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Daniel Masterson
The scale of the global refugee problem is a nightmare told in numbers: 26 million people are classified by the U.N. as refugees, with 79.5 million forcibly displaced worldwide if we count those forced to flee in their own countries. To put that second number into perspective, if all those displaced people formed a nation, it would rank as one of the 25 largest countries in the world.
Daniel Masterson, a UC Santa Barbara assistant professor of political science and a co-author of a new paper on refugees, said that as bad as the numbers are, the public’s tendency to use the term “refugee crisis” implies mass displacement is a recent phenomenon or something novel. But, he noted, it isn’t new at all.
Grassley Grills Biden Nominee Over Push to Lift Sanctions on Group Tied to Terror
Senator asks USAID pick Samantha Power about advocating on behalf of a foreign sanctioned entity. Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Samantha Power answers a question from Indira Lakshmanan during a panel at The Texas Tribune Festival on September 28, 2019 in Austin, Texas. (Photo by Sergio Flores/Getty Images) Adam Kredo • March 8, 2021 5:45 pm
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The Biden administration’s nomination of Samantha Power to head the United States Agency for International Development is facing congressional scrutiny amid allegations the former Obama administration’s United Nations ambassador personally lobbied to remove a terror-designated group from the U.S. sanctions list.