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The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees assesses the refugee claims of millions of people worldwide. It needs to be more open about what it discovers and how it makes decisions.
Since the second world war nearly every Olympic Games has seen athletes seeking asylum in the Games host country.
Why are Iraqi applicants for asylum in the UK treated so much worse than Syrians?
Legal technicalities and political priorities make it hard for North Koreans to settle on British soil.
Donald Trump wants the US to take more immigrants from ‘countries like Norway’. But how do ‘countries like Norway’ treat their own immigrants?
Inconsistencies in how judges handle appeal cases and different levels of legal provision around the country can leave asylum seekers facing a lottery.
Then as now, volunteer groups are stepping in where governments won’t.
Food is a real flashpoint in the power dynamics between asylum seekers and the people looking after them.
The proposal ignores how bad the EU is at sharing responsibility for asylum seekers.
The mass movement of people across the world is nothing new, but migration today is so global and so unrelenting that it may well be the great humanitarian issue of our time.
What the political party manifestos say about refugees and asylum seekers.
Refugees who are granted leave to remain in the UK could now be sent back to the country they fled, after five years in limbo.
Uganda has won praise for the way it treats its refugees. But now it is at breaking point.
Despite Trump’s rhetoric, Mexicans are no longer crossing the border in massive numbers. Data show a new group of migrants is arriving, and for very different reasons.
What has happened to former residents since the camp was closed in October 2016.
A short history of legal challenges to immigrant detention practices in the U.S. may shed light on what’s to come for the new administration.
Many Eritreans whose asylum claims are rejected have them overturned on appeal.
It could save the British government up to £173.6m in savings in asylum support.
On Q&A, panellists duelled over the numbers of migrants Australia takes a year. Is it 200,000 or 800,000? How many permanent and how many temporary? Let’s check the facts.
Top contributors
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Clinical Associate Professor of Law, Co-Director, USC Immigration Clinic, University of Southern California
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Director, Centre for Refugee Studies & Associate Professor, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Canada
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Lecturer in law, University of Sussex
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Professor of Criminology, Lancaster University
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Research associate, Centre for Refugee Studies, York University, Canada
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Lecturer and Clinical Instructor of Law; Associate Director of the Immigrants’ Rights and Human Trafficking Clinic, Boston University
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Professor of International Law, University of California College of the Law, San Francisco
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Senior Lecturer in Human Rights, Constitutional Law and Legal Theory, University of Wollongong
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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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Deputy Director (Indo-Pacific Research) ARC Centre of Excellence for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, Griffith University
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Dean and Professor of Public Interest Law and Chicana/o Studies, University of California, Davis
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Professor in International Politics, Glasgow Caledonian University
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Associate Professor, School of Law, Murdoch University
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Associate Professor of Sociology, American University
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Professor, Public and International Affairs, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa
