5 million Syrian refugees are in Lebanon today. But as the fighting quells in areas of Syria, some of these refugees are considering returning home.    Who gets to return, the places to which they will return, and the circumstances under which refugees move back to Syria are intensely political decisions. As journalist Charlotte Alfred explains, the return of refugees, albeit in small numbers, has begun. And it is becoming a tactic of the civil war.   Charlotte Alfred is the managing director of the news website Refugees Deeply. Her recent longform article "Dangerous Exit: Who Decides How Syrians in Lebanon Go Home" explains the geopolitical calculations and the tactical military considerations behind these refugee returns;  and on an individual level she explores the deeply personal dillemas facing individual refugees as they make this decision.    It should be noted: the UN Refugee Agency is not aiding in the return of refugees to Syria. They have concluded that the situation in Syria is not safe enough to guarantee the security of returning refugees, and in fact, they have warned countries against returning refugees. But Lebanese and Syrian forces are working together to facilitate some returns.    The return of refugees and the politics around may define the next phase of this civil war and Charlotte Alfred has written the most important explanation of what that means.

This edition of Deeply Talks: Lessons from Europe’s Migration Laboratory, features a conversation with Bram Frouws, Head of the Mixed Migration Centre, and Elizabeth Collett, Director of the Migration Policy Institute Europe, moderated by Daniel Howden, Refugees Deeply’s senior editor and co-author of Europe’s Migration Laboratory.

This edition of Deeply Talks: Lessons from Europe’s Migration Laboratory, features a conversation with Bram Frouws, Head of the Mixed Migration Centre, and Elizabeth Collett, Director of the Migration Policy Institute Europe, moderated by Daniel Howden, Refugees Deeply’s senior editor and co-author of Europe’s Migration Laboratory.

People smugglers use social media to advertise their services to refugees and migrants and quickly responding to changing routes and official restrictions. Smugglers and traffickers have also used social media to broadcast the abuse of migrants in order to extort their families. On this episode of Deeply Talks, we discuss how companies like Facebook should respond to the use of their platforms by people smugglers. Has social media made the journeys of migrants and refugees safer or more dangerous? The conversation with Leonard Doyle, spokesperson and director of media and communication at the U.N. migration agency (IOM), and Tuesday Reitano, deputy director at the Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime and co-author of the book “Migrant, Refugee, Smuggler, Saviour”, is moderated by Refugees Deeply’s managing editor, Charlotte Alfred. For more information on the global refugee crisis, visit www.newsdeeply.com/refugeesdeeply and subscribe to our weekly emails.

People smugglers use social media to advertise their services to refugees and migrants and quickly responding to changing routes and official restrictions. Smugglers and traffickers have also used social media to broadcast the abuse of migrants in order to extort their families. On this episode of Deeply Talks, we discuss how companies like Facebook should respond to the use of their platforms by people smugglers. Has social media made the journeys of migrants and refugees safer or more dangerous? The conversation with Leonard Doyle, spokesperson and director of media and communication at the U.N. migration agency (IOM), and Tuesday Reitano, deputy director at the Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime and co-author of the book “Migrant, Refugee, Smuggler, Saviour”, is moderated by Refugees Deeply’s managing editor, Charlotte Alfred. For more information on the global refugee crisis, visit www.newsdeeply.com/refugeesdeeply and subscribe to our weekly emails.

Most images of refugees focus on “boats and camps,” even though this represents a fraction of the lives of the displaced. On this episode of Deeply Talks, Refugees Deeply's senior editor Daniel Howden discusses how to picture refugees differently with Kalpesh Lathigra, photographer, teacher and World Press Photo winner, and Jelena Jovicic, PhD candidate at the Stockholm University. For more information on the global refugee crisis, visit www.newsdeeply.com/refugeesdeeply and subscribe to our weekly emails.

Most images of refugees focus on “boats and camps,” even though this represents a fraction of the lives of the displaced. On this episode of Deeply Talks, Refugees Deeply's senior editor Daniel Howden discusses how to picture refugees differently with Kalpesh Lathigra, photographer, teacher and World Press Photo winner, and Jelena Jovicic, PhD candidate at the Stockholm University. For more information on the global refugee crisis, visit www.newsdeeply.com/refugeesdeeply and subscribe to our weekly emails.

