A steady retreat from a distinctive British tradition of refuge has stained policy around immigration.
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Rather than closing a loophole in a Canada-U.S. agreement that allows Canadian officials to turn back asylum-seekers from the U.S. at the border, the deal should be abolished outright.
A culture of disbelief for asylum seekers is endemic in the British immigration system.
Home Office deportation targets reduce complex human stories to statistics.
France’s new immigration bill exposes the flaw in fixating on numbers rather than people’s lives.
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees assesses the refugee claims of millions of people worldwide. It needs to be more open about what it discovers and how it makes decisions.
Since the second world war nearly every Olympic Games has seen athletes seeking asylum in the Games host country.
Why are Iraqi applicants for asylum in the UK treated so much worse than Syrians?
Legal technicalities and political priorities make it hard for North Koreans to settle on British soil.
Donald Trump wants the US to take more immigrants from ‘countries like Norway’. But how do ‘countries like Norway’ treat their own immigrants?
Inconsistencies in how judges handle appeal cases and different levels of legal provision around the country can leave asylum seekers facing a lottery.
Then as now, volunteer groups are stepping in where governments won’t.
Food is a real flashpoint in the power dynamics between asylum seekers and the people looking after them.
The proposal ignores how bad the EU is at sharing responsibility for asylum seekers.
The mass movement of people across the world is nothing new, but migration today is so global and so unrelenting that it may well be the great humanitarian issue of our time.
What the political party manifestos say about refugees and asylum seekers.
Refugees who are granted leave to remain in the UK could now be sent back to the country they fled, after five years in limbo.
Uganda has won praise for the way it treats its refugees. But now it is at breaking point.
Despite Trump’s rhetoric, Mexicans are no longer crossing the border in massive numbers. Data show a new group of migrants is arriving, and for very different reasons.
What has happened to former residents since the camp was closed in October 2016.
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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