Politicians increasingly frame migrants as threats to national identity, security and economic stability. This dehumanizes immigrants and creates an environment of fear and hostility for everyone.
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The asylum system is stacked against asylum seekers who have fled persecution for non-religious beliefs.
The values of conservation and self-transcendence are used to express negative versus positive attitudes toward asylum seekers and may change in response to policy shifts.
People are socially conditioned to think such heinous acts are committed by outsiders.
The inability to work hinders social integration, preventing asylum seekers from interacting with locals, learning the language and understanding local customs.
The numbers of refugees and asylum seekers are rising at a time when there is growing anti-immigrant sentiment.
The onus now appears to be shifting from the migrants to smugglers who have been profiteering from this inhumane trade.
When it comes to protection for refugees on the basis of cultural heritage loss, there are very few pathways available.
The homestay — often a refugee’s first encounter with a new society — is not just about providing a roof over their heads. It’s also about ensuring safety, dignity and integration into a new country.
New tech tools are more intrusive and subtler than physical barriers. They invade migrants’ privacy and are a threat to personal security.
Biden’s executive order won’t apply to undocumented minors who enter the US alone. And the order will require the help of Mexico and other countries.
European citizens have remarkably similar preferences on asylum policy, including being strongly in favour of asylum seekers being allowed to work.
Immigration ruling in Northern Ireland is holding the UK to account on its human rights commitments.
Calls to ‘close the border’ are an uncomfortable contradiction to Brexit-era efforts to avoid a hard border at all costs.
The bill, which aims to force people to cooperate in their own deportation, was subject to an inquiry. The government wants to proceed with the bill unchanged, despite widespread community concerns.
Safe Haven is an excoriating account of a shameful period of Australian history, told in a life-affirming voice that imagines a more humane future.
In the dissenting report to the deportation bill, the Coalition says it supports the policy intent of the legislation but has significant concerns about potential unintended consequences.
Recent comments about international students in Canada significantly abusing the asylum system are misleading and obscure the context needed to understand a complex issue.
The Rwanda plan was meant to stop the boats – but all the evidence shows deterrence doesn’t work
Placing migrants who are not criminals in prisons risks serious violations of their human rights and perpetuates narratives about the criminality of immigrants.
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