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How can we solve the refugee crisis?

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People getting crushed alive, people lost their children. The Taliban were getting very impatient. They began hitting people. I remember they whipped my husband and my daughter, she was four.

This LSEIQ podcast episode examines the UK's refugee and asylum seeker policies through academic analysis and personal testimony. Stuart Gordon from LSE provides comparative European data showing the UK lags far behind in asylum intake, while Afghan refugee Halima shares her harrowing Kabul evacuation story and current hotel limbo, and activist Sveto Mohammad Ishok argues refugees could solve UK labour shortages. The episode critically evaluates the Rwanda deportation policy and the disparity between how Ukrainian and Afghan refugees are treated.

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