New research on Venezuelan migrants being forced back south from the U.S.-Mexico border raises key questions about safety and security for these migrants.
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In light of the U.S. retreat from humanitarian leadership, countries like Canada must assume a more prominent role in sustaining global protection systems.
Numbers for the first quarter of 2025 show no signs of any significant uptick in Americans moving to Canada.
Last year, at least 686 migrants died trying to cross into the US from Mexico. Many had the option to call 911 but were too afraid of detection and deportation to seek help.
The overturning of almost 20 years of legal precedent allowing indefinite detention is a watershed moment. But stateless people in Australia have few rights and little say over their futures.
Here’s why the newly amended Safe Third Country Agreement will inevitably lead to more deaths for migrants in hazardous conditions in both official and non-official migration pathways.
The renegotiated Safe Third Country Agreement was politically expedient for Justin Trudeau’s government, but poses real policy and programming challenges.
Anthropological fieldwork into ‘outsourced’ asylum measures in Nauru and Guatemala reveal how they actually work - and don’t work - in practice.
People don’t give up their right to be mobile or their right to make decisions about their lives simply because they are forced to flee untenable circumstances.
The court blocked the UK from deporting asylum-seekers to Rwanda until after cases in the UK are decided.
The disparate treatment of Ukrainians compared with other refugees to Canada suggests to some an unfairness in our immigration process at best — and systemic racism at worst.
Newcomers need settlement services to learn about life in Canada. Settlement agencies need to use online channels and communicate existing online services to help newcomers before they arrive.
The European Union is once again faced with the danger of destabilization. Putin’s cyberwar on free societies using the migration crisis went well in 2015. He must not succeed now in Poland or beyond.
Canada’s temporary protection measures to Ukrainians fleeing the war ensure they’re brought to safety faster. But will this kind of response become the preferred method for all future refugees?
Bolder action is needed if the African Union and the European Union are to find common ground on migration.
Last year, 189 countries – home to roughly 65% of the global population – cut themselves off from the world at some point. Borders are now reopening and travel resuming, but normal is a ways off.
Luck and tenacity paid off for some 15,000 migrants who may now pursue their asylum cases in the US But nearly 42,000 cases filed from Mexico under a Trump-era rule were already rejected.
Trump made three anti-immigration pledges in 2016: ban Muslims, build a wall and enforce all immigration laws. Four years on, a migration scholar examines his record – and its effect on the country.
COVID-19 has created new hardships for migrants while giving the Trump administration an excuse to further restrict asylum as public attention focuses on the pandemic.
Pandemic fears could permanently harden Canadian attitudes toward immigration, and generate pressure to reduce the number of yearly arrivals.
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Director, Centre for Refugee Studies & Associate Professor, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Canada
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Associate Professor of Political Science, Emerson College
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Research associate, Centre for Refugee Studies, York University, Canada
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Assistant Professor, Human Plurality, Université de l'Ontario français
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Professor, Sociology, University of Windsor
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Associate Professor of Law, Queen's University, Ontario
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Professor of Political Economy, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University
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Professor of Geography, McMaster University
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Professor, Melbourne Law School, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of History, Tulane University
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Professor of Religious Studies, College of the Holy Cross
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Postdoctoral research fellow University of Barcelona, Universitat de Barcelona
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Associate Professor of History, Carleton University
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Global Journalism Fellow, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto
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Shirley Greenberg Chair of Women and the Legal Profession and Professor, Faculty of Law, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa