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European Migration Panel

Europe’s Migration Crisis  March 21 | Noon | Room K2A | Klein Hall More than one million migrants and refugees reached Europe’s shores in 2015. Which Member State(s) should bear the responsibility of hosting refugees? How will this large influx impact Europe’s regional stability?  Why are so many forced to …

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Peter Spiro keynotes #Strategizens

  Today, IILPP Co-Director Peter Spiro gave a keynote talk at the “Strategic Citizenship” conference at Princeton. Below is a summary of his address: Plural citizenship has become a stealth incident of globalization. Historically deplored as immoral, it is now a commonplace. Its rise poses profound questions relating to membership …

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Feb. 25: Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Global Challenges of Urbanization and Migration

This Thursday, Feb. 25, IILPP Co-Director Jaya Ramji-Nogales will participate in a workshop at Perry World House at the University of Pennsylvania titled “Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Global Challenges of Urbanization and Migration” at Claudia Cohen Hall, G14 (Terrace Room). Professor Ramji-Nogales will be featured in the panel “Gender-based Approaches to Urbanization …

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History, Hysteria, and Syrian Refugees

By Jaya Ramji-Nogales November 22, 2015, 11:30 AM This post was originally published on Just Security.   A week after the ISIS terrorist attacks in Paris, American political hysteria is on full display. On Thursday, the House voted to tighten screening procedures on Syrian refugees; never mind that the extraordinarily …

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Prof. Ramji-Nogales Presents at “Beyond Survival” Conference

On November 7, 2015 Prof. Jaya Ramji-Nogales, Co-Director of Temple’s Institute for International Law and Public Policy, presented on Labor Laws and Access to Livelihoods at the “Beyond Survival: Livelihood Strategies for Refugees in the Middle East” conference at Cornell Law School. The three-day conference was held at Cornell University, …

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Prof. Ramji-Nogales presents “Migration Emergencies” at ASIL Forum

On October 23, 2015 Professor Jaya Ramji-Nogales, Co-Director of the Temple Institute for International Law and Public Policy, presented Migration Emergencies at the American Society of International Law’s Mid-Year Research Forum at American University Washington College of Law in Washington DC.  

Prof. Ramji-Nogales Discusses Asylum Law at Philadelphia Bar Association

On October 14, Jaya Ramji-Nogales discussed particular social group jurisprudence as part of a panel on Recent Developments and Trends in Asylum Law sponsored by Global Philly 2015 and the Philadelphia Bar Association’s International Law and Immigration Committees. The event was held at the Philadelphia Bar Association, and featured perspectives …

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Prof. Jaya Ramji-Nogales Discusses New Book at NYU School of Law

On October 5, Professor Jaya Ramji-Nogales, Co-Director of the Temple Institute for International Law and Public Policy, presented Lives in the Balance: Asylum Adjudication by the Department of Homeland Security at New York University School of Law. The event was co-sponsored by the Immigration and Nationality Committee of the New …

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Revealing Disparities: Empirical Studies of the Asylum Process

On April 1, 2015, Professor Jaya Ramji-Nogales, Co-Director of the Institute for International Law and Public Policy and Professor of Law, presented the 2015 Friel-Scanlan Lecture, “Revealing Disparities: Empirical Studies of the Asylum Process.”