Australia shores up defences against asylum seekers as US deal provides escape for refugees
Nov 13, 2016 16:03 pm UTC| Insights & Views
The cordon around Australias border has been pulled tighter to deter people smugglers as the government finally unveils its agreement for the United States to resettle refugees from Nauru and Manus Island. Extra navy,...
Migrants travel to the UK for a new life – but it's not always a healthier one
Oct 30, 2016 23:42 pm UTC| Insights & Views
As the Calais refugee camp is closed by French authorities, many of the migrants who have been living there will be looking to finally travel to the UK. While there has been much discussion of the political matters...
Challenging the ‘birthright lottery’ can provide a better way to view refugees
Oct 25, 2016 18:01 pm UTC| Insights & Views
One of the great obstacles in securing more humane approaches to refugee issues is the perception on the part of politicians that harsh treatment of refugees is a vote-winner with at least some of their...
As the Calais camp is demolished, a hidden crisis continues for refugees living in squalor
Oct 25, 2016 11:25 am UTC| Insights & Views
Among the detritus of the squalid Calais camp lie empty tear gas shells, recently fired by the police. They signify the physical violence that some refugees will suffer in the coming days as the so-called Jungle is...
After the Calais Jungle: is there a long-term solution? Views from France and Britain
Oct 25, 2016 10:40 am UTC| Insights & Views
Ever since the French president François Hollande went to Calais in late September 2016 and promised that the migrant camp on its outskirts, known as the Jungle, would be dismantled, its residents have been...
Accusations of deliberate, cruel abuse of refugee children must prompt a more humane approach
Oct 18, 2016 00:47 am UTC| Insights & Views
Australias mandatory detention of young people offshore, as part of its asylum-seeker policies, has been frequently cited as evidence of a failure to ensure childrens rights. However, two new reports, from the ABCs Four...
Turkey's great challenge: integrating 2.7 million Syrian refugees
Oct 13, 2016 08:08 am UTC| Insights & Views
Since the outbreak of the civil war in Syria, millions have fled across the border to Turkey. Turkeys open-door migration policy has seen the number of registered Syrians in Turkey reach 2,730,000. This has led to rapid...
Johannesburg in a time of darkness: Ivan Vladislavić’s new memoir reminds us of the city’s fragility
Economist Chris Richardson on an ‘ugly’ inflation result and the coming budget
Why Germany ditched nuclear before coal – and why it won’t go back
Labour can afford to be far more ambitious with its economic policies – voters are on board
Sudan: civil war stretches into a second year with no end in sight