On this World Children’s Day, we need to critically assess how Canada’s doing helping young refugees settle into their new homes and their new lives.
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A scholar who has worked with asylum-seekers for a decade explains why the legal path to safety is challenging for the migrants currently traveling through Mexico.
Trump has called Venezuela a ‘human tragedy’ and threatened invasion while quietly deporting and denying asylum to Venezuelan refugees. His anti-socialist rhetoric may make for good midterm politics.
In the mid-1980s Germany was wracked by a toxic ‘Asyldebatte’ that bears similarities to what’s happening today.
Canada’s opposition Conservatives are borrowing from European populists in stoking fears about asylum-seekers and migrants. Here’s why that’s so dangerous.
The young activist acted morally and intelligently when staging her protest against the deportation of asylum seekers from Sweden.
Even when federal contractors stir public outrage, the government probably should be under fire.
This tradition is so strong in the US that all lawyers are encouraged to volunteer at least 50 hours of pro bono service per year.
The U.S. immigration detention system under Donald Trump is abusive, racist, sexist and haphazardly implemented, all designed to terrorize people attempting to exercise their right to seek asylum.
Newly proposed ‘controlled centres’ in the EU must not breach migrants’ human rights.
It is important that consideration is given to the role played by individuals working within departments, not just the government.
Staying in a violent home country can be lethally dangerous – but thanks to European governments, sending family abroad is far from a guaranteed escape.
The EU has agreed to explore proposals for centres to process people before they can cross the Mediterranean.
Trump’s executive order to end family separations at the border is too little too late, a human rights expert writes. Indefinitely detaining immigrants is breaking the law.
Undocumented entries across the border are at all-time lows. The people now arriving are not Mexican workers, but a smaller number of Central American families seeking to escape dire circumstances.
Donald Trump’s policy to separate children from their migrant parents lays bare his fascism. The time has come for Americans to resist this act of domestic terrorism.
Trump hopes migrants won’t come if they know their children will be taken away. That grim logic ignores the inescapable dangers that drive thousands of Central Americans to flee their homes each year.
International law recognizes that women and LGBTQ people face unique forms of violence that may qualify them for asylum. The US now asserts that domestic abuse is a ‘private’ matter.
Trump’s anti-immigrant policies are leading more Central Americans to stay put in Mexico. Mexico’s presidential candidates have a lot to say about that, and none of it involves mass deportations.
A recent decision by the United States to deny asylum for victims of domestic abuse will have unintended consequences for Canada.
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Clinical Associate Professor of Law, Co-Director, USC Immigration Clinic, University of Southern California
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Director, Centre for Refugee Studies & Associate Professor, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Canada
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Lecturer in law, University of Sussex
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Professor of Criminology, Lancaster University
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Senior researcher, Arnold Bergstraesser Institute
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Professor, and Director, Center for Latin American and Latino Studies, American University; Institute for Humane Studies
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Henry J. Leir Chair in Global Migration, Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy, Tufts University
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Scientia Professor and ARC Laureate Fellow, Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law, UNSW
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Associate Professor, School of Law, Murdoch University
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Professor in International Politics, Glasgow Caledonian University
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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 associate, Centre for Refugee Studies, York University, Canada
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Lecturer and Clinical Instructor of Law; Associate Director of the Immigrants’ Rights and Human Trafficking Clinic, Boston University
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Professor of International Law, University of California College of the Law, San Francisco
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Professor of Public Interest Law and Chicana/o Studies, University of California, Davis