Al-Jazeera has changed its style guide, while others continue to debate the issue.
A global approach would significantly increase the burden-sharing between the refugee-hosting countries near Syria and the rest of the developed world.
Reuters/Stoyan Nenov
Australia’s current interest in the work temporary migrants do is laudable but needs to extend to other important issues of this million-strong community.
Newspapers report the death of Aylan Kurdi.
EPA/Andy Rain
A devastating picture of a drowned boy has touched viewers and political leaders alike – and could be a turning point in Europe’s spiralling refugee crisis.
Migrants from the Middle East wait outside a train station in Budapest on their way across Europe.
Laszlo Balogh/Reuters
The shift to Immigration and Border Protection – and the creation of the Australian Border Force – is the most profound change in the Department of Immigration’s history.
The increasing obsession with ‘border security’ has conspired to erode the nation-building objectives of Australian immigration policy.
AAP/Lukas Coch
Professor of International Migration and Forced Displacement and Director of the Institute for Research into International Migration and Superdiversity, University of Birmingham
Leader of Research Group “The Production of Knowledge on Migration” at the Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies, Osnabrück University, Osnabrück University