Attributing Australia’s economic success to closed borders runs the risk of leaving us with the wrong lesson the next time the things turn down.
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Current responses to the world’s refugee crisis are inhumane and ineffective. We propose five ways forward to help the world’s most vulnerable people.
How did governments get the power to limit people’s movements in the first place? A historian explains.
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.
Continental free trade area’s potential impact includes boosting intra-Africa trade, manufacturing exports, job creation and poverty alleviation.
Trump’s administration plans to ramp up prosecution of unauthorized border crossings. Here’s the story of how it became illegal in the first place.
The Irish prime minister is in Washington for the annual shamrock photo op. But, with Trump in the White House, even usually placid U.S.-Irish relations are a bit dodgy.
Opening borders is the easiest way to tackle global poverty and it would make already wealthy countries richer, too.
In an unequal, globalised world, should we be able to move between states as freely as we can within them?
In the 20th century, governments considered the “total abolition” of passports as an important goal and discussed the issue in several international conferences.
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Associate professor, The University of Queensland
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Program Director, Economic Policy, Grattan Institute
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Professor, History and African American Studies, University of California, Los Angeles
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Distinguished Fellow at Stanford University's Center for African Studies, David M. Rubenstein Fellow at the Global Economy and Development and Africa Growth Initiative at the Brookings Institution, and Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum, Stanford University
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