The global refugee crisis : how should we respond? : Arbour and Schama vs. Farage and Steyn /

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Imprint:Toronto, Ontario : Anansi, 2016.
©2016
Description:94 pages ; 21 cm.
Language:English
Series:The Munk debates
Munk debates.
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11310974
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Other authors / contributors:Arbour, Louise, panelist.
Schama, Simon, panelist.
Griffiths, Rudyard, editor.
Steyn, Mark, panelist.
Farage, Nigel, 1964- panelist.
ISBN:9781487002121
1487002122
9781487002138
Notes:Issued also in electronic format.
Summary:"The world is facing the worst humanitarian crisis since the Second World War. Over 300,000 are dead in Syria, and one and half million are either injured or disabled. Four and a half million people are trying to flee the country. And Syria is just one of a growing number of failed or failing states in the Middle East and North Africa. How should developed nations respond to human suffering on this mass scale? Do the prosperous societies of the West, including Canada and the U.S., have a moral imperative to assist as many refugees as they reasonably and responsibly can? Or, is this a time for vigilance and restraint in the face of a wave of mass migration that risks upending the tolerance and openness of the West? The eighteenth semi-annual Munk Debate, which was held on April 1, 2016, pits former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour and leading historian Simon Schama against leader of the UK Independence Party Nigel Farage and bestselling author Mark Steyn to debate the West's response to the global refugee crisis"--
Review by Publisher's Weekly Review

In a provocative debate, Arbour, a former UN high commissioner for human rights, and Schama, a historian-both proponents of more open policies with respect to asylum-seekers-clashed with Farage, a former leader of the U.K. Independence Party, and Steyn, a conservative author and human rights activist, on the challenges that the global refugee crisis presents to Western society. This print transcript of the 18th semiannual Munk Debate vividly preserves the charged atmosphere in Roy Thomson Hall in Toronto, where the intensely emotional debate was held on April 1, 2016, and enhances it with pre-debate interviews with the participants. Readers will be captivated by the strong arguments, passionate tone, and numerous examples of the ill-prepared responses of Western countries to the worst humanitarian crisis since WWII. Covering topics such as the responses of Canada, the U.S., and their European allies to the refugee crisis, and how the influx of refugee seekers from Syria affects the security of developed nations, the debate breaks stereotypes and challenges the established perspectives of the refugee crisis. (Mar.) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.


Review by Publisher's Weekly Review