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Tempest-Tossed: Borders and Immigration – Global Leaders Online Program (High School Students)
July 27, 2020 - July 31, 2020
Week 4 (July 27-31): The devastation of the Second World War left seven to eleven million people searching for a new home; today there are over 70 million refugees or displaced people worldwide. Despite being signatories to the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights and its promise of freedom of movement, today’s economic powers nonetheless vacillate between open, semi-open, and closed borders in their approaches to immigration from developing nations. Meanwhile, San Diego lies a stone’s throw from the world’s second-busiest land-border crossing. In this session, students will reflect on the challenges and opportunities posed by ever-increasing global migration and the ways in which state, international, and non-governmental organizations respond.
