Migration
-
Legacy boat arrivals: Is a decade of policy paralysis about to be addressed?
Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus says the Government will shortly announce a ‘humane resolution’ to the situation of 31,000 legacy boat arrivals who…
Read More » -
Resettlement for People from Nauru to New Zealand Needs Urgent Fast Tracking to End Cruelty of Offshore Detention
Amnesty International understands that four more people were due to arrive in Aotearoa New Zealand today after spending years in…
Read More » -
Eradicating Modern Slavery in Australia
In 2018, the Modern Slavery Act was introduced to reduce the risks of labour exploitation in Australia. Freya Dinshaw and Professor Susan…
Read More » -
Thousands of Ukrainian refugees living in hotels as councils struggle to deal with rising homelessness
Thousands of Ukrainian refugees are being housed in hotels as councils struggle to deal with a rising number becoming homeless. Holly Bancroft…
Read More » -
Spanish police arrest 43 in crackdown on migrant worker exploitation
Spanish police they have broken up a criminal group that exploited undocumented migrant workers in the agricultural sector, mainly from…
Read More » -
US Embassy in Cuba resumes visa and consular services
At least 20,000 visas a year will likely be issued, primarily to Cubans trying to reach family members in the…
Read More » -
Legal challenge to Australia’s indefinite immigration detention could determine freedom of hundreds
Advocates believe Egyptian man’s case paves way to possibly overturn 2004 decision upholding indefinite detention by Migration Act Paul Karp…
Read More » -
‘I can see my family again’: More than 19,000 refugees to qualify for permanent residency
The change will mean the refugees would be able to freely leave the country and return, to access secure work…
Read More » -
‘Hardly anyone is getting off’: despite Labor’s promises, refugees needing urgent medical care remain on Nauru
An Afghan refugee in offshore detention since 2013 has had two doctors’ referrals for overseas treatment, but has not been…
Read More » -
Harvard University appoints Claudine Gay as school’s first Black president
Gay is the first person of color and the second woman to hold the role of Harvard University’s president. Amanda…
Read More » -
Should Australia create ‘settlement cities’ for refugees? Here’s why some say yes
Afghan refugee Hamid Arfany is living in the Victorian city of Dandenong and says he has felt welcome in the…
Read More » -
Behrouz Boochani was told he would never set foot in Australia. He just did
Kurdish refugee and writer Behrouz Boochani has landed in Australia years after the previous government insisted he would never be…
Read More » -
Electronic monitoring in community could reduce immigration detention, document states
Electronic monitoring is being considered to help clear the “intractable” caseload of people in immigration detention, according to a document released…
Read More » -
What is fated is impossible to escape
Tο πεπρωμένο φυγείν αδύνατον – The Temple of Boom Downunder “The only coarser ship that ever passed this way was…
Read More » -
Sayed fled Afghanistan, found safety in Australia and built a life. Then it was snatched away
Refugee was turned away from citizenship ceremony and became trapped in bureaucratic nightmare thanks to authorities’ mistrust of Afghan identity…
Read More » -
Denying trafficking not the way to protect the Asylum system
Hannah Dickinson from the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre (ASRC) has penned an article in this Journal that is full of distraction and…
Read More »