The short answer is ‘yes’ - the states can impede people moving across borders if it is for the protection of public health.
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Canadian leaders have desperately tried to preserve the country’s image of liberal humanitarianism at our border, but the reality is Canada’s immigration history is built upon exclusion.
Despite many attempts, the Kurds have never won and kept their own nation – though, after World War I, they came close.
It’s feared many of the 39 people found dead in a lorry in southeast England were Vietnamese. What else could be done to prevent another such tragedy from happening again?
Nigeria’s border closure is a panicked reaction which violates ECOWAS protocol.
While critics accuse companies facing lots of lawsuits of using bankruptcy as a sort of ‘get of jail free card,’ the reality of the legal procedure is more complicated.
Immigrant children could remain indefinitely in federal detention if courts allow the Trump administration to ditch a landmark agreement that has protected migrant children for decades.
The 1929 immigration measure has become a focal point due to Trump’s crackdown on undocumented people, including families.
As part of a new ‘metering’ policy, US officials are turning asylum seekers away at ports of entry along the southern border. Thousands wait, straining the resources of Mexican border towns.
These are the five options for Brexit: Theresa May’s withdrawal agreement, staying in the customs union, staying in the single market, the so-called Common Market 2.0 idea or a no-deal Brexit.
Both presidents brought border traffic and trade to a standstill in hopes of changing Mexican policy in the drug war. And both failed to achieve their goals.
As migrant caravans become commonplace, life goes on along the frontera sur where tumultuous Central America and the poorest part of Mexico meet.
Brazil’s president has threatened military intervention in neighboring Venezuela, called its leader a ‘dictator’ and sent troops to the border. But Brazil’s military is quietly working to avoid war.
As Congress and President Trump struggle to devise a coherent immigration policy along the US southern border, there are lessons from ancient history that could prove instructive.
While the West fails to solve its border issues, countries in Asia and Africa have found a positive way forward.
This award to a long neglected writer shows that there is still a place in Australian life for works of art that challenge us to think.
Civil society groups continue to fight against the creeping demands of the UK’s immigration system.
A record number of immigrant children are being detained in the US. Here’s what you need to know.
Canada’s opposition Conservatives are borrowing from European populists in stoking fears about asylum-seekers and migrants. Here’s why that’s so dangerous.
The president says immigration is bad for the US economy. Economists disagree.
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Professor of Political Sociology, Queen's University Belfast
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Professor Emerita in Constitutional Law, University of Sydney
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Professor and Canada Research Chair in Global Health Governance; Scientific Director, Pacific Institute on Pathogens, Pandemics and Society, Simon Fraser University
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Senior Lecturer in Sociology, University of East London
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Dean and Professor of Public Interest Law and Chicana/o Studies, University of California, Davis
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Researcher in International Relations and Politics, Development Studies and Borders, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati
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Professor of English, Writing and Society Research Centre, Western Sydney University
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Professor of Sociology and Chair, University of Colorado Boulder
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Associate Professor, Paediatrics, Griffith University
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Professor of Political Geography, Newcastle University
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Professor, Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University
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Professor, Department of Geography and Canada Research Chair in Health Service Geographies, Simon Fraser University
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Professor of Physics, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor of Film and Screen Studies, University of Portsmouth
