Recent history shows politicians should think twice before using refugees and asylum seekers for electoral gain.
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Forty years ago, the Canadian government applied its new program for private sponsorship of refugees allowing Canada to welcome the largest number of Southeast Asian refugees in the world.
The 2001 federal election was a watershed moment for Australian national security that has set a policy agenda for almost two decades.
The term ‘genuine refugee’ is thrown around often, yet few know the complicated process of how someone is deemed to be one.
Seeking asylum from persecution is a right and people who do so are not “illegals” under the law. Yet refugees are portrayed in negative and threatening terms in Australia, while positive stories are ignored.
Sarah Hanson-Young
Michelle Grattan talks to Greens Senator Sarah Hanson-Young about personal attacks on her, paying people smugglers to turn their boat around, gay marriage, and much more.
ASEAN stood on the sidelines as thousands of refugees were stranded at sea, but it should apply its policy of constructive engagement to ending the persecution that drives Rohingya people out of Myanmar.
Under enormous pressure, countries in south east Asia are at last offering help to thousands of stranded migrants – but their gesture is far less meaningful than it seems.
Australia may have ‘stopped the boats’ but the tragedy of people drowning at sea continues to our north and is getting worse. A regional solution to the refugee crisis is urgently needed.
The EU has pledged to triple money to the search-and-rescue mission in the Mediterranean. But simply throwing money at the problem won’t work.
Post-independence Eritrea has descended into poverty and repression forcing huge numbers to flee to safety and a better life.
It’s absurd that Europe continues to blame migrants seeking a better life for their own fate.
Political leaders have a ready culprit in people smugglers for drownings at sea. The problem is that this ignores responsibility for eliminating all other options for these people to avoid harm.
It remains to be seen whether the EU’s narrow approach can prevent further deaths in the Mediterranean.
This is not about people smuggling, it’s about a displacement crisis of unprecedented proportions.
Thanks to a lack of joined-up policy on refugees, the Mediterranean has become the world’s most dangerous migrant destination.
Mass migration from outside the EU has proved too hard a problem for the community to handle.
The current situation in which thousands are dying is untenable. Here are some ideas.
There appears to be little chance of a negotiated solution to the chaos tearing the country apart.
Whether they are migrants or refugees, people are needlessly dying by the boatload.
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Senior Lecturer, Department of Social and Policy Sciences, University of Bath
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Emeritus professor, Monash University
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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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Adjunct Professor of Criminology, University of Canberra
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Adjunct Associate Professor, Australian Demographic and Social Research Institute, Australian National University
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Professor of World Politics, SOAS, University of London
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Scientia Professor and ARC Laureate Fellow, Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law, UNSW
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Professor of Politics, University of Birmingham
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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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Adjunct Professor, Australian Catholic University
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Senior Lecturer, School of Social Sciences, UNSW
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Adjunct professor, Adelaide University
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Emeritus Professor of Politics and Vice-Chancellor's Fellow, La Trobe University
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Director Centre for European Research and Senior Lecturer, School of Politics and International Relations, Queen Mary University of London
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Professor of Political Communication; Director CAJ, The University of Melbourne