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Kate Reed is a graduate student in economic and social history at the University of Oxford. She previously worked as an instructor for the Global History Lab and History Dialogues at Princeton University. icon

“No Words”: Refugee Camps and Empathy’s Limits

By Gerawork Teferra & Kate Reed

Empathy will not close the refugee camps, nor will it aid refugees. So what will?

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