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Title 42 has triggered criticisms from immigration advocates and public health experts. But the end of the controversial policy may mean fewer asylum seekers crossing the US border.
Why are governments so rarely seen as being responsible for creating the conditions that allow asylum seeker tragedies to occur?
Plans by European states to outsource their asylum procedures to African states often fail and don’t offer political alternatives to asylum in Europe.
Discontinuing expanded health-care funding will result in less prenatal care for uninsured patients, more health risks, higher costs to the health system, and moral distress for health-care providers.
The immigration minister still retains ‘god-like’ powers in visa matters, but the ruling is at least an opportunity to make the process clearer, fairer and more transparent.
We wanted to examine not only the experiences that drove asylum seekers to the UK, but also the psychological effects of their experiences in the asylum system.
Over time, Armidale locals had more positive attitudes towards refugees and the regional settlement program.
The UK can count asylum seeker housing for 12 months as international aid.
Our new study describes the health effects of detention on children, and the clinical results are alarming.
The UK may be setting itself up to detain many people for indefinite periods.
The Australian experience of deterring and punishing asylum seekers who arrive by boat should serve as a warning rather than a blueprint for the UK.
The UK government’s plan to remove asylum seekers will likely face legal challenges.
The absence of reliable quantitative data makes it difficult – if not impossible – to hold Home Affairs, the police and other state entities to account.
Children who arrive alone in the UK should be treated equally to other children.
With the expiration of a pandemic-era restriction, the Biden administration is set to impose a new rule to curtail immigration at the US-Mexico border.
The Home Affairs and Immigration Ministers Clare O'Neil and Andrew Giles have announced that people on TPV and SHEV Visas will be eligible to apply
Britain is now desperately short of workers in some sectors. Yet our interviews with 100 women aged 50 and over show how hard it is for them to find secure employment
Policies designed to help only ‘genuine’ victims of trafficking have a long, fraught history.
Many asylum applications are rejected on grounds that dismiss the dire situations in applicants’ countries of origin.
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Adjunct professor, University of Adelaide
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Associate Professor, School of Law, Murdoch University
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Lecturer, Western Sydney University
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Associate Professor in Human Rights and International Law, University of Newcastle
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Deputy Director (Indo-Pacific Research) ARC Centre of Excellence for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, Griffith University
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Adjunct Professor, Australian Catholic University
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Associate Professor of Law, Deakin Law School, Deakin University
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Associate Professor, Law School, La Trobe University
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Emeritus Professor of Sociology, University of Technology Sydney
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Associate Professor and Deputy Director, Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law, UNSW Law & Justice, UNSW Sydney
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Senior Research Fellow, Andrew & Renata Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law, UNSW Sydney
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Adjunct Professor, Griffith Asia Institute, Griffith University
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Lecturer, Migration Law Program, Australian National University
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Emeritus professor, Monash University
