A new survey is the first in Australia to look at the residency and visa status of migrant and refugee women, and the first to ask specific questions about controlling behaviour.
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How do migrants to the UK explore and experience its natural environment – and how does it connect them to their roots?
India had the legal ability to classify migrant workers as internally displaced and offer them protection, but instead they were marooned and left to the mercy of fate.
Comics about migrant experiences seek to expose personal perspectives about the global crisis of 80 million individuals and families forcibly displaced worldwide.
Climate migrants don’t fit neatly into the legal definitions of refugee or migrant, and that can leave them in limbo. The Biden administration is debating how to identify and help them.
The Canadian response to racism south of the border can be described as an Americanization of Canadian history.
The system turns employers into immigration enforcement officers and generates a population of people without status who live and work in Canada without a clear path to security of presence or livelihood.
Though not a rich country, Colombia is unusually well equipped to handle mass migration because of its own history with political strife and displacement.
Unaccompanied minors pose a humanitarian challenge for Biden, as they did for Trump and Obama. There are no quick fixes to child migration and many vexing complications, says an immigration scholar.
Misunderstanding disaster warnings can have catastrophic consequences for people who don’t speak the language used for emergency communications.
Luck and tenacity paid off for some 15,000 migrants who may now pursue their asylum cases in the US But nearly 42,000 cases filed from Mexico under a Trump-era rule were already rejected.
As governments use the pandemic as an excuse to double-down on border closures, refugees are losing vital protection
Environmentalism is, for the most part, the domain of the white middle class. We must recognise the contributions migrants already make, and how their power can be further harnessed.
The British Supreme Court ruling in favour of Uber drivers offers some hope that gig workers, many of them immigrants, might finally be given basic rights. But there’s still lots of work to do.
Many have looked to Asia for lessons on successful pandemic management. However, recent COVID-19 outbreaks in Thailand and nearby countries also offer warnings about what not to do.
How we treat migrant workers who put food on our tables: Don’t Call Me Resilient EP 4 transcript
Many migrant parents are hesitant to pass their language accent onto their children. They fear this may lead them to experience discrimination. But speaking two languages has many advantages.
For many fleeing their home countries, destinations in northern Europe were the ultimate goal. But what happened when they got there?
For these extremely vulnerable populations, the pandemic has added pressure to already strained living conditions and healing processes.
It’s other people who label somebody a migrant – and it’s a label that sticks.
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Visiting professor, Harvard University
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Associate Director, Refugee Law Lab, York University, Canada
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Associate Professor, Faculty of Arts, Design and Architecture, UNSW
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Research associate, Centre for Refugee Studies, York University, Canada
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Professor of Anthropology, The Ohio State University
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Program Director, Housing and Economic Security, Grattan Institute
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Professor, Sociology, University of Windsor
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Associate Professor of History, Carleton 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, Department of Law and Legal Studies, Carleton University
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Professor of International Politics, University of Warwick
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Postdoctoral research fellow University of Barcelona, Universitat de Barcelona
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Deputy Program Director, Migration and Labour Markets, Grattan Institute
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Associate Professor, sociology department, University of Toronto