The government has increased the cost of applying for partner visas by 25%. It’s a system that ensures migration revenue while worsening the burden on couples.
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As Canada advances its national AI strategy, we must ask what digital migration data reveal, and what they leave unseen.
Florida’s population boom has fizzled to just 0.9% growth as domestic migration slows to a trickle.
Pope Leo is following in his predecessor’s footsteps by placing migrants in the focus of his pontificate.
Birds that migrate longer distances are the ones having the most trouble keeping up with climate change.
This behaviour is unique, rather perplexing and not reported in other large whales.
Relocating trees to protect forests struggling with climate change seems promising, but the extreme complexity of ecosystems poses challenges.
No one can seem to agree what the level of migration to Australia should be. This is partially because governments don’t really make careful, considered plans.
As long as the debate stays politicised, anti-immigration sentiment will persist, and so will support for the parties that trade on it.
With a population of just 500,000 people spread across ten islands, Cape Verde is used to defying the odds.
The social and economic threats caused by insufficient migration levels are not usually part of political conversations about immigration.
Think it’s easy to get a visa to Australia? Or that migrants get government benefits? Think again.
History shows immigration policy in Australia is full of yes-no contradictions: fear jostling with hope, exclusion with openness.
Artists are attempting to make the lives of forced migrants easier to relate to through the creation of video games.
Amid the fierce political debate about figures and systems, it’s easy to lose sight of the purpose of migration, to governments, individuals and society as a whole.
Global warming is moving faster than the policy decisions that could protect vulnerable populations.
The drop in funding has also led donors to prioritize the trend of using aid to control the movement of people – over their needs.
The only interventions capable of disrupting xenophobia are those that lower, or ideally eliminate, its political, economic and social benefits.
Australia’s migration debate is typically framed in terms of how much to cut. But there is a smarter way to screen migrants than our current outdated system.
Kenya’s new refugee policy seeks to shift away from a camp-based system to one centred on inclusion into the local economy.
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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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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Senior researcher, Arnold Bergstraesser Institute
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Senior Research Fellow New South Institute, Emeritus Professor at The Nelson Mandela School of Public Governance, University of Cape Town
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Emeritus Professor of Sociology, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor of International Politics, University of Warwick
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Visiting Research Fellow at the Centre for Peace and Security, Coventry University
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Assistant Professor of Human Rights and Cultural Relations, American University School of International Service
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Professor and Director, Mitchell Institute, Victoria University
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Policy Leader Fellow, School of Transnational Governance, European University Institute
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Professor of Social Economics, UTS Business School, University of Technology Sydney
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Adjunct professor, Adelaide University
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Program Director, Housing and Economic Security, Grattan Institute
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Honorary Professor of International Relations, University of the Witwatersrand
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Associate Professor, Institute for Culture and Society & School of Humanities and Communication Arts, Western Sydney University
