In this new blogpost, Professor Humanitarian Aid and Reconstruction at ISS, Dorothea Hilhorst, along side Professor in Conflict and Organization Research at the Ruhr-Universität, Dennis Dijkzeul, and Peter Heintze from KUNO discuss the reception of Venezuelan refugees in Curacao and the role of the Netherlands on this matter.
'Reception of refugees in the region' is a central concept in the foreign policy of the Dutch government. It means that the Netherlands wants to financially support countries that accept refugees fleeing from a conflict in a neighboring region rather than enabling refugees to migrate onwards to Europe. Usually, the regions where refugees need to be sheltered are far away from the borders of our Kingdom. Suddenly, however, the Netherlands Kingdom has become the region itself.
Read the full text - Venezuelan refugees on Curaçao have entered the Kingdom of the Netherlands!
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