Refugees
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Refugees are finding it hard to rent a home in Australia for this ‘pervasive’ reason
With rental vacancy rates desperately low, the fight to find a new home is challenging, but for refugees, it is…
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Suella Braverman under pressure to scrap refugee barge plan after legionella found
Asylum seekers removed from Bibby Stockholm after bacteria which can cause serious lung infection found in water Rajeev Syal and Diane Taylor…
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Migrant deaths at sea: the real blame lies with policies created by European states
In response, states have expressed shock and sadness, and have moved to prosecute smugglers associated with the journey. Kerstin Bree Carlson The Conversation…
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Refugee to walk 1,000km to highlight plight of people on bridging visas
A Tamil refugee in regional Victoria is planning to walk 1,000 kilometres to Sydney, to raise awareness of plight of…
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Healing through witnessing: Documenting the stories of Yazidi refugees in Canada
At the Mosaic Refugee Health Clinic in Calgary, we tallied the physical damage, mental trauma and how families were ripped apart.…
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Asylum seekers reflect on decade of offshore detention
The sisters, who did not want their surname published due to personal safety fears, sailed into a political storm over…
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Nauru: Why Australia is funding an empty detention centre
It pauses over a decade of Australia’s processing of asylum seekers on the tiny Pacific nation, with 4,183 people held…
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The two maritime tragedies that could not be more different
Last Wednesday, a fishing trawler carrying more than 700 migrants – primarily from Egypt, Syria and Pakistan – went down…
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What happened to people displaced by the Second World War?
One of the largest of these was the continued displacement of millions of people. IWM In Europe alone it is…
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‘Fortress Europe’ policies blamed for Greece migrant boat tragedy
At least 78 people drowned when a fishing boat overloaded with migrants capsized and sank in the Ionian Sea on…
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Escalating conflict in Sudan may lead to refugee crisis
British nationals who fled Sudan spoke to The Media Line in exclusive interviews, describing agonizing journeys back to the UK…
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‘I’m Armidaleian’: Ezidi refugees put down new roots in New England
When Shiroqe Majid Talo Ali was a child, her friends called her Doctor Shiroque. by Michael Burge; photography by Simon Scott…
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Detained Kurdish activist Kenan Ayaz goes on protest hunger strike
Detained Kurdish activist Kenan Ayaz on Thursday morning went on a protest hunger strike following a district court decision last…
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‘We’d be getting it from both sides, which was horrendous’: Australian political players on our brutal refugee policies
At one point in our discussion he told me: Jordana Silverstein The Conversation He continued, explaining: ‘We’d be getting …
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Tunisian cemeteries fill up as hundreds of dead refugees wash up on coast
Authorities in Tunisia are considering building new cemeteries, as the country runs out of space to bury the dozens of…
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Immigration system set for overhaul in wake of review’s damning findings
Touted as the biggest review of immigration since the 1988 FitzGerald Report, the Parkinson Review covers issues as diverse as…
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