Summary of How Operation Syrian Refugees Informs Canada’s Responses to Current and Future Refugee Crises

The authors discuss several lessons from this large resettlement effort that can inform our response to current refugee crises. They question Canada’s focus on ‘signal’ refugee movements – events of forcible displacement that garner international media attention – rather than endemic situations.

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