In the mid-1980s Germany was wracked by a toxic 'Asyldebatte' that bears similarities to what's happening today.
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6 million Jews were killed in the Holocaust. What happened then, and how we can keep to the promise – “never again”?
Gibraltar's decision to terminate permission for the Aquarius to conduct operations in the Mediterranean is the latest example of national politics undermining rescue at sea.
Accessing the right information in a timely manner is essential, but difficult for newly arrived refugees. Information varies, plus there are language barriers and geographical complications.
Canada's opposition Conservatives are borrowing from European populists in stoking fears about asylum-seekers and migrants. Here's why that's so dangerous.
Judith Troeth on the Liberal party’s woman problem and asylum seekers.
Troeth says the party should adopt quotas to rectify the "abysmally low numbers" of Liberal women in parliament.
Boochani bears witness to the deterioration of the human spirit on Manus Island, where he's been detained with hundreds of other asylum seekers for the last five years.
The Rohingya have long seen Bangladesh as a place of refuge from persecution in Myanmar.
On top of boosting South Sudan's development, these groups are showcasing what refugees can accomplish in the US.
Behrouz Boochani wrote his memoir of incarceration on Manus Island one text message at a time. Translating this work of 'horrific surrealism' from Farsi to English was a profoundly philosophical experience.
One of the world's worst refugee crises is still unfolding, and conditions on the ground have barely improved.
New research shows that refugees in regional Queensland have found it very easy to make friends and feel safe and comfortable raising children in their communities.
All Eritrean men between the ages of 18 – 50 have to serve in the army for more than 20 years, forcing thousands to flee. But things look set to change.
Last month's epic cave rescue has drawn attention to the issue of statelessness in Thailand - a crisis the country is trying to resolve urgently, especially for stateless children.
States' approaches to challenges of forced displacement and migration often fail to acknowledge a sometimes competing, but always essential, consideration – the basic dignity of the human person.
Reham and her family are among an estimated 1.5m Syrian refugees living in limbo in Lebanon.
Elin Ersson was accused of frightening children – but it's more likely that she inspired them.
Even when federal contractors stir public outrage, the government probably should be under fire.
There are at least 400,000 stateless people living in Thailand – many of them young, like Adul. Here's what their lives are like.
Newly proposed 'controlled centres' in the EU must not breach migrants' human rights.
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Senior Lecturer in International Law and Human Rights, University of Newcastle
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Associate Professor, School of Law, Murdoch University
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Alex Reilly is a Friend of The Conversation.
Director of the Public Law and Policy Research Unit, Adelaide Law School, University of Adelaide
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Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Law, and Associate, Castan Centre for Human Rights Law, Monash University
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Reader in International Migration and Forced Displacement and Deputy Director of the Institute for Research into Superdiversity, University of Birmingham
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Research Professor, Coventry University
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Research Fellow and Lecturer at the South African Research Chair in International Law (SARCIL), University of Johannesburg
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Honorary Fellow, University of Melbourne
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Professor of Sociology, University of Technology Sydney
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ARC Future Fellow, Griffith University
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Research Associate, Andrew & Renata Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law, UNSW
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Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations, Coventry University
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Adjunct Professor, Australian Catholic University
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Scientia Professor and Director of the Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law, UNSW
