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...
Today's immigration laws have teeth, and their bite is toxic for people seeking asylum
Oct 04, 2016 09:02 am UTC| Insights & Views Law
As a dock city, Liverpool has served as a gateway to the sugar trade, slavery and global transport for hundreds of years. It has long been a city of immigrants from Ireland, India and Pakistan to Somalia, Ethiopia and...
We're failing to solve the world's 'wicked problems.' Here's a better approach
Oct 04, 2016 08:28 am UTC| Insights & Views
We live in a world burdened by large-scale problems that refuse to go away: the refugee crisis; terrorism; rising sea levels; frequent floods, droughts and wildfires; not to mention persistent inequality and violation of...
Immigrants told to leave UK face huge hike in fees to appeal decisions
Sep 28, 2016 16:42 pm UTC| Insights & Views Law
Immigrants appealing through the courts for a right to remain in the UK will soon face a huge increase in procedural costs after the government announced fee hikes of over 500% for some types of appeal through the...
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