A satire on the 1905 Aliens Act.
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A steady retreat from a distinctive British tradition of refuge has stained policy around immigration.
A protest against the UK’s hostile immigration environment outside the Home Office on April 30.
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A culture of disbelief for asylum seekers is endemic in the British immigration system.
Macron visits a migrant centre in Croisilles, northern France, in January.
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France’s new immigration bill exposes the flaw in fixating on numbers rather than people’s lives.
A Rohingya Muslim child kisses his mother after they fled Myanmar for Bangladesh in September 2017. Thousands of Rohingya Muslims have fled their country for places like Malaysia and Thailand, where a UN agency assesses their refugee claims. But can the UNHCR unwittingly cause countries to neglect investigating war crimes?
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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.
A welcome to refugees from local school children in Belfast.
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Northern Ireland lacks an integration strategy for refugees.
The Libyan coastguard has received money from the EU to stop migrant boats crossing the Mediterranean.
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Insincerity and short-termism rule global responses to Libyan migration.
Even though Indonesia is not a signatory to the 1951 Refugee Convention and its additional protocol, it’s bound to honour the principle of non-refoulement.
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Indonesia’s decree on refugees honours a customary international law obligation of non-refoulement, or not expelling or returning refugees.
The minority view …
Melanie Lemahieu
Experiences of LGBT asylum seekers in Netherlands flies in the face of the much-vaunted Dutch reputation for tolerance.
Afghan workers clean the scene of a suicide bomb attack nearby the German embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan, May 31 2017.
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Migrants sent back to Afghanistan face a very grim future.
Displaced children, like these in the Iraqi town of Qaraqosh, are remarkably resilient but not all thrive in their new countries. Here’s how we can help them.
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New research into the health of newly arrived refugee children in Australia gives us clues about how we can help all refugee kids.
Some migrants were returned to the Calais area in February.
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What has happened to former residents since the camp was closed in October 2016.
Asylum-seeking refugees escorted from a train outside Malmö, Sweden in 2015.
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Sweden’s crime rate is not affected by the immigration rate and the state has introduced stricter asylum laws.
Getting asylum seekers into jobs is the number one concern for Sweden.
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Sweden is not suffering a crime wave because of immigrants, but there are real obstacles to overcome in getting refugees into employement.
A U.S. Border Patrol agent patrols the U.S. border with Mexico in Nogales, Arizona.
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What happens when an undocumented immigrant meets a law enforcement officer? Communication plays a major role in these high-stakes interactions.
Syrian refugees attend a knitting lesson in Istanbul.
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What Trump’s immigration order means for three million refugees in Turkey
Labor MP Kate Ellis, speaking on Q&A.
Q&A
After Australia announced a refugee deal with the US, Labor’s Kate Ellis told Q&A that millions of dollars were spent on an earlier deal with Cambodia, yet very few lives were changed. Is that right?
The agreement would not extend to anyone who arrives in the future, or to those asylum seekers who have not been judged to be refugees.
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The federal government has finally unveiled its agreement for the United States to resettle refugees from Nauru and Manus Island.
Asylum seekers at the Manus Regional Processing Centre in Papa New Guinea, one of Australia’s two offshore immigration detention facilities.
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Across Europe anti immigration political leaders are turning to Australia for inspiration on how to reduce the number of people seeking asylum in their countries.
Bill Shorten called on the government to reveal the detail of any accompanying arrangements for resettling the Nauru and Manus people.
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Shortly after Malcolm Turnbull and Immigration Minister Peter Dutton aggressively targeted Labor on Sunday when announcing the government’s latest draconian border deterrent, Turnbull rang Bill Shorten…
Q&A panellists discussed migration and refugees, but struggled to agree on what the numbers show.
Q&A
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.