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Asylum seekers – Analysis and Comment
There must be genuine efforts to ensure transition from uncertainty to permanent status for refugees currently detained offshore as soon as possible.
It could save the British government up to £173.6m in savings in asylum support.
Peter Dutton’s allegations and their impacts will again demonstrate the zero-sum nature of political gamesmanship over refugees.
The Australian government’s refugee deal with the US is the first positive news in three years for asylum seekers and refugees on Nauru and Manus Island.
The Federal Government’s proposal to permanently ban asylum seekers and refugees who come to Australia by boat is in direct contravention of the Refugee Convention.
Across Europe anti immigration political leaders are turning to Australia for inspiration on how to reduce the number of people seeking asylum in their countries.
The government’s message to asylum seekers is already clear: you are not welcome, and you will not be resettled in Australia. Surely that message does not need to be any harsher.
In a globalised world, the credibility of the birthright lottery as grounds for excluding people from protection may be diminishing.
From a social media post that cracked open a decades-old abuse scandal in the UK and Australia, through to tracking asylum seekers, social media can be vital in breaking investigative news stories.
An implementation gap means Australian courts cannot directly enforce children’s rights as protected in international law.
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.
How do the media management strategies devised in haste 15 years ago affect how asylum seekers are portrayed today?
As the former UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Guterres could promote a more unified approach to helping the displaced.
Uncertainty and injustice have become the staple diet of the British asylum system.
Access to immigration and asylum tribunals is about to get a lot more costly.
More than 44% of Mexican women face violence in their homes. Some of them become asylum seekers in the United States.
Survey findings are typically considered in isolation in the media, with no understanding of context, of what is within and what is beyond the expected.
Theresa May’s proposals for curbs on uncontrolled migration are both unimaginative and disingenuous.
Unless managed more effectively, forced migration will have permanent and intensifying negative impacts on countries across the globe.
A new policy to take refugees from Central America may be paving the way to solve the refugee problem on Manus Island and Nauru.
Public attitudes toward migration are a key driver of political instability and controversy across Europe and North America.
Should Australia stick with its current model of state-controlled refugee resettlement schemes? Or are there other models we can learn from?
While the debate around Section 18C has raged, a host of other laws that impinge on freedom of speech have been quietly introduced.
Syrians are the latest high profile refugees to arrive on British shores – what can history tell us about their prospects?