The Supreme Court issued a tied decision.
REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
A brief decision from the highest court will impact millions of lives in the U.S. GSU legal expert explains what will change, and what won’t.
Strict controls.
Gareth Fuller/PA Wire
MPs are considering a change to a policy that bans asylum seekers from working for 12 months.
All three leading GOP candidates have plans to change the H-1B visa program, though in different ways.
Reuters
The H-1B visa, created in 1990 to bring in specialized foreign workers, is in desperate need of reform. Where do the candidates stand?
Anti-immigration march in Riesa, Germany, September 9 2015.
Fabrizio Bensch/REUTERS
Many Western policies that aim to prevent terrorism may actually be causing it.
Will adding a few feet help deter someone seeking a better life?
Reuters
Donald Trump and Carly Fiorina boast that their business experience would make them excellent presidents, yet their immigration policies fall short of the lessons from Business 101.
From Afar on a Hill seeks to dispel misconceptions around the numbers, circumstances, motivations and the actual mechanisms for acceptance of asylum seekers in Australia.
Company Upstairs
From Afar on a Hill is an immersive theatre work that provides insight into the lived experience of asylum seekers and lays bare the arbitrariness of Australia’s immigration policies.
Migrants rescued from a boat capsized off the coast of Libya in early August.
Darrin Zammit Lupi/Reuters
The Dublin laws means states can return migrants to the country where they first arrived in Europe.
Theresa May and David Cameron meet immigration officers after a raid on residential properties.
Laura Lean / PA Wire/Press Association Images
Landlords will be able to evict illegal immigrants without a court order, under new proposals.
Migrants entering the EU on bicycles via Macedonia.
Georgi Licovski/EPA
One of the main premises of strict immigration policies is that states have total rights over their territory. That doesn’t make much sense.
Valuable resource.
Rolex Dena Pena/EPA
Foreign-born nurses working in the UK do a vital job in the face of discrimination, but their recruitment helps entrench global healthcare inequality.
St Anton, Austria: living together isn’t always easy.
the_junes/Flickr
An expert spent seven years studying the interactions between locals and immigrants: this is what he found.
May’s attempt to stand firm on the migrant crisis has been cackhanded.
EPA/Andy Rain
Theresa May defends her decision to refuse help to people risking their lives to come to Europe with some faulty evidence.
Rohingya refugees from Myanmar travelled in this fishing boat to Sumatra, Indonesia, with officials announcing some 2000 people were rounded up or rescued after arriving in Malaysia and Indonesia over the weekend.
EPA
Australia may have ‘stopped the boats’ but the tragedy of people drowning at sea continues to our north and is getting worse. A regional solution to the refugee crisis is urgently needed.
The great Australian success story of Frank Lowy and many others like him would not have happened had Australia not accepted penniless refugees.
AAP/Dean Lewins
The problem with auctioning immigration places is that it puts the focus on short-term revenue-raising, rather than immigration’s more important medium- to long-term nation-building role.
Academics doing battle with the Home Office.
British visa entry via FotograFFF/www.shutterstock.com
Academics are on the frontline, battling the Home Office over new visa regulations.
Tough on immigration? UKIP supporters are listening.
Andy Rain/EPA
Ipsos Mori are asking thousands about their views on this polarising topic.
Migrants are a good investment for a well-governed nation like Australia.
DIBP/Flickr
Immigration policy is too focused on quotas, when a market solution that could benefit the country is readily available.
Enough is enough.
EPA/Jose Sena Goulão
It’s absurd that Europe continues to blame migrants seeking a better life for their own fate.
Your name’s not down.
Martin Rickett/PA
Our immigration expert evaluates the manifestos of 16 political parties, to see how their policies on immigration stack up.
Leanne Wood has been putting Plaid’s policies forward to the public - but do they stand up to expert scrutiny?
Ken McKay/ITV/Rex
Our experts check if Plaid Cyrmu’s policies measure up.