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The US was a world leader in refugee resettlement. Trump stopped all that with one executive order. What does the end of refugee resettlement look like in practice?
There aren’t enough skilled workers to support Australia’s day-to-day building needs, let alone in response to disasters.
In her latest book, historian Sheila Fitzpatrick tells the story of millions of displaced people and international efforts to relocate them.
A professor of global health was in Kivu when the fighting began to rage. She recounts what she and her colleagues experienced during those days of terror.
Behavioural science explains why and how misinformation works. Understanding some of that science can empower all of us to stop its spread.
Refugees have launched shops, mobile phone charging stations – even cinemas.
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.
For almost 80 years, Palestinians in Gaza have resisted proposals to resettle elsewhere.
Watching the show, I thought of the conversations I’ve had with asylum seekers and refugees as part of my research.
Trump isn’t alone in using tariffs, travel bans and sanctions to make countries play ball on deportations. But the other side of migration diplomacy can be incentives for countries willing to take on refugees.
Bauhaus architects like Walter Gropius and Mies van der Rohe fled Nazi Germany, but not all of them went to the US.
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.
More than 6 million Syrians fled the country after it descended into civil war in 2011.
Immigration scholars break down some of the immigration terms that are likely to become common during the Trump administration’s first months.
The UN Human Rights Committee found 24 young detainees on Nauru experienced “cruel, inhumane or degrading treatment”. But are politicians listening?
The secret transfer of people from one country to another – against their will – carries great public risks.
The Syrian revolution is profoundly significant to those who suffered suffocating repression, surveillance and everyday indignities under a brutal dictator.
Refugee protections, including the right to seek asylum, exist today precisely because states failed refugees and migrants previously, especially Jewish refugees fleeing Nazi Germany.
Top contributors
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Associate Professor, School of Law, Murdoch University
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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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Professor in Human Rights and International Law, University of Newcastle
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Adjunct professor, Adelaide University
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Scientia Professor and ARC Laureate Fellow, Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law, UNSW
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Visiting professor, Harvard University
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Professor and Director, Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law, UNSW Law & Justice, UNSW
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Visiting Research Fellow at the Centre for Peace and Security, Coventry University
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Senior Research Fellow, Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law, UNSW
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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 of Law, Member of Deakin Cyber and the Centre for Law as Protection, Deakin University, Deakin University
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Senior Research Fellow, Andrew & Renata Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law, UNSW
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Professor and Chair: Mental Health Nursing, Adelaide University
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Professor of Social Economics, UTS Business School, University of Technology Sydney
