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The suicides of four Chinese children left behind by their migrant worker parents could be an ominous sign of things to come.
The coalition prioritised cutting migrant numbers but has also made life more difficult for those still coming in.
Italian PM blasts fellow EU leaders for spat over who takes in the desperate people arriving in his country every day.
With thousands dying in the Mediterranean, migrants and refugees have started coming to Europe by land. And countries in the East aren’t happy.
One of the main premises of strict immigration policies is that states have total rights over their territory. That doesn’t make much sense.
Skilled migrants from India, China and other neighbouring countries are building pathways for innovation, growth and better understanding between Australia and their homelands.
A summit in Bangkok is discussing the fate of thousands of people who were stranded at sea. Australia is represented but refuses to resettle any refugees, casting doubt on its commitment to a regional solution.
The EU’s proposal to relocate 40,000 Syrian and Eritrean nationals from Greece and Italy to other EU Member States is not what it seems.
The European Union is spearheading a campaign to enable military action against the boats carrying migrants seeking to leave Libya and arrive on EU shores – and on May 11, a draft resolution will be presented…
Higher education institutions that only hire academics from their own backyards simply cannot compete in this era of the global university.
The problem with auctioning immigration places is that it puts the focus on short-term revenue-raising, rather than immigration’s more important medium- to long-term nation-building role.
The migration of early Africans into the Middle East, then across the Mediterranean into Europe and Asia – and eventually into the Americas and Australia and the Pacific Islands – is the origin of today’s humanity.
More than 20 years ago, two American academics, Max Singer and Aaron Wildavsky, wrote about what they described as The Real World Order: Zones of Peace/Zones of Turmoil. As is the way with such things…
After another operation to rescue immigrants on a capsized boat, what do we need to know about the motives and methods for dealing with the problem?
Researchers have created the finest-scale genetic map of any country in the world.
The data shows that most of us could afford to do more to shelter those fleeing from Syria’s civil war.
The prime minister’s claim that more people died during the Mare Nostrum search and rescue operation is disingenuous.
Europe still hasn’t figured out how to identify or help refugees.
Shanthi Robertson on the changing face of migration
Immigration is a contentious topic in many parts of the world, and the debate in Australia has been predictably framed around asylum seekers, the burdens on taxpayers and the protection of local jobs…
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Professor of International Migration and Forced Displacement and Director of the Institute for Research into International Migration and Superdiversity, University of Birmingham
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Professor of International Politics, University of Warwick
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Research Professor, Centre for Policy Research (UNU-CPR), United Nations University
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Emeritus Professor of Sociology, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor of Social Economics, UTS Business School, University of Technology Sydney
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Associate Professor, Institute for Culture and Society & School of Humanities and Communication Arts, Western Sydney University
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Honorary Professor of International Relations, University of the Witwatersrand
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Director, Mitchell Institute, Victoria University
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Adjunct professor, University of Adelaide
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Leader of Research Group “The Production of Knowledge on Migration” at the Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies, Osnabrück University, Osnabrück University
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Honorary Fellow in the School of Social and Political Sciences, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Researcher, Political Science, University of Amsterdam
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Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy and Visitor, Regnet School of Regulation and Global Governance, Australian National University
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Associate Lecturer, ANU College of Law – Migration Law Program, Australian National University
