Migration
-
India’s migrant crisis pointed to another problem – its lack of shelter homes
On March 24, when the government announced a nationwide lockdown to prevent the spread of coronavirus, India was served a…
Read More » -
Thessaloniki’s Jews: ‘We can’t let this be forgotten; if it’s forgotten, it will die’
Five centuries after they were expelled from Spain and eight decades after they were almost annihilated in the Holocaust, the…
Read More » -
EU can’t have it both ways with Turkey
For the past several months, the bloc has adopted a strategy of mild confrontation over Turkey’s belligerence in the Mediterranean…
Read More » -
Why has a two-year-old girl lived her entire life in Australian immigration detention?
The father of one of them says he hasn’t been allowed to visit his daughter for months, and amid the…
Read More » -
Chinese embassy accuses Australia of violating international law after Hong Kong visa extensions announced
Australia will offer a path to permanent residency for thousands of Hong Kong citizens, while suspending its extradition agreement with…
Read More » -
Australia set to offer safe haven visas to Hong Kong residents
The move will make Australia the second of the Five Eyes partners to offer Hong Kong residents refuge after British…
Read More » -
Simon Cheng: UK asylum for ex-consulate worker ‘tortured in China’
Simon Cheng, a Hong Kong citizen, was detained on a business trip to mainland China for 15 days last August.…
Read More » -
Coronavirus has accelerated Lebanon’s economic collapse, and foreign maids are paying the price
Women and girls get out with their bags before the driver takes off. Authors ABC News They are foreign maids,…
Read More » -
Searches, Seizures and Sanctions in Australia’s Immigration Detention Camps
Pursuant to an amendment to the Migration Act (Cth), non-citizens who have committed criminal offences in Australia are now subject,…
Read More » -
The African refugees and migrants trapped inside Yemen’s war
Despite six years of war and hardship in Yemen, Somali refugee Bader Hassan had stuck it out hoping for a…
Read More » -
We can’t forget about humanity’s most vulnerable
The COVID-19 pandemic is exposing and exacerbating one of our greatest weaknesses – the treatment of refugees and people seeking…
Read More » -
Forcibly displaced now account for 1% of humanity – UN report
Almost 80 million people are refugees or internally displaced, with the number doubling in the past decade The number of…
Read More » -
Forced labour, sexual exploitation and forced marriage: modern slavery in Australia hides in plain sight
It occurs as forced labour, sexual exploitation and forced marriage. Alexandra Baxter The Conversation These situations rarely involve the actual…
Read More » -
Racism in Germany: A Chinese-American reckoning
I hadn’t seen him coming. Beina Xu Deutsche Welle The man was short, stocky, roughly my father’s age. Suddenly he…
Read More » -
A refugee’s story: ‘The execution order came for my mum’
But she never expected the speech in 2000 to travel far and wide, resulting in an order for her to…
Read More » -
Calls to remove ‘racist’ Gandhi statue in Leicester
The online petition accuses the Indian independence campaigner of being “a fascist, racist and sexual predator”. BBC Last year, students…
Read More »