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  • 8 Feb 2018
    • Migration

    Migration and border policy links: Global Compact zero draft, Australia as an innovation nation, and more

    Erin Harris
    <p>Links and updates from across the migration and border policy field.</p>
  • 1 Feb 2018
    • Australian immigration
    • Migration

    Migration and border policy links: revoking citizenship, unrest in Turkey, and more

    Erin Harris
    Links and updates from across the migration and border policy field.
  • 25 Jan 2018
    • Migration

    Migration and border policy links: US government shutdown, the Global Compact, and more

    Erin Harris
    Links and updates from across the migration and border policy field.
  • 18 Jan 2018
    • Migration

    Migration and border policy links: Stories from Manus, journeys to Europe and more

    Erin Harris
    Links and updates from across the migration and border policy field.
  • 14 Dec 2017
    • Migration

    Migration and border policy links: Libya slave trade, Facebook people smugglers, and more

    Erin Harris
    Migration links compiled by The Interpreter team.
  • 23 Nov 2017
    • Migration

    Migration and border policy links: Manus, labour migration and more

    Rachael Buckland
    Rachael Buckland, a Research Associate with the Migration and Border Policy Project, with links on developments across the field.
  • 16 Nov 2017
    • Migration

    Migration and border policy links: Inside Manus, Gulf state workers, violence against women and more

    Rachael Buckland
    Rachael Buckland, a Research Associate with the Migration and Border Policy Project, with links on developments across the field.
  • 9 Nov 2017
    • Migration

    Migration and border policy links: Manus, stateless minorities, the next steps on Myanmar and more

    Rachael Buckland
    Rachael Buckland, a Research Associate in the Migration and Border Policy Project, with links on developments across the field.
  • 2 Nov 2017
    • Migration

    Migration and border policy links: Manus, climate change, US policy and more

    Rachael Buckland
    New Zealand’s new government is reported to be considering creating a visa category to assist those displaced by climate change.
  • 26 Oct 2017
    • Migration

    Migration and border policy links: Rohingya crisis, deportations, people-smuggling and more

    Rachael Buckland
    Rachael Buckland, a Research Associate with the Migration and Border Policy Project, with links on developments across the field.
  • 19 Oct 2017
    • Migration

    Migration and border policy links: UN inaction on Rohingya, offshore processing, self-reliance and more

    Rachael Buckland
    Rachael Buckland, a Research Associate with the Lowy Institute’s Migration and Border Policy Project, with links on developments across the field.
  • 12 Oct 2017
    • Migration

    Migration and border policy links: Nauru’s growth, worker pathways, remittances and more

    Rachael Buckland
    Nauru's growth outlook, French resettlement numbers, irregular Bangladeshi migration and more.
  • 5 Oct 2017
    • Asylum seekers and refugees
    • Migration

    Migration & border policy links: What the US wants, Afghanistan, Rohingya repatriation and more

    Rachael Buckland
    This week's links also include a tracking matrix for patterns of displacement and a lecture on how migration has shaped New Zealand.
  • 21 Sep 2017
    • Migration

    Migration and border policy links: Cox’s Bazar, refugee swaps, illegal deportation and more

    Rachael Buckland
    The UNHCR assisting the voluntary return of Somali refugees from Yemen, the relationship between migration and sustainable development, and more.
  • 14 Sep 2017
    • Migration

    Migration & border links: Myanmar, DACA repeal, contemporary displacement and more

    Rachael Buckland
    This week's links also include discussion of a private sponsorship model for refugees and the economics of migration.
  • 8 Sep 2017
    • Migration

    Australia’s long history of offshore detention

    Claire Higgins
    In 1978, then-Immigration and Ethnic Affairs Secretary Lou Engledow said detention wouldn't 'stop boat arrival nor will it produce in itself a final answer'.
  • 7 Sep 2017
    • Migration

    Migration and border policy links: Myanmar, global compact on migration, DACA and more

    Rachael Buckland
    This weeks links include the crisis in Myanmar, ongoing preparations for the global compact on migration and the end of the DACA program in the US.
  • 31 Aug 2017
    • Asylum seekers and refugees
    • Migration

