When visa services are run in the interests of profit rather than border governance, corrupt tactics can be used to benefit the providers’ bottom line.
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Asylum seekers are not permanent residents and have to pay full fees for university courses. Just as doctors led the campaign to get kids off Nauru, academics can advocate for access to education.
In the film Below, a fight club is set up in a fictional, remote immigration detention centre. However the film’s shock tactics often feel manufactured, and risk exploiting the refugee crisis as mere backdrop.
Trump has expanded and escalated the most punitive policies he inherited from his predecessors.
Children can be especially vulnerable to being wrongly subjected to immigration enforcement actions.
Migration governance without immigration detention is desirable and achievable. Eliminating all detention will universally benefit citizens, migrants and everyone in between.
Reported abuses include serving moldy bread, delaying medical care and subjecting detainees to sexual harassment, sexual assault and bullying.
Changes to immigration rules have left migrants without family and friends in the UK trapped in immigration detention – despite being granted bail.
Speechless is an opera written in response to the Australian Human Rights Commission's 2014 report into children in immigration detention.
Alleged 'enemy combatants' held at Guantánamo Bay who went on hunger strikes to protest their indefinite detention were force-fed by the US military. Today, ICE is force-feeding immigrant detainees.
Some young people are taken to immigration detention as they approach their 18th birthday.
Australia is proposing some of the toughest citizenship stripping laws in the world as it steps up efforts to curb extremist attacks - but the proposed law could run into significant legal hurdles
Psychotropic medication is 'pharmaceutical violence' against migrant children and other incarcerated youth throughout the United States. Drug addiction is one consequence.
New data shows 73 pregnant women were detained for immigration reasons between July 2016 and November 2017.
The UK government presents itself as a pioneer in tackling modern slavery, but it doesn't allow victims to remain legally in the UK. Time is apt for the system to be overhauled.
While the UK does not indefinitely detain children, there are cases where minors are held – and in extreme cases, separated from their parents.
Over 200 children are still in asylum seeker detention within Australia and offshore – so why aren't we more outraged about that?
The experiences of women in Canada's immigration detention system reveal emotional distress, and even violence, before, during and after incarceration.
Why some women detained in Yarl's Wood Immigration Removal Centre are on hunger strike.
Several factors play a part when determining what kind of risk high levels of mould exposure can pose to human health.
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Lecturer, University of Toronto
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Director of the Centre for Women’s Mental Health at the Royal Women’s Hospital and Professor of Psychiatry, University of Melbourne
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Professor of Bioethics & Medicine, Sydney Health Ethics, University of Sydney
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Professor of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, University of Sydney
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Senior Research Associate, Andrew & Renata Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law, UNSW Law School, UNSW
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