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Give refugees dignity, wherever they are

Displaced children and adults can wait decades to return home or resettle — research and policy must catch up.
  1. Serena Parekh

    1. Serena Parekh is a professor of philosophy at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts, and author of No Refuge: Ethics and the Global Refugee Crisis.

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More than four million people have fled Ukraine since Vladimir Putin’s brutal invasion. Half the nation’s children are displaced. It is crucial to study states’ moral obligations around asylum and resettlement and to consider how these outcomes affect individual well-being, public health, economics and political stability. Yet in focusing on these end points too narrowly, researchers and policymakers can overlook another set of extremely important questions.

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Nature 604, 9 (2022)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-00938-2

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