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Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh have been stuck in makeshift camps for years. They are now being targeted by criminal gangs, alongside public health and well-being issues.
Sea levels could rise by two metres by 2100, sparking a refugee crisis unlike anything the world has ever seen.
Immigration is seen as a global crisis, but the distribution of immigrants is anything but equal. Which countries have the most? Where they come from? Data provides some surprising answers.
Italy's deputy prime minister remains immune from prosecution because his coalition partners, the Five Star Movement, let members vote online to uphold it.
After 1.3 million migrants from the Middle East and Africa came to Europe in 2015, many countries built fences or closed their ports. That has pushed migrants to take riskier routes into the EU.
Research shows that when refugees arrive in Canada they find a health system that is ill-equipped to meet their complex social and psychological needs.
A series of recent comics are trying to shift the narrative about refugees.
Despite heated debates about immigration policy, German citizens' views of migrants and a 'refugee crisis' changed little in the year after Angela Merkel's 2015 decision to open borders.
All Eritrean men between the ages of 18 – 50 have to serve in the army for more than 20 years, forcing thousands to flee. But things look set to change.
In government with the Five Star Movement, the radical politician's Lega is going from strength to strength.
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'.
New research confirms a 'refugee gap' in employment levels, which is exacerbated if refugees are dispersed around a country.
As countries compete to deter asylum seekers, there's a vicious cycle in which governments seek to outdo each other by implementing progressively more restrictive policies.
To avoid another refugee 'crisis' that would take the world by surprise, East Asia would do well to be prepared for an influx of people from North Korea.
Vast numbers of Rohingyas in the region are stateless, living in limbo. Therefore, the Rohingya repatriation deal, its terms, delay and successful implementation impacts upon the lives of millions.
Electronically monitoring migrants and refugees may seem like a humane alternative to detention, but it's rife with problems and still criminalizes would-be immigrants.
Limitations improve creativity: we think up solutions we would never have thought of in a lab.
Despite an international commitment to protect civilians from genocidal violence, the world's response to ethnic cleansing in Myanmar has been feeble. An expert explains the challenges.
Along the Balkan route, refugees and migrants are still in need of emergency aid.
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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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Reader in International Security, University of Warwick
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Professor of Law, University of Essex
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Senior Lecturer in Czech Studies, University of Glasgow
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Professor in The Division of Global Affairs and The Department of Political Science, Rutgers University Newark
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Reader in Sociology, City, University of London
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Professor of Sociology, The Open University
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Chair, Department of Judaic and Near Eastern Studies, and Associate Professor of Middle Eastern Studies and Public Policy, University of Massachusetts Amherst
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Network Fellow, Edmond J Safra Center for Ethics, Harvard University and Professor of Business Ethics, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick
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Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations, Coventry University
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Professor of Transnational Studies and Marketing & Director of Regent's Centre for Transnational Studies, Regent's University London
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Research Associate, Coventry University
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PhD Candidate in Management, Columbia University
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Professor of Anthropology, The Ohio State University
