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Edward Stourton and guests trace the course of the biggest refugee crisis since World War Two and consider whether Europe's migrant crisis was a decisive factor in the 2016 Brexit referendum. Guests: Fawaz Gerges, Professor of Middle East Politics and International Relations at the London School of Economics and author of 'Making the Arab World - Nasser, Qutb, and the Clash That Shaped the Middle East' Dawn Chatty, Emerita Professor of Anthropology and Migration at Oxford and author of 'Syria: The Making and Unmaking of a Refuge State' Financial Times columnist Gideon Rachman Researcher: Louise Byrne Producer: Ben Crighton.
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