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Event Podcast: "Open Borders, Local Closures: The Politics of Local Responses to Refugee Crises"
Audio recording of a March 1, 2019 seminar with Lama Mourad, Research Fellow, Middle East Initiative and Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Political Science, University of Toronto.
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Mourad's book project analyzes the politics of local responses to the Syrian refugee influx in Lebanon, the largest per capita host of refugees in the world. In broader terms, she asks: What are the drivers of state responses to large-scale migration? How do so-called “weak” states manage and govern migrants on their territory? Finally, what explains variation in sub-national migration policies? In the absence of a national policy response, Mourad finds that municipal policy becomes the most significant form of state response. She argues that variations in local-level policy responses to the Syrian refugee influx in Lebanon are to a great extent a function of local electoral competition and dynamics of policy mimicry within neighbouring areas.
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