Deported and drowned: an Italian memorial in London to those who died on the Arandora Star in 1940.
Martin Addison / Remembrance for the Drowned via Wikimedia Commons
Trump hopes migrants won't come if they know their children will be taken away. That grim logic ignores the inescapable dangers that drive thousands of Central Americans to flee their homes each year.
Food is handed out by the NGO ‘SOS Mediterranee’ to people on the Aquarius.
Kenny Karpov/EPA
Spain has agreed to allow the Aquarius, a boat carrying 629 migrants, to dock in Valencia. But the EU remains gridlocked over asylum rules.
Malian migrant Mamoudou Gassama met French president Emmanuel Macron on May 22, 2018. He was officially given French citizenship soon after.
Thibault Camus/AFP
The Trump administration sees plenty of problems in Central America – but it seems to be doing everything it can to make them worse.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks to local residents at a public barbecue ahead of the G7 Summit in La Malbaie, Quebec.
THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jacques Boissinot
Justin Trudeau's pattern of bizarre behaviour is coming into focus, previously obscured by his progressive politics and human rights activism at home and abroad.
A refugee family who was evacuated from Libya leave an UNHCR office in Niamey, on November 17, 2017, after being interviewed by protection officers of the French Office of Protection Refugees and Stateless Persons (OFPRA).
Sia Kambou/AFP
Many scholars argue that attracting migrants is essential to economic competitiveness in a globalising world.
U.S. President Donald Trump holds up an executive order to tighten the rules for technology companies seeking to bring highly skilled foreign workers to the United States in April 2017.
(AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato)
U.S. President Donald Trump's move to crack down on temporary skilled workers is a terrible mistake that disproportionately harms women and people of colour.
Britain’s new home secretary: Sajid Javid.
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For Australia, the median age is 37.2 years. The Northern Territory is the youngest state or territory with a a median age of 32.4 years and Tasmania is the oldest at 42 years.
Lucy Francineth Granados, a Montréal community organizer advocating for the rights of undocumented workers was forcibly and violently arrested at her home by the Canadian Border Security Agency on March 20, 2018. Community protests like this one on March 23 sprang up all over the city.
(Ion Extebarria)
What kind of a country is Canada? One which truly welcomes and respects immigrants and their lives and safety? Or one which just says it does but brutally detains and deports them?
Knowing how to ask for directions in another language is vastly different from studying and working using the language.
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Some learning apps promise to have you speaking a new language in two weeks. But truly learning a language requires considerable time, effort and commitment.