Can the rise in global displacement be r...

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100 million people around the world are now displaced. War, violence, persecution and rights abuses are some of the main causes. But can this rising trend be reversed? And if so, how?

Join host Mohammed Jamjoom.

Guests:

Shabia Mantoo, Spokesperson at UN Refugee Agency.

Nando Sigona, Professor of International Migration at University of Birmingham and Director of Institute of Research into Superdiversity.

Behrouz Boochani, Author and Former Refugee.

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