Mutual suspicion and prejudice continue to undermine relations between South Africans and African immigrants.
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School choice heavily influences immigrant students’ experiences in Charleston schools and can leave them in segregated academic environments, new findings show.
Immigrant entrepreneurs report frustration and disappointment over the lack of business support setting up in New Zealand. Any new visa scheme must account for this.
When the skills of new immigrants exceed the demands of their jobs, organizations may risk losing valued employees.
Announcing ambitious education policy goals is easier than ensuring institutions, employers and educators have the resources necessary to achieve them.
The economic and social conditions in which anti-migrant sentiment has exploded in South Africa include high joblessness and a collapse of government services.
In many cases, a single, shocking crime allegedly involving a foreign-born suspect was quickly reframed into a broader indictment of minorities.
A statewide survey finds majorities in farm country at odds with the deportation push reshaping their workforce.
Federal protections promise a fair trial in a language you understand, but for millions who speak lesser-known languages, courts can’t keep that promise.
Several key actions that could help are not yet on the table, including mobilising other political parties as well as civic society to fight anti-foreigner hysteria.
White Americans who watch Fox News are more likely to agree that shadowy political elites are embracing permissive immigration policies to replace native-born white Americans.
A persistent government strategy to sow fear through punitive measures has corroded freedom and democracy.
Pennsylvania’s patchwork of ICE detention centers makes it difficult to track loved ones.
A new research project gives migrants a voice so that they can tell their own stories, beyond the statistics.
The Trump administration’s immigration detention policies appear to be, in part, inspired by the heavy-handed tactics of the former Arizona sheriff.
Distance does not necessarily protect immigrants from wars happening abroad. Instead, global connectivity embeds the stress and strain of these conflict zones in their daily lives.
Canada’s cybersecurity labour shortage cannot be solved simply by recruiting skilled immigrants, because systemic barriers — especially for racialized immigrant women — limit their integration, advancement and retention.
A historian explores how religious congregations, activists and city officials have supported undocumented immigrants in Philadelphia over the past 40 years.
Accompaniment, rooted in modern Catholic social thought, calls for putting the needs of the most vulnerable first.
U.S. tariffs disrupted Canada’s manufacturing sector in 2025, but their labour-market effects didn’t impact immigrant and Canadian-born workers the same.
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Professor of Public Interest Law and Chicana/o Studies, University of California, Davis
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Visiting professor, Harvard University
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Director, Centre for Refugee Studies & Associate Professor, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Canada
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Associate Professor of International Business, University of Victoria
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PhD candidate, Centre for Comparative Literature, University of Toronto
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Canada Excellence Research Chair in Migration and Integration, Toronto Metropolitan University
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Research associate, Centre for Refugee Studies, York University, Canada
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Professor of Sociology and Chair, University of Colorado Boulder
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Professor of Economics, University of Michigan
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Professor of political socialization, Department of Education, Practice and Society, UCL Institute of Education, UCL
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John Rennie Short is a Friend of The Conversation.
Professor Emeritus of Public Policy, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
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Professor of Religious Studies, College of the Holy Cross
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Assistant Professor, Research Methods, School of Social Sciences, Heriot-Watt University
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Associate Professor, Institute for Culture and Society & School of Humanities and Communication Arts, Western Sydney University
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Assistant Professor of Economics, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute