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Talk of a ‘clash of civilisations’ and targeting refugees simply alienates the people the West needs to reach out to.
It beggars belief that there are people who have attached themselves to groups seeking to escape this barbarity. Their objectives are the very antithesis of those seeking sanctuary.
South African university students are as guilty of xenophobia as anyone else. Three approaches through teaching and research could make a huge difference.
Dallas Rogers speaks with Shanthi Robertson and Ien Ang about the role migrants, refugees and the border will play in Australia during the Asian century.
More than 100 countries have taken the opportunity to comment and make recommendations on Australia’s human rights record.
Baddawi camp has been host to Palestinian refugees for years. Now Syrians fleeing their homeland are joining them, how is everyone coping?
Despite perceptions of a divided and troubled nation, social cohesion in Australia actually improved on most measures in 2015, the latest Scanlon Foundation survey finds.
Tony Abbott’s initial post-prime ministerial public foray on the policy front has been narrow cast and hard line.
In the 1920s, refugees were allowed unrestricted passage to countries that needed workers. There’s a lesson here.
Although Africa is familiar with large-scale refugee crises, it is uncommon for it to host people seeking protection from outside the continent, as is the case with thousands of Yemeni refugees.
Refugees are still flocking to Lesvos in their thousands – and as long as the water offers more hope than the land, people will continue to die.
Turkey is to take in more refugees in exchange for relaxed visa rules – but what’s the real cost?
A spokesman from the office of ALP senator Lisa Singh told The Conversation by email that: In seeking to illustrate how processing has slowed and refugee detainees are being made to languish for longer…
Assistant Health Minister Ken Wyatt and ALP senator Lisa Singh couldn’t agree on Q&A about whether asylum seeking children “languished” in detention under the previous government. Who was right?
Border agency Frontex recently reported that an unprecedented 710,000 migrants had entered the EU this year. Something didn’t ring true for Nando Sigona.
By focusing on people traffickers, leaders are spinning a dangerous narrative about this crisis.
Doctors at Melbourne’s Royal Children’s Hospital are refusing to discharge refugee children back into detention. Which should be a priority - their duty of care to their patient or the law?
A satirical manga cartoon of a Syrian refugee child has had the internet up in arms – but there’s plenty more tone-deafness where that came from.
Solving the refugee crisis depends on the extent to which the people of the world – in the Gulf, Europe, Australia or anywhere else – are willing to live up to their moral responsibilities.
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Associate Professor, School of Law, Murdoch University
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Lecturer and Senior Research Fellow at the South African Research Chair in International Law (SARCIL), University of Johannesburg
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Associate Professor in Human Rights and International Law, University of Newcastle
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Adjunct professor, University of Adelaide
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Research Professor, Centre for Policy Research (UNU-CPR), United Nations University
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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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Associate Professor of Law, Deakin Law School, Deakin University
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Senior Research Fellow, Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law, UNSW Sydney
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Assistant Professor in the Department of Equity Studies, York University, Canada
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Senior Research Fellow, Andrew & Renata Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law, UNSW Sydney
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Scientia Professor and Director of the Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law, UNSW Sydney
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Professor and Chair: Mental Health Nursing, University of South Australia
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Associate Professor and Deputy Director, Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law, UNSW Law & Justice, UNSW Sydney
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Professor of Social Economics, UTS Business School, University of Technology Sydney
