UNHCR's Filippo Grandi: How the Pandemic has Upended the Lives of Refugees

GZERO World with Ian Bremmer

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🗓️ 12 October 2020

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Guest: Filippo Grandi, UN High Commissioner for Refugees When the pandemic first took hold earlier this year, refugees around the world braced for the worst. Tightly packed camps with poor hygiene seemed like viral hotspots in waiting. But these nightmare scenarios largely did not come to pass, or at least hasn’t yet. Even still, UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi (who recently contracted the virus himself) tells Ian Bremmer in this episode of the GZERO World podcast that the coronavirus has upended the lives of millions of refugees in countless ways. Countries that were already limiting their number of refugees closed up their borders entirely. And today, as nationalist sentiments and straight-up xenophobia become ever more prevalent, 80 million people, or one percent of the world’s population, find themselves displaced.

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0:00.0	These people are escaping. They're not choosing to move. And therefore, if you start putting quotas
0:05.8	and limits, you are already managing it in a manner that limits the right of refugees to sick
0:12.0	asylum where it is safest.
0:16.7	Hello and welcome to the GZero World Podcast, where you'll find extended versions of interviews
0:22.1	from my show on public television.
0:24.5	I'm Ian Bremmer, and today we're taking a look at how a pandemic on the move is forcing
0:29.3	refugees to stand still, making bad situations even worse.
0:33.8	While nightmare scenarios of massive outbreaks in camps and settlements, thankfully haven't played out, at least not yet,
0:40.2	coronavirus has taken a huge toll in other ways.
0:44.0	And I'm talking to a man who's devoted his career to helping the world's most vulnerable.
0:48.6	That's UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Felipe Grande.
0:52.0	Let's get to it.
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1:26.6	Filippo Grande, High Commissioner for Refugees at the United Nations.
1:33.3	So good to be with you, sir.
1:35.3	Thank you. Same here.
1:37.3	So maybe start with some good news.
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