People handled . Just to give you a few numbers to think about as we start off, according to the un, there are 272 million migrants in the world, so were talking about people who have moved from country to country. That is a large number. 3. 5 of the global population. But another number more striking is 70 million displaced persons and if you think about that, we are living at a time where we see more people forced out of their lives and out of their homes, sometimes out of their countries than at any time in history, we see these people on the move. Over half of them, over half of the refugees that are in other countries are from three countries, syria, afghanistan and south suzanne. South sudan, which is also really striking. When you think about what this means for policy, obviously has to be policy for handling refugees, policy for migration, policy for immigration of people who are not refugees. The country still today, the at has the largest foreignborn population is the United
For the international and adversity hosted this discussion. The topic of this discussion were about to have his immigration, finding solutions. And i think the first thing we have to do is say what is the problem exactly. And when you start thinking about what is the problem, it goes in a lot of different directions. You have an issue of global migration, you have immigration and immigration policy in the United States, refugee and displaced persons and you have the treatment of people and human rights and how are these people handle. Just to give you a few numbers to think about as we start off, according to the un there are 272 million migrants in the world so were talking about people who have moved from country to country, that is a large number. Three and half of the global population. But another number more striking is 70 million displaced person and if you think about that, we are living at a time where we see more people forced out of their lives and out of their homes, someti
Adversity hosted this discussion. The topic of this discussion were about to have his immigration, finding solutions. And i think the first thing we have to do is say what is the problem exactly. And when you start thinking about what is the problem, it goes in a lot of different directions. You have an issue of global migration, you have immigration and immigration policy in the United States, refugee and displaced persons and you have the treatment of people and human rights and how are these people handle. Just to give you a few numbers to think about as we start off, according to the un there are 272 million migrants in the world so were talking about people who have moved from country to country, that is a large number. Three and half of the global population. But another number more striking is 70 million displaced person and if you think about that, we are living at a time where we see more people forced out of their lives and out of their homes, sometimes out of their countries