This video is a virtual Zoom conversation with Betsy Fisher, Director of
Strategy for the International Refugee Assistance Project.
The talk, entitled “Refugee Resettlement and Immigration
Solutions after the U.S. Withdrawal from Afghanistan”, was moderated by
Professor Jaclyn Kelley-Widmer and co-sponsored by the Cornell Migrations
Initiative.
About the talk:
Afghan
refugees have long comprised the largest or second-largest group of refugees in
the world, and the number of Afghans seeking safety outside Afghanistan
increased dramatically even before the U.S. government's chaotic withdrawal
from Afghanistan.
Betsy Fisher, Director of Strategy at
International Refugee Assistance Project (IRAP), will discuss why U.S.
immigration programs and international refugee protection systems failed to
achieve their goals, and policy solutions to improve them.
About our featured guest:
Betsy Fisher is the Director of Strategy at the
International Refugee Assistance Project (IRAP). She coordinates IRAP’s efforts
to screen potential clients, represent refugees in UNHCR proceedings, and
provide self-help materials to refugees and displaced people. She previously
served as IRAP’s policy director, Jordan staff attorney and intake coordinator
based in Amman, Jordan. Betsy has published op-eds and academic articles about
statelessness and refugee resettlement in publications like the New York Times
and the Michigan Law Review.
Betsy is a graduate of the University of Michigan Law
School, the Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies at the
University of Michigan Rackham Graduate School, and Denison University.