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The rise in anti-immigration sentiments, especially amid challenging conditions, could have far-reaching consequences for Canada’s social harmony and economic prosperity.
Women who have moved to Australia, particularly from traumatic settings, are particularly at risk of gendered violence. Here’s what our research found helps them to speak up.
By capping immigration applications from Sudanese people fleeing the civil war at 3,250, and limiting eligibility to Sudanese with family in Canada, the federal government is leaving millions behind.
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New tech tools are more intrusive and subtler than physical barriers. They invade migrants’ privacy and are a threat to personal security.
Burkina Faso tops the list of the world’s most neglected crises in the world for the second time in a row.
High Court decisions, government announcements and opposition speeches have all discussed migration. It’s become a heated, sometimes panicked conversation.
In Sudan, amid a growing humanitarian crisis caused by a year-long and ongoing war, neighbourhood organizations have stepped in as first responders, and to lead the call for peace.
Sharing eyewitness accounts of atrocities is a powerful way of gathering international sympathy, and it has a long history.
Governmental co-operation is needed to accompany refugees through Canadian systems: from arrival, through education paths and into employment.
The decision is a missed opportunity to move away from Australia’s practice of indefinite immigration detention.
The bill, which aims to force people to cooperate in their own deportation, was subject to an inquiry. The government wants to proceed with the bill unchanged, despite widespread community concerns.
Safe Haven is an excoriating account of a shameful period of Australian history, told in a life-affirming voice that imagines a more humane future.
Recent comments about international students in Canada significantly abusing the asylum system are misleading and obscure the context needed to understand a complex issue.
People who enter the US as refugees or with asylum generally adapt quickly and become productive members of society. But cities need help getting them settled and employed.
Refugees play a key role in Turkish politics. Last month’s electoral shock raises the question of how – or whether – elections can change the situation for displaced people.
Each year the UK incarcerates thousands of asylum seekers in prison-like immigration detention centres.
Jordan’s foreign policy has landed the kingdom in hot water.
The case could result in further limits on the immigration minister’s powers to keep refugees in detention indefinitely.
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Associate Professor, School of Law, Murdoch University
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Lecturer and Senior Research Fellow at the South African Research Chair in International Law (SARCIL), University of Johannesburg
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Associate Professor in Human Rights and International Law, University of Newcastle
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Adjunct professor, University of Adelaide
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Professor of International Migration and Forced Displacement and Director of the Institute for Research into International Migration and Superdiversity, University of Birmingham
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Research Professor, Centre for Policy Research (UNU-CPR), United Nations University
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Assistant Professor in the Department of Equity Studies, York University, Canada
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Senior Research Fellow, Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law, UNSW Sydney
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Associate Professor of Law, Member of Law as Protection Centre, Deakin Law School, Deakin University
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Senior Research Fellow, Andrew & Renata Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law, UNSW Sydney
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Associate Professor and Deputy Director, Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law, UNSW Law & Justice, UNSW Sydney
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Scientia Professor and Director of the Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law, UNSW Sydney
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Professor and Chair: Mental Health Nursing, University of South Australia
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Director, Centre for Refugee Studies & Associate Professor, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Canada
