A migrant caravan of almost 7,000 people who left Guatemala and Honduras is heading north towards the United States. The reasons they are leaving are complex but involve a U.S.-backed violent history.
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Most hand car wash workers are subject to some form of labour exploitation, says new report
Nicaraguan migrants send over US$1 billion home each year. This money has played a changing role in domestic politics – first boosting the Ortega regime and, now, sustaining the uprising against him.
A new refugee mapping project has revealed an alternative image of Europe as a space that is being shaped by migrants and their struggle.
Torture is such a profound tear in the fabric that makes us human that it can distort even the most fundamental elements of social existence.
Up to 5,000 refugees flee hunger and chaos in Venezuela each day – a migrant crisis rivaling Syria’s. Most arrive to poor South American border cities that are dangerously unprepared for the influx.
Psychotropic medication is ‘pharmaceutical violence’ against migrant children and other incarcerated youth throughout the United States. Drug addiction is one consequence.
Free trade requires not just the free movement of goods, but of people too. If Donald Trump really wants the U.S. to have a competitive advantage, he should be encouraging more, not fewer, migrants.
Little thought has been accorded to the way in which political and bureaucratic actors prioritise certain lives over others in their (non) decision-making.
Gibraltar’s decision to terminate permission for the Aquarius to conduct operations in the Mediterranean is the latest example of national politics undermining rescue at sea.
Fleeing economic collapse, around 2.3 million Venezuelans have left the country over the past few years.
In Texas’ Lower Rio Grande Valley, Border Patrol agents must ignore blistering heat and 25 mile-an-hour winds. Their job is simple: Catch terrorists, people without papers or those carrying drugs.
Migrants have similar home ownership rates to the overall population and rely less on public housing. But housing supply shortfalls and higher prices have reduced ownership among recent migrants.
Newly proposed ‘controlled centres’ in the EU must not breach migrants’ human rights.
Staying in a violent home country can be lethally dangerous – but thanks to European governments, sending family abroad is far from a guaranteed escape.
The president says immigration is bad for the US economy. Economists disagree.
The EU has agreed to explore proposals for centres to process people before they can cross the Mediterranean.
Trump’s executive order to end family separations at the border is too little too late, a human rights expert writes. Indefinitely detaining immigrants is breaking the law.
U.S. President Donald Trump may believe he’s contained the political damage of his policy to separate migrant children from their parents. But the psychological damage to children has only just begun.
Immigration turmoil in the U.S. means Canada must craft its own migration management plans – to help Central Americans fleeing misery in their homelands, some of it with Canadian involvement.
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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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Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations, Coventry University
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Deputy Program Director, Migration and Labour Markets, Grattan Institute
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Associate Professor, sociology department, University of Toronto