成人大片

Public lecture: Transforming a broken refugee system

Tuesday, 26 September 2017

The 成人大片's 2017 Hugo Lecture will offer audiences a new vision for a global refugee system and will explore what that might mean for Australian refugee policy.

The free public lecture – – will be delivered by Professor Alexander Betts, Director of the Refugee Studies Centre at the University of Oxford.

The event will be held in the 成人大片's Bonython Hall at 5.30pm Tuesday 3 October.

"The number of people displaced by war and persecution is at an all-time high. As needs grow, governments are struggling to find responses that are sustainable at scale, and international institutions are failing," Professor Betts says.

"Camps and boats have too often become the dominant focus of policy, perpetuating an assumption of refugees as inevitably vulnerable or threatening," he says.

Professor Betts, an author and editor of numerous academic books and articles on refugee issues, will draw on his extensive research into the economic lives and contributions of refugees.

He will demonstrate that, under the right conditions, refugees can be a benefit to their host societies, and will argue for changes to refugee policy.

The Hugo Lecture, established in memory of the late demographer Professor Graeme Hugo AO, is hosted by the University's .

WHAT: 2017 Hugo Lecture: Transforming a Broken Refugee System by Prof Alexander Betts (Oxford University)
WHERE: Bonython Hall, North Terrace campus, 成人大片
WHEN: 5.30–7.00pm Tuesday 3 October 2017
COST: FREE, all welcome –

This event is supported by the Don Dunstan Foundation, Multicultural SA, and the Australian Migrant Resource Centre, and is part of .

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