New research reveals how the visa someone arrives on shapes whether their first ten years are secure or spent in poverty.
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Stateless people can struggle to access the most basic human rights many of us take for granted such as education, health care, the ability to work and move freely.
The US is not alone in its attempts to send asylum seekers to countries in Africa.
The non-citizens in the NZYQ group cannot be returned to their country of origin. But sending them to Nauru just pushes the issue onto a poorer country.
The rush for ‘climate visas’ to escape Tuvalu shows the extraordinary need for schemes that enable people to migrate in a warmer world.
Addressing key barriers to refugees accessing mental health services is in everyone’s best interest.
The legal and policy tools to fix this already exist.
These amnesties occurred under successive Labor and Liberal federal governments, and each enjoyed enthusiastic bipartisan support.
Overall, Australia needs a fundamental shift that recognises fairness contributes to, rather than detracts from efficiency.
The Australia–Tuvalu Falepili Union, as it is known, is the world’s first bilateral agreement to create a special visa like this in the context of climate change.
There aren’t enough skilled workers to support Australia’s day-to-day building needs, let alone in response to disasters.
Behavioural science explains why and how misinformation works. Understanding some of that science can empower all of us to stop its spread.
One concern is the precedent this agreement with Nauru sets for how other countries may treat refugees with criminal convictions.
We don’t need to reinvent the wheel and can dispense with unhelpful terms like ‘climate refugee’. Existing laws, applied correctly, can protect people.
Refugees at risk now face longer wait times to come to Canada, and for those already here, longer periods of separation from family members abroad who remain in danger.
Countries could face major legal consequences if they send people to countries where they could suffer harm.
The government has failed in its attempt to ram unprecedented changes to the migration act through parliament. The laws, now being reviewed by a senate committee, could be disastrous.
With the arrival of 39 foreign nationals in Western Australia, debate around boat arrivals has been re-ignited. What happens if you come by plane instead?
With the expiration of a pandemic-era restriction, the Biden administration is set to impose a new rule to curtail immigration at the US-Mexico border.
It’s not just Ukrainians. In 2021, nearly 90 million people were forced to flee their homes.
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Lecturer and Senior Research Fellow at the South African Research Chair in International Law (SARCIL), University of Johannesburg
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Associate Professor, School of Law, Murdoch University
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Scientia Professor and ARC Laureate Fellow, Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law, UNSW
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Professor and Director, Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law, UNSW Law & Justice, UNSW
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Senior Research Fellow, Andrew & Renata Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law, UNSW
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Lecturer, School of Law & Criminology, Murdoch University
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Professor of Hispanic, Cultural and Migration Studies, Queen Mary University of London
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Professor of International Law, University of California College of the Law, San Francisco
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Research Fellow, Development Policy Centre, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Research Associate Professor at the Virginia Modeling, Analysis and Simulation Center, Old Dominion University
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Lecturer/Assistant Professor, School Of Law, University College Dublin
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Adjunct professor, La Trobe University
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Professor and Chair: Mental Health Nursing, Adelaide University
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Postdoctoral Fellow, Human Geography, University of Toronto
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Professor of Transnational Studies and Marketing & Director of Regent's Centre for Transnational Studies, Regent's University London