North Korean Refugees: A Complex Humanitarian Crisis
Andrei Lankov (Kookmin University), Stephan Haggard (UC San Diego), JEON WooTaek (Yonsei University), Courtland Robinson (Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health), and Marcus Noland (Yale University)
Over the past decade perhaps 100,000 North Koreans have fled economic deprivation and political repression in their home country. The vast majority transit through China, leading precarious lives there, accumulating the resources for the journey onward to a third country and eventual permanent resettlement, principally in South Korea.
This interdisciplinary workshop, featuring specialists in history, economics, political science, public health, and psychiatry, will examine the political and economic developments driving migration; the patterns and magnitudes of the refugee flows; the challenges of resettling a traumatized population, and ultimately the contribution that US policy might make to alleviate the suffering of this highly vulnerable population. Presentations will be followed by a special screening and discussion of:
North Korea: A Day in the Life
Directed by Pieter Fleury (2004, 48 minutes)
Andrei Lankov,
Department of Social Studies
Kookmin University,
Seoul, Republic of Korea
Stephan Haggard -
Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies,
University of California-San Diego
JEON WooTaek -
Department of Medical Education, Psychiatry
College of Medicine
Yonsei University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
Courtland Robinson - Deputy Director of the Center for Refugee and Disaster Response,
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Marcus Noland - Peterson Institute for International Economics
and, Department of Economics and Council on East Asian Studies at Yale University