Focus on supposed ‘loopholes’ that allow migrants to claim asylum echoes Canada’s longstanding preoccupation with how people negotiate the border.
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Trudeau’s explanation paints an incomplete picture and perpetuates misleading narratives about Canada’s immigrant selection, higher education and asylum systems.
Canberra has reinstated funding for 42 refugees and asylum seekers in the country, but given their deteriorating physical and mental health, it should be doing much more.
The sweeping new removal powers are not restricted to the non-citizens with criminal histories who feature so prominently in political speeches and media reports.
Even we were surprised at the levels of mental ill-health years after being released into the community.
Philosophers typically argue that several conditions need to be met for a duty of gratitude to hold.
Politicians increasingly frame migrants as threats to national identity, security and economic stability. This dehumanizes immigrants and creates an environment of fear and hostility for everyone.
The asylum system is stacked against asylum seekers who have fled persecution for non-religious beliefs.
The values of conservation and self-transcendence are used to express negative versus positive attitudes toward asylum seekers and may change in response to policy shifts.
People are socially conditioned to think such heinous acts are committed by outsiders.
The inability to work hinders social integration, preventing asylum seekers from interacting with locals, learning the language and understanding local customs.
The numbers of refugees and asylum seekers are rising at a time when there is growing anti-immigrant sentiment.
The onus now appears to be shifting from the migrants to smugglers who have been profiteering from this inhumane trade.
When it comes to protection for refugees on the basis of cultural heritage loss, there are very few pathways available.
The homestay — often a refugee’s first encounter with a new society — is not just about providing a roof over their heads. It’s also about ensuring safety, dignity and integration into a new country.
New tech tools are more intrusive and subtler than physical barriers. They invade migrants’ privacy and are a threat to personal security.
Biden’s executive order won’t apply to undocumented minors who enter the US alone. And the order will require the help of Mexico and other countries.
European citizens have remarkably similar preferences on asylum policy, including being strongly in favour of asylum seekers being allowed to work.
Immigration ruling in Northern Ireland is holding the UK to account on its human rights commitments.
Calls to ‘close the border’ are an uncomfortable contradiction to Brexit-era efforts to avoid a hard border at all costs.
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Deputy Director (Indo-Pacific Research) ARC Centre of Excellence for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, Griffith University
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Emeritus Professor of Sociology, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor of Criminology, Monash University
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Lecturer, Migration Law Program, Australian National University