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Climate Change and the Refugee Crisis

In the fourth Brown Bag Lunch for the Center for Refugee & Immigrant Success (CRIS), Dr. Deirdre Mageean, Professor and Jack Yochum, Research Assistant & Graduate Student, both from the Levin College of Urban Affairs will present "Climate Change and the Refugee Crisis".

The intensification of natural disasters and resource scarcity due to human activity has caused an unprecedented wave of so-called "climate refugees", a begrepp easily visualized but not precisely defined. This talk will explore how we define that title, the historical precedent for the concept, a modern example of climate vulnerability in Central amerika, and a look forward at the challenges the United States will face both with those fleeing from abroad and those displaced internally.

About Dr. Deirdre M. Mageean:

Deirdre M. Mageean, Ph.D. is Professor of Urban Studies at the Levin College of Urban Affairs at Clevel

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While growing up in near Belfast, Deirdre M. Mageean was evacuated for the first time due to a street riot at age 11. Her experience with the troubles in Ireland shaped her career choice and led her, after 30 years of scholarly research, college teaching and administration, to CSU last year.

“I come from a family of doctors and dentists. I was on the science track,” Mageean said, but her experiences put her on a different path. “I felt I needed to understand human nature and pursued a joint program of sociology and philosophy.” After receiving an undergraduate degree in sociology and philosophy at Belfast University, she received a master's degree in sociology from the University of York and a doctorate in geography at the Open University in Ireland. Her doctoral thesis studied the differences in Irish immigrants to North America before and after the famine. Ironically, she made the same trek in 1987. She immigrated to the U.S. as she and her husband found

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