R1 SPOTLIGHT: Pablo Bose – Assessing New Threats for Refugee Camps

Every day, people across the world flee their homes due to persecution, conflict, and climate-change-driven hazards. Where migrants go, and how they fare, are determined by a complex web of factors. ̽̽ Professor Pablo Bose, an expert on refugee resettlement and migration, knows through his research the many challenges migrants face, both those in refugee camps around the globe and those getting settled into new homes in the U.S.

Among the challenges facing modern refugee camps face is their size, which Bose has examined in his public research. “What's happened over time is that camps have gotten bigger and bigger,” he notes.  “Where camps used to hold a few thousand people, today, some have hundreds of thousands. Cox’s Bazar in Bangladesh has nearly 1,000,000 people. At that scale, how are these camps governed? How do you provide services? What does education look like? Do the residents have food?

Read an interview with Pablo Bose about his latest work.

Research of this type has contributed to ̽̽'s designation by the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education as an R1 institution, placing it in the top tier of research universities in the U.S.