Recent comments about international students in Canada significantly abusing the asylum system are misleading and obscure the context needed to understand a complex issue.
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People who enter the US as refugees or with asylum generally adapt quickly and become productive members of society. But cities need help getting them settled and employed.
Refugees play a key role in Turkish politics. Last month’s electoral shock raises the question of how – or whether – elections can change the situation for displaced people.
Each year the UK incarcerates thousands of asylum seekers in prison-like immigration detention centres.
Jordan’s foreign policy has landed the kingdom in hot water.
The case could result in further limits on the immigration minister’s powers to keep refugees in detention indefinitely.
Refugee programs in Canada have always been politicized, but more so in recent years, evidenced in discrepancies between programs for refugees from Gaza and Sudan and those from Ukraine.
A global index could hold states accountable for refugee protection.
The Palestinian enclave faces an interconnected series of crises that will amplify the human costs of conflict even when the bombing ends.
We know how to reduce homelessness and uphold our responsibilities to those seeking asylum and protection. Now all we need is the political will.
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.
The number of Rohingya trying to escape Bangladesh by boat has risen 74% since October. Increasing lawlessness in the camps is one of the major push factors.
Palestinian families in New Zealand are poised to sponsor relatives trying to flee Gaza. National-led governments have allowed such intakes in past crises – and here’s how it could work now.
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?
Camps are dynamic, culturally significant spaces. We propose the significance of these cultural practices may provide an alternative pathway to protection.
Recent moves to cut UNRWA’s funding are not the first time the UN agency has come under threat.
The US is among more than a dozen countries to freeze funding to UN agency providing aid to displaced Gazans over allegations of complicity in the Oct. 7 attack.
Your child may have classmates who have experienced potentially traumatic events fleeing their home country.
2024 is expected to be a year of elections around the world, and as often happens, anti-immigrant rhetoric is on the rise. Art can play a critical role in challenging that rhetoric.
Recent researchers, including myself, have highlighted one particular and obvious flaw in the Kindertransport scheme: that the children were separated from their parents.
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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