    Migration & border policy links: Merkel and no regrets, Hurricane Harvey and more

    Rachael Buckland
    This week's links also include lessons from Canada and Facebook acts on people smugglers' posts.
  • 24 Aug 2017
    • Migration

    Migration & border policy links: Trump’s wall, a Sudanese story, London’s rough sleepers targeted and more

    Rachael Buckland
    These week's links also include asylum seeker news from Nauru, shoring up the borders in Bangladesh, and climate change refugees from PNG’s Carteret Islands.
  • 17 Aug 2017
    • Asylum seekers and refugees
    • Migration

    Migration & border policy links: Manus High Court ruling, H-2B shortage, Turkey’s Syrians and more

    Rachael Buckland
    This week's links also include a comparison of various citizenship laws and India's reported plan to deport 40,000 Rohingya Muslims.
  • 10 Aug 2017
    • Migration

    Migration and border policy links: Trump-Turnbull transcript, trafficking in the Gulf and more

    Rachael Buckland
    This weeks links include the death of an asylum seeker on Manus Island, the RAISE act, and refugees, migration and trafficking in the Gulf.
  • 4 Aug 2017
    • Europe
    • Migration

    Humanitarian corridors: Safe passage but only for a few

    Claire Higgins
    There is a counter-narrative emerging in Europe’s approach to irregular migration, even as EU governments seek ways to discourage desperate journeys to Italy.
  • 3 Aug 2017
    • Migration

    Migration and border policy links: RAISE Act, Haitian immigrants in the US, ‘nexification’, and more

    Rachael Buckland
    This weeks links include a consultation paper on simplifying Australian visa arrangements, and distribution and characteristics of Haitian immigrants in US.
  • 27 Jul 2017
    • Migration

    Migration and Border Policy links: UNHCR, McKinsey's in Europe, Mediterranean migration and more

    Erin Harris
    This week's links include Australia's warning on UK visa changes, the plight of undocumented workers in the US and data on the Eastern Mediterranean Route.
  • 6 Jul 2017
    • Migration

    Migration & border policy links: Italy overwhelmed, Thailand’s crackdown, US travel ban and more

    Rachael Buckland
    This week's links also include refugees heading home in the Central African Republic and the UK's immigration amnesty for Grenfell Tower fire survivors.
  • 5 Jul 2017
    • China
    • Migration

    How China views the plight of refugees

    Merriden Varrall
    The Chinese position is that its most valuable contribution to the global humanitarian good is the development and stability of China itself.
  • 29 Jun 2017
    • Migration

    Migration & border policy links: Counting Australians, remittances, trafficking and more

    Rachael Buckland
    This week's links also include debates and discussion on social protection and education for migrants and a case against the Home Office.
  • 16 Jun 2017
    • Migration

    Proposed citizenship test would forgo a ‘fair go for all’

    Khanh Hoang
    The Bill proposes to give the Minister an array of discretionary powers to refuse an application for citizenship.
  • 18 May 2017
    • Migration

    Migration and border policy links: Theresa May’s policy promises, private sponsorship, the global slave trade and more

    Rachael Buckland
    This week's links include private sponsorship plans in Australia, the increased rate of US federal immigration arrests, immigration in the UK election, and concerns about a growing slave trade.
  • 16 May 2017
    • Migration

    The risks and rewards of private humanitarian and refugee sponsorship

    Khanh Hoang
    Private sponsorship and other pathways should be in addition, not an alternative, to existing refugee places provided by governments.
  • 12 May 2017
    • Indonesia
    • Migration

    Refugee detention in Indonesia

    Thomas Brown , Antje Missbach
    An unclear policy framework, resistance to community housing expansion, and refugees being unsupported and unable to work continue to impede progress.
  • 4 May 2017
    • Migration

    Migration and Border Policy links: ASEAN fail, the Refuge fuss, SEZs and more

    Rachael Buckland
    European and Australian approaches to border control, 'Refuge', trends in US H-1B visas and more.
  • 27 Apr 2017
    • Migration

    Migration and Border Policy links: The ‘El Chapo’ bill, displacement figures, Turkey’s diaspora and more

