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In this podcast, Michelle Grattan discusses the blueprint for reform with commission chair, Michael Brennan
Channel crossings have been increasing in recent years.
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Arresting smugglers is difficult, and doesn’t make migrants less likely to seek out their services.
President of Tunisia, Kais Saied (R) meets Guinea-Bissau’s President Umaro Sissoco Embalo in Tunis on 8 March 2023.
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In Tunisia, scapegoating migrants diverts from the continuous failure of government to solve deep economic and social crisis.
Footballers in Africa dream of a career in Europe
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Beyond the glamour and fan adulation, African footballers in Europe struggle with adjusting to a new environment.
Montana Republican congressman Ryan Zinke, once Donald Trump’s Interior Secretary, is among the politicians raising alarms about the Canada-U.S. border. Zinke referrred to migrants crossing into the U.S. from Canada as an assault.
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Rather than demonize migrants, legislators everywhere should address the issues that force them to migrate.
A placard placed by local activists in Calais, northern France, March 8, 2023. Rhetoric about the threat posed by climate-induced displacement does not accurately portray the reality for most of those affected.
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Recognizing the challenges posed by climate-induced displacement is important. But officials must avoid rhetoric about displaced people that can fuel xenophobia.
This form of skilled labour migration should be rethought.
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Hosting migrants isn’t only motivated by humanitarian reasons. In Germany immigration provides solutions to demographic and economic problems.
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Schools, friends, support and local knowledge can’t be picked up and moved to a different city.
Dozens of displaced people gather along the fence of the MONUSCO base in DRC.
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A specific regional protocol could ease the management of internally displaced persons in the region.
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Successive Japanese administrations have tried – and largely failed – to reduce urban overcrowding for 70 years.
Scientists fix biologger tags to animals to gain an insight into their movement and behaviour.
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Scientists use biologging devices to track animal behaviour – here are four times where it has improved our understanding of nature.
A Turkish barbers’ shop in Berlin, where there’s a large Turkish community.
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Four-fifths of the first-generation Turkish men who came to Europe as guest-workers and ended up settling there lived below an income poverty line.
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A new historical study looking at migration into the US suggests restricting low-skilled immigration boosts low-skilled wages in the short term – but ends up hurting local workers’ wages longer-term.
Asylum seekers waiting for support at the offices of the Refugee Council in London, 2002.
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Many asylum applications are rejected on grounds that dismiss the dire situations in applicants’ countries of origin.
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Drawn by jobs - or escaping climate change - many people from the Pacific are moving elsewhere.
Brown-veined white butterflies migrate annually from the Kalahari region to Mozambique.
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Across the world, phenological events are occurring increasingly earlier as a result of climate change.
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Football provides a ‘possible dream’ for people in a precarious immigration situation.
Leaving the EU has meant leaving a series of agreements on immigration.
Some Albanians towns have lost a lot of their younger population.
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Levels of poverty shot up in Albania during COVID when there was little governmental support.
A young Fulani pastoralist from the Tatki region of Senegal who must learn another craft because his future is uncertain.
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Millions of Africans could be uprooted or trapped where they are through climate-induced displacement and migration.