Global Ethics Weekly: Refugees, from Utica to Uganda, with Kavitha Rajagopalan

Sep 27, 2018

As the Trump administration cuts refugee resettlement in the U.S. to its lowest number in decades, this population in other nations has exploded in recent years. Carnegie Council Senior Fellow Kavitha Rajagopalan details what this looks like for one refugee in Utica, New York and the challenges that countries like Uganda and Turkey are facing.

As the Trump administration cuts refugee resettlement in the U.S. to its lowest number in decades, this population in other nations has exploded in recent years. Carnegie Council Senior Fellow Kavitha Rajagopalan details what this looks like for one refugee in Utica, New York and the challenges that countries like Uganda and Turkey are facing.

This podcast features an excerpt from David Miliband's 2017 Public Affairs talk and it references this New York Times article, written by Julie Hirschfeld Davis, and Rajagopalan's article on immigrant communities, published in The Nation. And check out the UNHCR website for more on refugees in Uganda.

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