A refugee policy built on deflecting the issue, rather than confronting it, is not sustainable. We cannot continue to 'contract out' our international obligations.
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Prime Minister Scott Morrison can learn from the pitfalls that contributed to the downfall of the Rudd and Gillard governments.
The 2001 federal election was a watershed moment for Australian national security that has set a policy agenda for almost two decades.
Global capitalist pressures on labour markets and the search for cheaper workers can lead to slavery.
The refugee convention wasn't designed with women in mind. Women fleeing domestic violence and asking for asylum face many barriers to qualifying for protection under international law.
Trump has called Venezuela a 'human tragedy' and threatened invasion while quietly deporting and denying asylum to Venezuelan refugees. His anti-socialist rhetoric may make for good midterm politics.
Canada's opposition Conservatives are borrowing from European populists in stoking fears about asylum-seekers and migrants. Here's why that's so dangerous.
Elin Ersson was accused of frightening children – but it's more likely that she inspired them.
Public opinion data on immigration show support across parties and ideologies on a key immigration issue over time.
Undocumented entries across the border are at all-time lows. The people now arriving are not Mexican workers, but a smaller number of Central American families seeking to escape dire circumstances.
A steady retreat from a distinctive British tradition of refuge has stained policy around immigration.
A culture of disbelief for asylum seekers is endemic in the British immigration system.
France’s new immigration bill exposes the flaw in fixating on numbers rather than people's lives.
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees assesses the refugee claims of millions of people worldwide. It needs to be more open about what it discovers and how it makes decisions.
Northern Ireland lacks an integration strategy for refugees.
Insincerity and short-termism rule global responses to Libyan migration.
Indonesia's decree on refugees honours a customary international law obligation of non-refoulement, or not expelling or returning refugees.
Experiences of LGBT asylum seekers in Netherlands flies in the face of the much-vaunted Dutch reputation for tolerance.
Migrants sent back to Afghanistan face a very grim future.
New research into the health of newly arrived refugee children in Australia gives us clues about how we can help all refugee kids.
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Emeritus Professor of Sociology, University of Technology Sydney
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Associate Professor, Politics and International Relations, La Trobe University
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Scientia Professor and Director of the Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law, UNSW
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Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Law, and Associate, Castan Centre for Human Rights Law, Monash University
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ARC Future Fellow, Griffith University
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Lecturer, ARC Laureate Project, Gilbert + Tobin Centre of Public Law, UNSW
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Professor in Physics, The University of Queensland
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Professor of Psychology, University of Melbourne
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Reader in Sociology, City, University of London
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Lecturer, York St John University
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Assistant Professor of Global Business and Member of the Institute for Latino and Latin American Studies, St Mary's College of California
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Research Fellow, Research School of Psychology, Australian National University
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Associate Lecturer, ANU College of Law – Migration Law Program, Australian National University
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Paediatrician and Associate Professor, UNSW
