Start Date

21-2-2018 12:00 PM

End Date

21-2-2018 12:50 PM

Description

Disasters, terrorist activities, wars, and other factors trigger large streams of people fleeing crisis and seeking refuge. These flows reached record levels in Europe from 2015 to 2017, when many refugees took "the Balkan route," through Greece, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and Serbia, to reach north-western Europe. A massive response, one of the largest humanitarian actions in Europe since the Balkan Wars in the 1990s, included volunteers and organizations from the public and nonprofit-sector. Due to complexities and national variations in policy making, this crisis response consisted of five different, though somewhat overlapping phases, in which the "place" -- refugee camps and centers -- changed dramatically.

Keywords

placemaking, refugees, place

Type

Other

Comments

Speakers responded to the following three questions and Shaunna Barnhart, Director of the Place Studies program summarized the speakers' responses.

Prompts --

  • How does your work relate to the concept of place-making?
  • What are potential benefits and/or shortcomings you see for place-making in sustainability?
  • What aspects of your work can we apply to a place-making approach to sustainability at Bucknell and in our local region?

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Feb 21st, 12:00 PM Feb 21st, 12:50 PM

Temporary Places : The Balkan Refugee Route

Disasters, terrorist activities, wars, and other factors trigger large streams of people fleeing crisis and seeking refuge. These flows reached record levels in Europe from 2015 to 2017, when many refugees took "the Balkan route," through Greece, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and Serbia, to reach north-western Europe. A massive response, one of the largest humanitarian actions in Europe since the Balkan Wars in the 1990s, included volunteers and organizations from the public and nonprofit-sector. Due to complexities and national variations in policy making, this crisis response consisted of five different, though somewhat overlapping phases, in which the "place" -- refugee camps and centers -- changed dramatically.