Solving the refugee crisis depends on the extent to which the people of the world – in the Gulf, Europe, Australia or anywhere else – are willing to live up to their moral responsibilities.
East meets West: refugees cross from Turkey into Greece.
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In his hostility towards refugees, Hungary’s prime minister has forgotten that nearly 2,000 years ago, Syrians lived on the land that now makes up his country.
Migrants and refugees are placed under constant scrutiny once they arrive in the EU. But what happens to those who don’t survive the journey is a different story.
A damaged church in Maaloula, a Christian town in Syria.
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In the years following the end of World War II, Germany took in between 12 and 14 million refugees. What lessons does this past disaster have for today’s Europe?
Are some countries more compassionate than others when it comes to taking in the victims of conflict and chaos? To judge from the numbers, one might be forgiven for thinking so. Of the four million registered…
Many features of Australians’ and their government’s current response to the Syrian refugee crisis are familiar.
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We need to see Australia’s response to the Syrian refugee crisis in perspective – in relation to what’s been done elsewhere and to what Australia has done on similar occasions in the past.
A new start: Syrian refugee Raghad al Sous now lives in Huddersfield.
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There is no sound reason why 13,000 should remain the benchmark number for discussions of how many refugees Australia should take.
While Tony Abbott came slowly to embrace the refugee boost, he has been raring to go on the other leg of this week’s announcement – the extension of Australian air strikes to Syria.
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The current influx of asylum seekers, refugees and economic migrants into Western Europe presents a profound challenge to the European Union’s values, solidarity and capacity to simply manage and accommodate…
Despite the slowdown in China, Josh Frydenberg says that there are strong signs for the Australian economy.
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The federal government’s decision to take 12,000 extra refugees from the Syrian-Iraq conflict will cost the budget A$700 million over the forward estimates.
Professor of International Migration and Forced Displacement and Director of the Institute for Research into International Migration and Superdiversity, University of Birmingham