Geographic Variability of EU Asylum During the European Migration ‘Crisis’
Kara E. Dempsey (UNC-Applachian State University)
25 June, noon to 1:00 P.M.
Memorial Library, Room 126
728 State Street, Madison
Sponsored by:
George L. Mosse Program in History
Friends of the UW Libraries
UW-Madison Jean Monnet European Union Center of Excellence
Boxed lunches provided with R.S.V.P. by 20 June: https://go.wisc.edu/r4qi3o
Kara E. Dempsey is Associate Professor of Geography at UNC-Appalachian State University. She studies international forced displacement, ethnonational conflicts, consolidation of state and regional power, and peace-building processes. She is the author of The Geopolitics of Conflict, Nationalism, and Reconciliation in Ireland (2022), co-editor of Making and Unmaking Refugees (2023), and co-editor of Making Geographies of Peace and Conflict (2024). She is president emeritus of the Political Geography Organization of the American Association of Geographers (AAG), a member of the AAG’s Honor Committee, and a board member of journal Geographical Review. At the University of Wisconsin-Madison, she will research significant changes in migration legislation that the European Union and its member-states implemented in response to increased international immigration (since 2015), along with the resultant impacts on asylum seekers in the region.
