Refugee Emergencies and Resettlement: A Policy Journey from Vietnam to Syria
Event Type(s):
Speaker Program
Description:
Ms. Doris Meissner, former Commissioner of the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS), is a Senior Fellow at the Migration Policy Institute (MPI), where she directs the Institute’s U.S. immigration policy work. Ms. Meissner will talk about how the Vietnamese refugee situation was understood and handled and the key actors, and how/why those considerations have changed in the ensuing years to the point today where the U.S. has all but shut down one of the most compelling refugee emergencies in the world. She will suggest what she thinks has happened and why and what is being lost in the pullback we're seeing.
From 1993-2000, Ms. Meissner served in the Clinton administration as Commissioner of the INS, then a bureau in the U.S. Department of Justice. She first joined the Justice Department in 1973 as a White House Fellow and Special Assistant to the Attorney General. She served in various senior policy posts until 1981, when she became Acting Commissioner of the INS and then Executive Associate Commissioner, the third-ranking post in the agency. In 1986, she joined the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace as a Senior Associate. Ms. Meissner created the Endowment's Immigration Policy Project, which evolved into the MPI in 2001.
This program is in remembrance of Ambassador Robert Hopkins Miller.
Event Date:
5/10/2019
Event Time:
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM Eastern
Location:
DACOR Bacon House 1801 F Street, NW Washington, DC 20006 UNITED STATES
