Migration and Displacement in Crisis: Protection, Policy, and Practice

Harvard HKS

This course examines refugees, migrants, stateless people, and internally displaced persons in contemporary crisis settings. It explores how conflict, political violence, disasters, climate stress, economic precarity, rights violations, and restrictive migration policies shape human mobility, protection risks, and policy responses. Students study how international protection categories, including refugee status, internal displacement, statelessness, mixed migration, and irregular…