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Trump touted his administration’s economic successes and laid out his immigration plan in an 80-minute speech to Congress. Our experts weigh in.
While comprehensive immigration reform may be out of reach, giving immigrants who came to the US as children citizenship not only has broad political support but makes economic sense too.
Trump’s anti-Haitian rhetoric ignores a long pattern of migration from Haiti to the U.S., often driven by American meddling in Haitian affairs. Today, the two nations are irrevocably bound by history.
In 1921 the US imposed strict immigration quotas on Australians and detained the excess arrivals in terrible conditions. Contrast this with today’s treatment of asylum seekers on Manus Island and Nauru.
Trump’s decision to end the DACA program, as well as his support for a bill that would drastically curb legal immigration, would hurt the US workers he says he’s trying to help.
Joint border security measures between the US and Mexico have created a tough situation for those who fled violence back home decades ago.
Australia’s GPI, a broad measure of national wellbeing, has stalled since 1974. So what has been the point of huge population and GDP growth since then if we and our environment are no better off?
The latest statistics show Australia’s population growth in the last decade has been significantly higher than in other developed countries.
With the winding back of government support for housing, ‘gateway’ suburbs that have in the past accepted and supported recent immigrants are becoming increasingly unaffordable.
Following through on campaign promises to forcibly evict several million illegal immigrants, Trump has set in motion a plan to deport those with criminal records. But doing so won’t come cheap.
Trump’s plans to build a wall with Mexico and deport millions of people in the US illegally cast immigrants as an economic threat to Americans. The evidence suggests otherwise.
There are double standards underlying the difficulties faced by Afghan asylum seekers in the West.
The UK welcomes a woeful amount of Syrian refugees.
A team of legal scholars breaks down the factors that will determine which immigrants are most vulnerable for deportation under the new administration.
States once used their constitutional authority to argue in defense of slavery. Today, states can make a similar argument to protect immigrants from deportation, writes a legal scholar.
A public health researcher and advocate explains how immigration raids can impact mental and physical health, and trigger a breakdown of trust and safety in communities across the US.
Many evangelicals are backing Trump, so why hasn’t he caught fire with Mormons? A scholar of Mormons’ political beliefs counts the ways.
Violence, poverty and oppression in Honduras are causing thousands to flee to the US. Will Trump own the role of US foreign policy in creating these problems?
As the camp for migrants and refugees outside Calais is dismantled, two academics from either side of the Channel look at what will happen next.
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Professor, Department of Politics, University of Liverpool
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Senior Lecturer in Public Policy, Lancaster University
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Professor of Law and Government, Durham University, Durham University
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Assistant Professor, Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations, Coventry University
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Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of California, Merced
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Professor of Law, Conflict and Global Development, University of Reading
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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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Professor of Social Economics, UTS Business School, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor of Criminology, Lancaster University
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Professor of Economics, University of Bristol
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Associate Professor, Institute for Culture and Society & School of Humanities and Communication Arts, Western Sydney University
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