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Australia’s track record on racial equality and tackling racism is under review – and the findings will have significant implications.
Israel is deporting thousands of Eritrean asylum seekers to Rwanda, while in the US, many face being sent back to the country they fled.
Walking, gardening and cycling can all help relieve anxiety and help asylum seekers become a part of the local community.
In 1921 the US imposed strict immigration quotas on Australians and detained the excess arrivals in terrible conditions. Contrast this with today’s treatment of asylum seekers on Manus Island and Nauru.
There are about 400-600 people in the now-defunct regional processing centre refusing to move to recently built transit centres in Lorengau – but these numbers shift daily.
It is becoming harder and harder to access legal aid for immigration cases.
Michelle Grattan speaks with Deep Saini about the week in Australian politics.
Young people need help to overcome discrimination, stigmatisation and isolation.
The longer humanitarian migrants stay in Australia, the more likely it is that they will get a job.
On Tuesday, the Australian government will close the Manus Island regional processing centre in Papua New Guinea. Arguing that they have no safe place to go, nearly all 742 remaining residents are refusing…
Interviews undertaken in refugee camps on the Bangladesh/Myanmar border paint a grim picture that explains why so many Rohingya fled Myanmar so quickly.
Food is a real flashpoint in the power dynamics between asylum seekers and the people looking after them.
Australia’s Human Rights Council election provides an ideal opportunity for it to show leadership and commitment on issues such as refugee flows and the death penalty.
A possible risk from Peter Dutton’s outburst is if his remarks carry any impact in the US.
About 50 refugees from Nauru and Manus Island will leave in the next week to ten days for resettlement in the US.
Like Australia and the US before it, Europe is now flirting with the idea of processing centres for refugees in transit countries.
Indonesia’s decree on refugees honours a customary international law obligation of non-refoulement, or not expelling or returning refugees.
BBC Panorama has exposed violence and abuse of detainees at Brook House immigration removal centre.
Police used water cannons and tear gas to remove a group of migrants and refugees from a square in Rome in August.
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Adjunct professor, University of Adelaide
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Associate Professor, School of Law, Murdoch University
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Lecturer, Western Sydney University
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Associate Professor in Human Rights and International Law, University of Newcastle
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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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Associate Professor of Law, Deakin Law School, Deakin University
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Associate Professor, Law School, La Trobe University
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Emeritus Professor of Sociology, University of Technology Sydney
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Senior Research Fellow, Andrew & Renata Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law, UNSW Sydney
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Lecturer, Migration Law Program, Australian National University
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