Argentina’s Innovative Humanitarian Visa: Responding to Disaster Displacement

While disasters and climate change displace large numbers of people throughout the world, governments have often struggled to adopt appropriate policy responses. In May 2022, the government of Argentina introduced a new humanitarian visa for people displaced in Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean by disasters, enabling them to remain in the country for up to three years. This online event will feature presentations by Argentine government officials on the development of this new program as well as reflections on the regional and global implications of this policy development.

Speakers:

• Andrés Pérez Esquivel, director of international affairs at the National Directorate of Migration of the Argentine Republic
• Susan Fratzke, senior policy analyst at the Migration Policy Institute
• Atle Solberg, head of the secretariat of the Platform on Disaster Displacement
• Elizabeth Ferris, director of the Institute for the Study of International Migration at Georgetown University

Language – English

Event is open to faculty, staff, students and others in the policy community.

Please register for the Zoom Webinar here.

The recording is available here.