The Briefing Room - The Afghan Refugee Crisis

The Taliban takeover over of Afghanistan has left millions of people internally displaced and hundreds of thousands more hoping to leave the country soon.

Where will these Afghan refugees try to go and how will they be received by different countries?

Joining David Aaronovitch in The Briefing Room are:

Camille Le Coz, Policy Analyst with Migration Policy Institute.

Michael Semple, Professor at the Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice at Queen's University Belfast and former UN co-ordinator for the Bamiyan region in Afghanistan.

Peter Walsh, researcher in migration at the Migration Observatory.

Dominic Casciani, BBC Home and Legal correspondent

Producers: Ben Carter, Kirsteen Knight and Sharon Hemans
Studio Manager: James Beard
Production Co-ordinator: Iona Hammond
Editors: Alison Gee and Jasper Corbett

Published on Thursday, 2nd September 2021.

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