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Every week, The WorldPost asks an expert to shed light on a topic driving headlines around the world. Today, we speak with author Ben Rawlence about the refugee crisis and his work in Kenya’s Dadaab camp.

The European refugee crisis is just one part of a larger crisis playing out along borders and in camps across the world.

A record 60 million people worldwide are currently forcibly displaced from their homes. Among them, 14 million have already spent five or more years as refugees — what the United Nations classifies as “protracted displacement.” Many eke out a life in refugee camps, and most do not have the right to work or move around freely.

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Kheyro, one of the nine Dadaab residents featured in City Of Thorns. Kheyro was a student and then a teacher in the camp. She came to Dadaab with her mother Rukia when she was two, fleeing Somalia’s civil war in 1992.

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/dadaab-ben-rawlence-city-of-thorns_us_56b0e144e4b0a1b96203cbaa

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