Reminder: Refugees, Displaced Persons, and mounting political tensions in Europe (History as it Happens talk)

[Anne Leask]

Head over to the History Department tomorrow at lunch for Professor Lynne Taylor's History as it Happens talk, "Refugees, Displaced Persons, and mounting political tensions in Europe<https://uwaterloo.ca/history/events/refugees-displaced-persons-and-mounting-political-tensions>".

The number of people arriving in Europe has increased rapidly since the beginning of the civil war in Syria in 2011. In 2015, more than 1 million people fled to Europe: most were trying to escape the civil war in Syria; others came from conflict and poverty in Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Eritrea, and Nigeria, among other countries.

The people arriving have become a political flash point across Europe, causing the open borders of the European Union to be closed, in several cases, and the question of how to respond to the crisis has created tension between and within the countries of Europe.

Where: HH 139
When: Thursday 9 February, 12:00 - 1:00

Coffee is provided--please feel free to bring your own lunch!
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Anne Leask
Undergraduate Program Co-ordinator
Department of History<https://uwaterloo.ca/history/current-undergraduates>
HH 154 | x35828
Office Hours: 8:30 to 12:00 & 1:00 to 4:30
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