Recorded November 7, 2017.

In Europe and the U.S. today, immigration continues to cause division in public debates around globalisation, security, labour, war, and economics. Immigration is understood to have impacted on the outcome of the Brexit referendum and was a key debating point during the Trump-Clinton 2016 Presidential election and numerous European elections which have taken place since.

This discussion on migration in crisis will bring different disciplinary perspectives from history to human rights, and linguistics to peace studies on ways that communities think about and respond to the arrival of migrants.

Moderator: David Rieff

PANELISTS

‘The Roots of the Immigration Debate in the United States’

Dr Hidetaka Hirota, Columbia University

‘Every Country in the World is Represented on My Bus’: Attitudes to Europe’s New Multilingualism’

Professor Lorna Carson, Trinity College Dublin

‘From Securitizing to Peacebuilding - Alternative Responses to the Crisis for Migrants in Europe’

Professor Gillian Wylie, Trinity College Dublin

‘In 'Crisis' - Refugee Protection and its Rights Based Narrative’

Professor Rosemary Byrne, Trinity College Dublin

Bio: Rosemary Byrne is an Associate Professor

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