Other labour migrants in New Zealand enjoy rights broadly in line with those experienced by citizens and permanent residents – ‘low-skilled’ workers should too.
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Immigration policy treats some people’s family life as less legitimate than others’.
To make a success of Canada’s immigration targets, we must all work to make communities more welcoming to newcomers.
South Africa does not put refugees in camps. So, the government is responsible for their protection and well-being. Its performance was hit-and-miss.
The policy and law applying to refugees and asylum seekers in South Africa is largely progressive. But, in practice, they continue to endure hardship and unfair treatment by officials.
Research consistently finds that immigration has little, if any, impact on the employment prospects of UK-born workers. But it doesn’t account for possible regional variations.
A scholar who has worked with asylum-seekers for a decade explains why the legal path to safety is challenging for the migrants currently traveling through Mexico.
Spanish-speaking writers have made exceptional contributions to American literature. Here are the best Latin American and Latino authors you probably haven’t heard of.
Many scholars argue that attracting migrants is essential to economic competitiveness in a globalising world.
Theresa May’s proposals for curbs on uncontrolled migration are both unimaginative and disingenuous.
When sociologists, driven by their value commitments, go beyond the relative comfort of the classroom and engage with organisations outside the university, they dirty their hands.
Zimbabwean migrants’ journey to South Africa is fraught with danger. But the emptiness of life in their country makes it imperative to risk life and limb to seek a better life across the river.
Immigration is a lightning rod in British politics, but we have to be brave and look beyond the numbers.
The political rhetoric would suggest that asylum seekers are deserving and economic migrants are undeserving. Yet their motivations overlap and are complex – forced migrants do not fit easily into one category.
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Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Delaware
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Research Fellow, Coventry University
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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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Associate Professor of Development Studies, University of Oxford
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Assistant Professor Law, Politics & Society, Drake University
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Research Associate, Southern Centre for Inequality Studies, University of the Witwatersrand, University of the Witwatersrand
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Distinguished Reserach Professor, Southern Centre for Inequality Studies, University of the Witwatersrand
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Director of Research, Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge
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PhD Candidate, Department of Sociology, Western University
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Honorary Research Associate at Institute for Democracy Citizenship and Public Policy in Africa, University of Cape Town
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Professor in the Faculty of Business & Communication Studies, Mount Royal University
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Researcher, University of Sheffield
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PhD Student, Department of Sociology, Western University
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Public Law, Stellenbosch University
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Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, University of Sheffield, University of Sheffield