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The Canadian government’s announcement of the expansion of border security and surveillance measures could place more asylum seekers at risk.
The 2025 Immigration Plan aims to cut the numbers of temporary migrants in Canada from 6.5 per cent to five per cent of the population. Instead, it will boost the number of non-status people.
Fluctuating rates of illegal migration to the US over the past few decades show that the government’s approach of trying to stop migrants with more security has not worked.
Refugee protections, including the right to seek asylum, exist today precisely because states failed refugees and migrants previously, especially Jewish refugees fleeing Nazi Germany.
The U.S. congressman from East Harlem promoted compassion in a district marked by ethnic, racial and class differences. It’s a story worth remembering in today’s divided America.
Focus on supposed ‘loopholes’ that allow migrants to claim asylum echoes Canada’s longstanding preoccupation with how people negotiate the border.
The Danish government wants to end so-called parallel societies. But residents of immigrant-majority areas say they’re subject to a racial double standard.
Our new analysis shows that studies consistently find no causal link between immigration and increased crime across a variety of countries.
Many migrants, including those in the NT, experience financial, social and emotional pressures. These sometimes lead them to gambling as a means of socialisation or stress relief.
Waste management reforms in Turkey are excluding the country’s informal litter pickers from the sector.
Despite some incubator programmes tailored for entrepreneurs, Europe is lagging behind in areas such as language teaching.
The city of Denver has passed a new program that gives migrants resources as they wait six months for a work permit.
Politicians increasingly frame migrants as threats to national identity, security and economic stability. This dehumanizes immigrants and creates an environment of fear and hostility for everyone.
Some Muslim patients have to choose between treatments that violate their religious beliefs, or forgoing parenthood altogether.
Migrant mothers face multiple barriers to accessing healthcare in New Zealand. New research highlights the difficulties they face, in their own words.
Whereas Kafka’s Samsa famously wakes up to discover he has been transformed into a bug, the insect evolution of Hage’s unnamed migrant protagonist happens slowly through his circumstances.
Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada must expedite all pending permanent residence applications for migrant care workers to ensure timely family reunification for these essential workers.
Michigan’s migrant farmworkers are the backbone of the country’s second-most diverse agricultural economy. Social and labor protections for them fall short.
Women who have moved to Australia, particularly from traumatic settings, are particularly at risk of gendered violence. Here’s what our research found helps them to speak up.
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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