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The war in Syria that began in 2011 sparked mass migration to neighbouring Turkey. In this photo, Syrians work in their bakery shop in Istanbul’s working-class district of Kucukcekmece on July 5, 2019. Bulent Kilic/AFP

Syrian forced migrants in Turkey have built businesses despite challenges. Here’s what has helped them succeed

Research into these entrepreneurs may carry lessons for societies and governments around the world.
Residents of Tulsa, Oklahoma, demonstrate for women’s rights in 2018 in front of the Woody Guthrie Centre, which features a mural depicting the folksinger, a native of the state, playing his iconic guitar emblazoned with the slogan “This Machine Kills Fascists”, below the title of his most famous song, “This Land is Your Land”. Vineyard Perspective/Shutterstock

The troubling relevance of Woody Guthrie’s new album, released 58 years after his death

In his lyrics, the folksinger and herald of US postwar social struggles described his era. In some ways, it resembles our own.
The American ambassador to Canada recently mused about ending pre-clearance arrangements in Canadian airports for people travelling to the United States. Would that be such a bad thing in terms of Canadian civil rights and sovereignty? (Andrej Lisakov/Unsplash)

Is the end looming for Canada’s border pre‑clearance program with the United States?

No matter how convenient and efficient pre-clearance programs might be, they raise challenging questions about Canadian sovereignty and the rights of Canadian citizens.
A boat used by migrants to cross the Mediterranean Sea is towed from Tripiti beach to the Karave the port of Gavdos, Greece, in July 2025 after hundreds were rescued near the island and the island of Crete in separate incidents. (AP Photo/Elena Becatoros)

The Mediterranean: Both a graveyard and a bottomless money pit due to EU border policies

Deaths at sea, violence against migrants and government investment are all increasing along the EU’s maritime borders.
A migrant looks out the window on a bus on her way north to Nicaragua and the Mexico-U.S. border, in Paso Canoas, Costa Rica, in 2023. Grassroots organizations that help migrants in countries in Costa Rica have been significantly affected by American cuts to humanitarian aid in 2025. (AP Photo/Carlos Gonzalez)

How international aid cuts are eroding refugee protections in the Global South

In light of the U.S. retreat from humanitarian leadership, countries like Canada must assume a more prominent role in sustaining global protection systems.
Despite the benefits migrant grandparents provide, sponsored grandparents are consistently suspected of taking advantage of Canada’s health care and social welfare systems. (Jonathan Castaneda/Unsplash)

Here’s why Canada’s parents and grandparents reunification program is problematic

International conventions dictate that families have a right to be together. But Canada’s current parent and grandparent reunification program makes that difficult.
EU countries typically provide irregular migrants with a small set of legal rights. In this photo, protesters demonstrate to support regularisation of undocumented immigrants (les sans-papiers) on June 20, 2020, in Paris, France. Alain Jocard/AFP

Irregular migrants in Europe face obstacles to exercising legal rights – where they have them

There are various social and labour rights for irregular migrants in the different EU member states and the UK. But the costs of enjoying these rights can be daunting.
An Iraqi-Kurdish woman in Darbandikhan, northern Iraq, mourns Kazhal Ahmed Khidir Al-Jammoor and her three children, Hadiya, Mubin and Hasti Rizghar Hussein, who were among those who drowned in the English Channel on November 24 2021. Stringer/EPA

‘We were treated like animals’: the full story of Britain’s deadliest small boat disaster

The recent Cranston Inquiry has shed light on the rescue operation that failed to prevent the deaths of at least 30 people in the Channel.
U.S. President Donald Trump and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem tour ‘Alligator Alcatraz,’ a new migrant detention facility at Dade-Collier Training and Transition facility, on July 1, 2025, in Ochopee, Fla. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

‘Alligator Alcatraz’ showcases Donald Trump’s penchant for visual cruelty

‘Alligator Alcatraz’ is visual policy aimed to stage terror as a message while making Donald Trump’s authoritarian and fascist politics a material reality.

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