The federal government built an explicit “study-work-stay” pathway that it’s now unraveling through abrupt, poorly-sequenced policy changes.
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Birthright citizenship has become a point of debate as some governments adopt more restrictive policies aimed at limiting access to citizenship for some migrants.
From a synagogue’s 5K to Appalachia’s Hillbilly Days, shared celebrations pull strangers together.
Pointing to the citizenship clause of the 14th Amendment, the high court ruled that all babies born in the United States ‘are citizens by birth.’
Can a short multiple-choice test encourage new citizens to connect with a sense of national identity, or does it risk oversimplifying complex, contested ideas?
The US Supreme Court will soon rule on Donald Trump’s attempt to end automatic citizenship rights for people born in the US. It’s not a clear-cut issue in NZ either.
New proposals would introduce a 10-year ‘baseline’ for settlement, with refugees and benefits claimants facing the highest wait times.
Families, chiefs or document brokers remain crucial to help people get a legal identity.
Grand juries, historically rubber stamps for prosecutors’ attempts to indict, are rejecting the Trump administration’s moves to indict the president’s perceived enemies. That’s unprecedented.
South Africa is driving a radical reform of the way it manages immigration, citizenship and refugees.
When officials lie time and again, people don’t know what to trust. And when this happens, citizens cannot deliberate, approve or dissent coherently, because a shared world no longer exists.
Advocates for each side will provide a different explanation for who falls under ‘the jurisdiction’ of the United States.
Citizenship as reparation must not translate into citizenship as entitlement.
Immigration to Australia has surged since the COVID pandemic. But our research shows only about one in five become citizens within seven years.
Current citizenship laws have a narrow concept of nationhood and fail to acknowledge Indigenous ways of understanding belonging, identity and place.
The home secretary has the power to remove a person’s British citizenship if they consider it ‘conducive to the public good’.
Accepting former Boko Haram fighters back into Nigerian society is a tough task.
In this hierarchical system, migrants are kept on extended probation and judged by standards never applied to British nationals.
High school sports associations want to mold better students and citizens through sport, but are coaches well equipped to deliver on that front?
Just 2½ hours of online instruction made students a lot better at identifying misinformation on YouTube and TikTok.
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Senior Research Associate, Andrew & Renata Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law, UNSW Law School, UNSW
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Senior Lecturer, Sydney Law School, University of Sydney
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Vice-Chancellor and President, University of Canberra
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Senior Lecturer in Law, The Open University
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Professor of Law and Government, Durham University, Durham University
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Lecturer in Caribbean History & Politics, Institute of Historical Research, University of London, School of Advanced Study, University of London
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Associate Professor in Politics and International Relations, School of Social Sciences, Monash University
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Professor of Law, UNSW Law School, UNSW
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Professor Emerita, Sydney Law School, University of Sydney
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Vice-Chancellor and President, Australian Catholic University
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Senior Advisor ( Research and Communications), Australian Catholic University
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Professor of International Law and Director, Sydney Centre for International Law, University of Sydney
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Reader in Law at The City Law School, City St George's, University of London