International law bars nations from causing environmental harms in other states. Should that include sending thousands of refugees over the border in search of food, water and shelter?
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This excessive spending raises serious raise questions about the government's long-term planning for refugees stuck in limbo.
Group visits and food are prohibited, and visitors must sit in designated chairs apart from their loved ones. Celebrating holidays in detention didn't used to be like this.
UN and NGO reports of 'pushbacks' at borders suggest 2,000 deaths linked to actions supported by EU border agency Frontex, yet EU plans to greatly expand its powers.
Hailed as an Australian hero, Rosemary Kariuki works to connect refugee and migrant women through their strengths and joys — rather than treating them like 'problems' to be fixed.
The dire conditions that brought waves of Cubans to the US in the 1980s and 1990s are again escalating on the communist island, provoked by Trump-era sanctions and the COVID-19 pandemic.
The system turns employers into immigration enforcement officers and generates a population of people without status who live and work in Canada without a clear path to security of presence or livelihood.
Though not a rich country, Colombia is unusually well equipped to handle mass migration because of its own history with political strife and displacement.
Australia has a long history of incarceration of migrants, Indigenous people and those considered 'enemies' of the state. This has formed a 'template' for modern-day quarantine and detention policies.
The human rights act dictates that the UK is obliged to protect asylum seekers. So why is the home secretary ignoring it?
Those who have been released have little financial or social support, confining them to lives of precarity, dependency and impoverishment in our community.
Due to the poor security response of the Nigerian state, insurgency will continue to pose a serious threat to its northeast border communities.
Research suggests that reminding Americans – Democrats and Republicans – of their family history creates empathy for immigrants and more favorable views toward immigration.
Luck and tenacity paid off for some 15,000 migrants who may now pursue their asylum cases in the US But nearly 42,000 cases filed from Mexico under a Trump-era rule were already rejected.
As governments use the pandemic as an excuse to double-down on border closures, refugees are losing vital protection
Time in the camps does not move forward and educated refugees are stuck, without the opportunity to create a path for a better future.
To make sure the COVID rollout is accessible to all people living in Australia, the government should consider a migrant amnesty.
Continued persecution in Myanmar and dire living condition in Bangladesh push Rohingya people to keep seeking refuge.
For many fleeing their home countries, destinations in northern Europe were the ultimate goal. But what happened when they got there?
If history is any guide, the new US president’s forward-thinking approach toward refugee resettlement could help drive Australia’s commitments to refugee protection, too.
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Associate Professor, School of Law, Murdoch University
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Associate Professor in Human Rights and International Law, University of Newcastle
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Adjunct professor, University of Adelaide
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Senior Research Fellow and Lecturer at the South African Research Chair in International Law (SARCIL), University of Johannesburg
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Research Professor, Coventry University
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Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Law, and Deputy Director, Castan Centre for Human Rights Law, Monash University
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Professor of International Migration and Forced Displacement and Director of the Institute for Research into Superdiversity, University of Birmingham
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Adjunct Fellow, Western Sydney University
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Professor of Social Economics, UTS Business School, University of Technology Sydney
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Director, Centre for Refugee Studies & Associate Professor, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Canada
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Emeritus Professor of Sociology, University of Technology Sydney
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Scientia Professor and Director of the Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law, UNSW
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ARC Future Fellow, Griffith University
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Deputy Director of the Castan Centre for Human Rights Law, Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Law, Monash University
