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The US resettlement program has long had strong bipartisan support. It is also critical to global resettlement efforts: the US takes in by far the most resettled refugees of any country.
As Donald Trump orders a temporary ban on most refugees to the US, here is what the international law says.
The 60,000 people currently stuck in Greece will probably have to stay there. The EU should help them integrate.
Many Eritreans whose asylum claims are rejected have them overturned on appeal.
Improving conditions in Turkey and Greece may convince more refugees to stay where they are.
New guidelines from Scotland’s universities association are a major step in the right direction.
There must be genuine efforts to ensure transition from uncertainty to permanent status for refugees currently detained offshore as soon as possible.
It could save the British government up to £173.6m in savings in asylum support.
Nudge, nudge. Wink, wink. Read between the lines. I am deliberately adding fuel to the anti-immigration, anti-refugee “movement”. How else can you interpret Immigration Minister Peter Dutton’s recent sustained…
Immigration Minister Peter Dutton, under fire for criticising Malcolm Fraser’s refugee policy, has sought to defend himself.
Peter Dutton’s allegations and their impacts will again demonstrate the zero-sum nature of political gamesmanship over refugees.
The Australian government’s refugee deal with the US is the first positive news in three years for asylum seekers and refugees on Nauru and Manus Island.
The Federal Government’s proposal to permanently ban asylum seekers and refugees who come to Australia by boat is in direct contravention of the Refugee Convention.
The federal government has finally unveiled its agreement for the United States to resettle refugees from Nauru and Manus Island.
Across Europe anti immigration political leaders are turning to Australia for inspiration on how to reduce the number of people seeking asylum in their countries.
The government’s message to asylum seekers is already clear: you are not welcome, and you will not be resettled in Australia. Surely that message does not need to be any harsher.
The only way the Turnbull government’s announcement of its latest move against boat people makes sense is if it is the belt-and-braces part of a wider plan to resettle refugees from Nauru and Manus Island…
It has been the absolutism embedded in Australian immigration culture of control that helps explain our hardline policy history on asylum seekers.
In a globalised world, the credibility of the birthright lottery as grounds for excluding people from protection may be diminishing.
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