The UK Home Secretary Suella Braverman spoke in Washington DC yesterday, raising a number of questions about the role of the United Nations’ Refugee Convention in the context of current global displacement challenges. Host Carolyn Beeler speaks with Karen Jacobsen, professor of global migration at the Fletcher School at Tufts University, about the 1951 International Refugee Convention and its relevance today.
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