This help is often given in kind rather than in dollars and cents. Without it, these migrants might have nowhere to go and nothing to eat.
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Widespread concerns about the levels of immigration in South Africa make the issue appeal to voters across the economic and racial spectrum.
Policy-makers use language test scores to determine who gets into universities or can immigrate. But there are problems with using single test scores to make such important decisions.
Labour’s immigration plans are progressive, but could still get bogged down in red tape.
Democrats hoping that Latinos will punish the Republican Party for Trump’s immigration policies haven’t looked hard enough at the demographics, location and concerns of these 27.3 million voters.
On top of boosting South Sudan’s development, these groups are showcasing what refugees can accomplish in the US.
Sessions ignored the many gospel teaching about love, and used a passagethat has been used historically to justify all manner of immoral behavior, including imperialism, slavery, Nazism and apartheid.
Immigrant raids can cause long-term community trauma. The raids can also lead to new political alliances that reshape the meaning of community.
Simply based on how they are housed, forcibly separating immigrant kids from their families is bound to make a bad situation worse.
As a pediatrician, I’m not letting State Department warnings stop me from leading surgical missions.
Australian governments are faced with a choice: make the difficult decisions to fix planning systems so more houses can be built, or tap the brakes on Australia’s migrant intake.
Australia has had a large influx of skilled migrants in recent decades. Better educated and more highly paid than past generations of migrants, they are also creating a different sort of community.
As immigration novices, Denmark, Norway and Sweden have actively been searching for inspiration and new solutions abroad. Canada is providing some critical inspiration.
Trump touted his administration’s economic successes and laid out his immigration plan in an 80-minute speech to Congress. Our experts weigh in.
While comprehensive immigration reform may be out of reach, giving immigrants who came to the US as children citizenship not only has broad political support but makes economic sense too.
Trump’s anti-Haitian rhetoric ignores a long pattern of migration from Haiti to the U.S., often driven by American meddling in Haitian affairs. Today, the two nations are irrevocably bound by history.
In 1921 the US imposed strict immigration quotas on Australians and detained the excess arrivals in terrible conditions. Contrast this with today’s treatment of asylum seekers on Manus Island and Nauru.
Trump’s decision to end the DACA program, as well as his support for a bill that would drastically curb legal immigration, would hurt the US workers he says he’s trying to help.
Joint border security measures between the US and Mexico have created a tough situation for those who fled violence back home decades ago.
Australia’s GPI, a broad measure of national wellbeing, has stalled since 1974. So what has been the point of huge population and GDP growth since then if we and our environment are no better off?
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Professor in the Department of Economics, UCL
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Professor, Department of Politics, University of Liverpool
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Clinical Associate Professor of Law, Co-Director, USC Immigration Clinic, University of Southern California
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Professor of Law and Government, Durham University, Durham University
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Associate Professor of Social Studies Education, College of Charleston
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Senior Lecturer in Public Policy, Lancaster University
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Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of California, Merced
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Professor of Social Economics, UTS Business School, University of Technology Sydney
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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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Professor of Criminology, Lancaster University
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Professor of Macroeconomics, University of Birmingham
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Professor of Economics, University of Bristol