Tracking the long and complex journey of refugees and migrants.
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Many migrants would have stopped before they reached Europe – if only there had been the opportunities.
Peter Dutton speaking at a media conference at Parliament House on Wednesday.
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Peter Dutton’s Wednesday news conference was the predictable rant against Labor, but something else came through. The Immigration Minister is genuinely anxious to get the refugees off Nauru and Manus Island…
Bill Shorten called on the government to reveal the detail of any accompanying arrangements for resettling the Nauru and Manus people.
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Shortly after Malcolm Turnbull and Immigration Minister Peter Dutton aggressively targeted Labor on Sunday when announcing the government’s latest draconian border deterrent, Turnbull rang Bill Shorten…
A relative of asylum seekers being held on Nauru cries at a press conference to launch an Amnesty International report.
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It has been the absolutism embedded in Australian immigration culture of control that helps explain our hardline policy history on asylum seekers.
Through reframing issues, strong leaders can adopt and promote strongly humanitarian policies toward issues such as refugees.
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In a globalised world, the credibility of the birthright lottery as grounds for excluding people from protection may be diminishing.
A tear gas cannister on the outskirts of the Calais camp.
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The French and British governments have prioritised security over humanity for refugees in the Calais Jungle.
Evicted: migrants and refugees wait to be processed at the Calais Jungle.
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As the camp for migrants and refugees outside Calais is dismantled, two academics from either side of the Channel look at what will happen next.
Arrivals in Croydon from the Calais Jungle.
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Scepticism beats back humanitarian response to unaccompanied minors arriving from Calais Jungle.
Dreams of a better life for those in the Calais Jungle camp.
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An academic explains what it has been like running a storytelling course for migrants and refugees in the Calais camp.
Children’s access to education in Nauru has declined following the acknowledgement of their refugee status.
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An implementation gap means Australian courts cannot directly enforce children’s rights as protected in international law.
Girls are at greater risk of early marriage in refugee camps where their parents are unable to provided the necessary support.
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Rates of child marriage increase among refugee communities, where rates of sexual violence are high and opportunities for families low.
Q&A panellists discussed migration and refugees, but struggled to agree on what the numbers show.
Q&A
On Q&A, panellists duelled over the numbers of migrants Australia takes a year. Is it 200,000 or 800,000? How many permanent and how many temporary? Let’s check the facts.
Within weeks of the ‘Children Overboard’ claims, the Howard government enforced a media blackout of sorts on asylum seekers.
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How do the media management strategies devised in haste 15 years ago affect how asylum seekers are portrayed today?
Antonio Guterres at a refugee camp near Erbil in northern Iraq.
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As the former UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Guterres could promote a more unified approach to helping the displaced.
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The European Union has no qualms about using aid as a bargaining chip to pressure other countries into taking back refugees.
A Syrian couple waits on the Turkish side of the Oncupinar border crossing for their parents to arrive.
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Integrating large refugee populations goes far beyond simply offering citizenship to some.
Burundian refugees fleeing conflict at home gather on the shores of Lake Tanganyika in Kigoma region in western Tanzania.
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The initiative to establish an African Humanitarian Agency is a welcome one. But political, technical and financial support will matter. This will require the AU to take a pragmatic approach. Can it?
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Guterres must know the world we live in today more globally and more intimately than many a former minister or executive.
University students and supporters of the peace deal protest during a rally in Bogotá, Colombia.
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Few Colombians who have been displaced by violence voted on the peace deal from abroad. An expert in conflict resolution explains why their voices must be part of the peace process.
Syrians arrive at Fiumicino Airport in Rome in February.
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Safe passage for vulnerable refugees could help stop thousands from making a perilous journey across the Mediterranean.