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Recognising the symptoms of the dispossessed will prevent crimes against humanity.
The rise in the number of people fleeing Boko Haram terror calls for urgent amendments to Nigeria’s constitution to provide legal protection to the country’s millions of internally displaced citizens.
The ‘functional immunity’ granted to UN officials made good sense when the body was founded after World War II. But as its organisational functions have expanded, so has this immunity.
The number of refugees crossing the Aegean has dropped in recent months, but thousands are still stuck on a Greek island.
This summer, 10 refugee athletes will form a new team under the Olympic flag. But is the team – and the issue it represents – here to stay?
İzmir, Turkey’s third largest city, is a pit stop for Syrians headed to Europe – but for more and more of them, it’s becoming a home.
Australia’s history of dealing with asylum seekers has been a long and chequered one, paving the way for the hardline bipartisanship we see today.
History suggests that resettling refugees on Nauru and Manus Island in Australia and New Zealand will not enliven people smuggling between Indonesia and Christmas Island.
There is belief among some that climate change drives human displacement, but research in Malawi suggests otherwise.
East Africa is dealing with drought, famine, political instability – and hundreds of thousands of people in search of safety.
A Syrian asylum seeker has been permitted to stay in Greece on the grounds that Turkey is not safe for return. It could be a major blow for the EU’s controversial refugee strategy.
Students from non-English speaking backgrounds learn differently depending on the types and number of languages they speak and are literate in.
What does the data say about the number of boat arrivals around the time of the 2011 live export ban?
Plans for more robust architecture on forced migration need to be more advanced. Countries in our region must not rest on their laurels.
The timing of Kenya’s announcement that it will close the world’s largest refugee camp, and its reasons for doing so, hold important lessons for understanding refugee situations around the world.
The region is showing signs it is determined to ensure similar mass displacement crises such as that which took place in the Andaman Sea in 2015 are avoided.
Calls to stop division between emergency and development aid will be heard at UN’s first ever humanitarian summit.
Anticipation is core business for political strategists. Last year Bill Shorten and those around him correctly judged Labor was electorally exposed on border protection.
Immigration Minister Peter Dutton’s incendiary remarks about refugees may resonate electorally. But, as Michelle Grattan explains, they will also come at a cost.
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