On this episode of Deeply Talks, we take a closer look at the major issues and milestones to watch in 2018, including the Global Compacts on Refugees and Migration and alternative models of refugee support, from development approaches to private sponsorship of refugees. The 30-minute conversation with Kathleen Newland, Senior Fellow and co-founder of the Migration Policy Institute, and Daniel Howden, Refugees Deeply’s senior editor, is moderated by Charlotte Alfred, Refugees Deeply’s managing editor. You can read our earlier outline of the top refugee issues to watch in 2018 here: https://www.newsdeeply.com/refugees/articles/2018/01/12/the-top-refugee-issues-to-monitor-in-2018 For more information on the global refugee crisis, visit www.newsdeeply.com/refugeesdeeply and subscribe to our weekly emails.

On this episode of Deeply Talks, we take a closer look at the major issues and milestones to watch in 2018, including the Global Compacts on Refugees and Migration and alternative models of refugee support, from development approaches to private sponsorship of refugees. The 30-minute conversation with Kathleen Newland, Senior Fellow and co-founder of the Migration Policy Institute, and Daniel Howden, Refugees Deeply’s senior editor, is moderated by Charlotte Alfred, Refugees Deeply’s managing editor. You can read our earlier outline of the top refugee issues to watch in 2018 here: https://www.newsdeeply.com/refugees/articles/2018/01/12/the-top-refugee-issues-to-monitor-in-2018 For more information on the global refugee crisis, visit www.newsdeeply.com/refugeesdeeply and subscribe to our weekly emails.

In September 2015, the president of the World Bank, Jim Yong Kim, King Abdullah of Jordan and David Cameron, then Prime Minister of the UK, met to discuss the so called Compact Model, to create jobs for refugees in Jordan. The Jordan Compact was agreed in early 2016 and a similar, but smaller scale Lebanon Compact followed. Was the Compact Model the win-win solution everyone has been waiting for? In this episode I talk to journalists Daniel Howden and Charlotte Alfred at Refugees Deeply. They have investigated the impact of the Compact Models in Jordan and Lebanon and found that what was meant to work in certain ways on paper, turned out quite differently in practice. Read the full report here: http://issues.newsdeeply.com/the-compact-experiment?utm_source=rd-banner

Refugees Deeply’s wide-ranging investigation into migration flows in the central Mediterranean has been hailed as a must-read and the most comprehensive reporting of the crisis to date. You read it here: http://issues.newsdeeply.com/central-mediterranean-european-priorities-libyan-realities On this episode of Deeply Talks, Refugees Deeply's managing editor Charlotte Alfred speaks with the report’s author Daniel Howden, who offer a behind-the-scenes look at the making of the latest Quarterly. He is joined by Giulia Lagana, asylum and migration expert at Open Society Foundations, to examine the main findings and discuss Italy’s deals and the E.U.’s complicity. For more information on the global refugee crisis, visit www.newsdeeply.com/refugeesdeeply and subscribe to our weekly emails.

Refugees Deeply’s wide-ranging investigation into migration flows in the central Mediterranean has been hailed as a must-read and the most comprehensive reporting of the crisis to date. You read it here: http://issues.newsdeeply.com/central-mediterranean-european-priorities-libyan-realities On this episode of Deeply Talks, Refugees Deeply's managing editor Charlotte Alfred speaks with the report’s author Daniel Howden, who offer a behind-the-scenes look at the making of the latest Quarterly. He is joined by Giulia Lagana, asylum and migration expert at Open Society Foundations, to examine the main findings and discuss Italy’s deals and the E.U.’s complicity. For more information on the global refugee crisis, visit www.newsdeeply.com/refugeesdeeply and subscribe to our weekly emails.

On this episode of Deeply Talks, Refugees Deeply's senior editor Preethi Nallu speaks with Will Carter, head of the Norwegian Refugee Council’s Afghanistan program and Nassim Majidi, cofounder of Kabul-based think-tank Samuel Hall, about the conditions for returnees and how to protect them from being displaced all over again. For more information on the global refugee crisis, visit www.newsdeeply.com/refugeesdeeply and subscribe to our weekly emails.

On this episode of Deeply Talks, Refugees Deeply's senior editor Preethi Nallu speaks with Will Carter, head of the Norwegian Refugee Council’s Afghanistan program and Nassim Majidi, cofounder of Kabul-based think-tank Samuel Hall, about the conditions for returnees and how to protect them from being displaced all over again. For more information on the global refugee crisis, visit www.newsdeeply.com/refugeesdeeply and subscribe to our weekly emails.