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Albanese's speech comes against a background of speculation that Bill Shorten's leadership could be under pressure if the party performs badly at the Super Saturday byelections.
Social media can act as the engine room for public engagement with refugees, allowing people to move beyond 'I should do something' to 'I will take action'.
Refugee women's voices are often left out of resettlement policy. A participatory research method called photovoice helps uncover resettlement issues from their perspectives.
Donald Trump's policy to separate children from their migrant parents lays bare his fascism. The time has come for Americans to resist this act of domestic terrorism.
You might be familiar with turbulence as you experience it on a plane, or as scholars describe combustible forces of social change. But understanding how it operates is far more complex.
Is the impact of refugees in the host country's economy positive or negative? The real question is really quite different: can the economy really do without refugees?
Asylum-seeking and refugee women have been channelling the current surge in global feminist activism to make their voices heard.
Many Canadians have volunteered to help newcomers adjust to society. This board game was developed to help these volunteers understand what it feels like to enter a new country and build a new life.
Wider access to technology has increased possibilities to share stories via digital means.
International law recognizes that women and LGBTQ people face unique forms of violence that may qualify them for asylum. The US now asserts that domestic abuse is a 'private' matter.
Trump's anti-immigrant policies are leading more Central Americans to stay put in Mexico. Mexico's presidential candidates have a lot to say about that, and none of it involves mass deportations.
Laden with 629 people, the Aquarius is heading for Spain after docking was refused in Italy and Malta. Here are four other infamous refugee boats from the 20th century.
The transition into adulthood is challenging for young refugees: they face great adversity while trying to finishing school, find work and enter marriage.
The Safe Third Country Agreement between the United States and Canada was originally intended to deal with refugees seeking asylum. But recent U.S. developments mean the agreement's days are numbered
Spain has agreed to allow the Aquarius, a boat carrying 629 migrants, to dock in Valencia. But the EU remains gridlocked over asylum rules.
Countries have some flexibility in interpreting UN agreements on refugee rights. But Sessions' decision that abused women don't qualify for asylum in the US is an extraordinarily severe ruling.
A scholar who visited Rohingya camps in Myanmar found little hope of a safe return home for refugees, who are currently living in camps in neighboring Bangladesh.
A steady retreat from a distinctive British tradition of refuge has stained policy around immigration.
In the seven years since civil war erupted in Syria, refugees have fled the violence and destruction. But starting over in a new country after such experiences is much harder than it may seem.
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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Senior Lecturer in International Law and Human Rights, University of Newcastle
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Director of the Public Law and Policy Research Unit, Adelaide Law School, University of Adelaide
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Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Law, and Associate, Castan Centre for Human Rights Law, Monash University
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Reader in International Migration and Forced Displacement and Deputy Director of the Institute for Research into Superdiversity, University of Birmingham
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Research Professor, Coventry University
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Honorary Fellow, University of Melbourne
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Research Fellow and Lecturer at the South African Research Chair in International Law (SARCIL), University of Johannesburg
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Professor of Sociology, University of Technology Sydney
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ARC Future Fellow, Griffith University
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Research Associate, Andrew & Renata Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law, UNSW
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Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations, Coventry University
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Adjunct Professor, Australian Catholic University
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Scientia Professor and Director of the Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law, UNSW