    Rachael Buckland
    Why Trump's border wall won't happen, 'hot spot' approaches to irregular migration in Italy and Greece, and more.
  • 20 Apr 2017
    • Migration

    Migration and Border Policy links: Work visas, Manus shooting, the fate of Sumte and more

    Rachael Buckland
    Duterte's visit to the Gulf, climate change and population movement, Global Compacts and more.
  • 19 Apr 2017
    • Migration

    457 visas: All Australia had to do was hold the line

    Henry Sherrell
    Instead of grasping the opportunity presented by anti-migrant sentiment across the world, the Turnbull Government yesterday decided to join the party.
  • 13 Apr 2017
    • Migration

    Migration and Border Policy links: Skill shortages, Mosul, the UK labour market and more

    Rachael Buckland
    How refugee health workers could fulfil skill shortages, how many foreign nationals make up the UK labour market, and more.
  • 11 Apr 2017
    • Trade
    • India-Australia Relations
    • Migration

    Lessons from India on migration’s role in trade policy

    Henry Sherrell
    Australia would be well placed if it established a set of principles for migration when negotiating trade and other deals.
  • 6 Apr 2017
    • Migration

    Migration and Border Policy links: Who benefits from Nauru, refugee safe houses, climate displacement and more

    Rachael Buckland
    The US Department of Homeland Security has begun fingerprinting and photographing refugees on Manus Island as part of the US-Australia refugee deal.
  • 30 Mar 2017
    • Migration

    Migration and border policy links: Mixing it up in Yiwu, Zampa law, sanctuary cities and more

    Italy's new Zampa law, South Sudan refugee count and US sanctuary cities square up for a fight with the Trump administration.
  • 30 Mar 2017
    • Migration

    Skilled migration: Solving the puzzle

    Massimiliano Tani
    The division of responsibility between immigration and employment departments may generate discrepancies.
  • 27 Mar 2017
    • Migration

    What happens to failed asylum seekers?

    Jay Song , Neil Cuthbert
    Forcibly returning unwanted migrants is not only intuitively unpleasant, it is also one of the most difficult areas in the immigration policies of liberal states.
  • 17 Mar 2017
    • Migration
    • European Union

    The EU shouldn’t strike a Turkey-style deal with Libya

    Casper Wuite
    The EU should use the tools at its disposal to find short-term fixes to the crisis; a Turkey-style deal is clearly not that.
  • 16 Mar 2017
    • Migration

    Migration and Border Policy links: Syrian small businesses, EU-Turkey deal, education by phone and more

    Syrian refugees opening for business in Turkey, the impact of the EU-Turkey deal on asylum seekers, teachers using mobile phones as education tools in refugee camps and more.
  • 2 Mar 2017
    • Migration

    Migration and Border Policy links: Britain’s impossible target, Sth Korea’s policy,‘genuine refugees’ and more

    Which countries host the most refugees, who is considered a ‘genuine refugee’ under Australian law, and more.
  • 28 Feb 2017
    • Migration

    US moves closer to Australia's treatment of those on wrong side of migration law

    Linda Kirk
    From an Australian perspective the measures that flow from the US President's 25 January executive order are neither novel nor remarkable.
  • 23 Feb 2017
    • Migration

    Migration and Border Policy links: US ructions, Yemen, refugee return and more

    The latest news and analysis from around the globe.
  • 16 Feb 2017
    • Migration

    Migration and Border Policy links: IOM's anti-trafficking app, Kenya’s High Court ruling and more

    Kenyan refugee camp to stay open, plenty of new research into migrants' paths and why Afghan refugees left Pakistan last year.
  • 6 Feb 2017
    • Migration
    • The Trump Presidency

    Losing the plot on immigration policy

    Peter Hughes
    If immigration policy is now about winning domestic political points - to the exclusion of all else - we can expect much more unnecessary human suffering.
  • 6 Feb 2017
    • Migration
    • The Trump Presidency

    Trump's travel ban likely to go to US Supreme Court

    Linda Kirk
    Legal experts are divided on whether the executive order violates the Constitution and federal law.
  • 2 Feb 2017
    • Migration

    Migration and Border Policy links: The US immigration ban, the Calais camp saga, displacement tracking systems, and more

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