Calling People Fleeing Their Homes Refugees Instead of Migrants Is Not Enough
In recent weeks, there has been much discussion about distinguishing between migrants and refugees. Images of thousands of people fleeing their homes, some...
Lama Mourad is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto, where she researches migration and local governance in the Middle East. From 2012-2015, Lama was a CGS-Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) doctoral fellow, and is currently a fellow at the Trudeau Centre for Peace, Conflict, and Justice. She will be returning to the Middle East as an affiliate of the Center for Arab and Middle Eastern Studies at the American University of Beirut in the fall of 2015.