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On World Refugee Day, we call on the Canadian government to end the bureaucratic limbo causing family separation
In 1987, researchers lamented how schools were organised ‘around the assumption that the nuclear family is the norm’. New research suggests very little has changed.
Brenda Matthews’ story is a truth-seeking quest to right the wrongs perpetrated by a government hell-bent on doing ‘as they saw fit’ when it came to Aboriginal peoples, writes Sandra Phillips.
We should celebrate that this bill is passing through parliament. But there are 2 key concerns.
Policies and programs to address war-induced displacement in Ukraine must explicitly take into account the rights of children, including the best interests of the child.
When a child loses mom or dad to deportation, the harm can be severe and lasting. New immigration bills in the House and Senate seek to avoid family separation and allow deported parents back home.
What happens over the next four years in Joe Biden/Kamala Harris administration could have a lasting impact on how childhood is understood and experienced in the United States and beyond.
A new report on Mexicans in the US paints a troubling picture about the treatment of the country’s largest immigrant group.
Families in the 21st century have changed, making it necessary to rethink what has been “traditional” ways of sharing the custody of children.
This tradition is so strong in the US that all lawyers are encouraged to volunteer at least 50 hours of pro bono service per year.
The U.S. immigration detention system under Donald Trump is abusive, racist, sexist and haphazardly implemented, all designed to terrorize people attempting to exercise their right to seek asylum.
Mexico elects a new president on July 1. Frontrunner Andrés Manuel López Obrador says Trump’s immigration policy is ‘arrogant, racist and inhuman’ and that he won’t do the US’s ‘dirty work’ anymore.
The power of the mainstream media to put pressure US government policy should not be underrated.
While the UK does not indefinitely detain children, there are cases where minors are held – and in extreme cases, separated from their parents.
A researcher takes a closer look at the millions of unauthorized workers who play an essential role in the U.S. economy – and why they matter.
United’s CEO called the Trump policy ‘in deep conflict’ with his company’s values, the latest example of a corporate leader speaking out on a political issue, something almost unheard of a few decades ago.
The scale and brutality of Trump’s family separation policy was like nothing that has gone before.
Trump hopes migrants won’t come if they know their children will be taken away. That grim logic ignores the inescapable dangers that drive thousands of Central Americans to flee their homes each year.
The US attorney general cited Paul’s letter to the Romans to justify the Trump administration family separation policy. Here’s why that’s a misreading of the Bible.
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