The 39 migrants who froze to death in a lorry crossing the channel join hundreds more who have died trying to get into Europe over land.
Academic rigor, journalistic flair
Articles on Refugees
Displaying 361 - 380 of 1198 articles
Almost 4 million Syrian refugees live in Turkey, which has taken noteworthy steps to integrate them into the country in the past five years. Will Turkey now try to force those refugees back to Syria?
Turkey is threatening to send 3.6 million refugees back to the Syrian territory it just invaded. Deporting these vulnerable people would make them the collateral damage of a chaotic, many-sided war.
Over the past few decades, the US has gradually lowered the ceiling for refugees.
The 2015 reception crisis had a profound impact on civil society in Europe. A significant set of attitudes and practices emerged that give a sense of what political participation means today.
Sanctuaries that protect everything from gun rights to the unborn are popping up across the country. They challenge federal law and the shared understanding of its power and role in the US.
From high staff turn-overs to filling the appeals tribunal with political allies, the Home Affairs department needs to clean its mess.
Asylum seekers are not permanent residents and have to pay full fees for university courses. Just as doctors led the campaign to get kids off Nauru, academics can advocate for access to education.
Only rarely are refugees’ and migrants’ words taken into account about the reception system in Europe. And what they tell us is frightening.
But out-of-date kit, lack of access to digital technologies and expensive mobile broadband packages can all act as barriers to being able to operate successfully in the digital world.
Some refugees have been waiting to be resettled for almost a decade, and their broken trust is visceral.
The US is violating its own law governing treatment of refugees.
The government would be willing to put a feast on the table to get a win on the medevac repeal, but this is a piece of legislation on which Lambie should not contemplate any deals.
More than two out of three displaced people are not refugees, but remain within their own country.
Of the original 31,000 refugees in the ‘fast-track’ visa caseload, nearly 8,200 are yet to have their applications processed. As a result, their lives remain in limbo.
The new Greek government is putting in place new measures to stop the flow of refugees crossing the Aegan Sea.
The Kindertransport saved thousands of Jewish children from the Nazis before World War II. But planned reforms to UK asylum policy are putting refugee children at risk.
The effects of climate change will disproportionately affect the world’s poorest, risking the lives and health of millions of people located mainly in the Global South.
As the Sri Lankan Tamil family from Biloela prepares to learn their fate tomorrow, Scott Morrison and Peter Dutton can’t avoid looking threadbare in terms of humanity.
Jordan has a huge number of Syrian refugees and since 2016 it has let them legally enter the workforce.
Top contributors
-
Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
-
Associate Professor, School of Law, Murdoch University
-
Lecturer and Senior Research Fellow at the South African Research Chair in International Law (SARCIL), University of Johannesburg
-
Associate Professor in Human Rights and International Law, University of Newcastle
-
Adjunct professor, University of Adelaide
-
Research Professor, Centre for Policy Research (UNU-CPR), United Nations University
-
Professor of International Migration and Forced Displacement and Director of the Institute for Research into International Migration and Superdiversity, University of Birmingham
-
Associate Professor of Law, Deakin Law School, Deakin University
-
Senior Research Fellow, Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law, UNSW Sydney
-
Assistant Professor in the Department of Equity Studies, York University, Canada
-
Senior Research Fellow, Andrew & Renata Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law, UNSW Sydney
-
Scientia Professor and Director of the Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law, UNSW Sydney
-
Professor and Chair: Mental Health Nursing, University of South Australia
-
Associate Professor and Deputy Director, Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law, UNSW Law & Justice, UNSW Sydney
-
Professor of Social Economics, UTS Business School, University of Technology Sydney
