<p>Links and updates from across the migration and border policy field.</p>

Links and updates from across the migration and border policy field.

Links and updates from across the migration and border policy field.

Links and updates from across the migration and border policy field.

Migration links compiled by The Interpreter team.

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

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

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

New Zealand’s new government is reported to be considering creating a visa category to assist those displaced by climate change.

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

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

Nauru's growth outlook, French resettlement numbers, irregular Bangladeshi migration and more.

This week's links also include a tracking matrix for patterns of displacement and a lecture on how migration has shaped New Zealand.

The UNHCR assisting the voluntary return of Somali refugees from Yemen, the relationship between migration and sustainable development, and more.

This week's links also include discussion of a private sponsorship model for refugees and the economics of migration.

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'.

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.

This week's links also include lessons from Canada and Facebook acts on people smugglers' posts.

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.

This week's links also include a comparison of various citizenship laws and India's reported plan to deport 40,000 Rohingya Muslims.

This weeks links include the death of an asylum seeker on Manus Island, the RAISE act, and refugees, migration and trafficking in the Gulf.

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.

This weeks links include a consultation paper on simplifying Australian visa arrangements, and distribution and characteristics of Haitian immigrants in US.

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.

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.

The Chinese position is that its most valuable contribution to the global humanitarian good is the development and stability of China itself.

This week's links also include debates and discussion on social protection and education for migrants and a case against the Home Office.

The Bill proposes to give the Minister an array of discretionary powers to refuse an application for citizenship.

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.

Private sponsorship and other pathways should be in addition, not an alternative, to existing refugee places provided by governments.

An unclear policy framework, resistance to community housing expansion, and refugees being unsupported and unable to work continue to impede progress.

European and Australian approaches to border control, 'Refuge', trends in US H-1B visas and more.

Why Trump's border wall won't happen, 'hot spot' approaches to irregular migration in Italy and Greece, and more.

Duterte's visit to the Gulf, climate change and population movement, Global Compacts and more.

Instead of grasping the opportunity presented by anti-migrant sentiment across the world, the Turnbull Government yesterday decided to join the party.

How refugee health workers could fulfil skill shortages, how many foreign nationals make up the UK labour market, and more.

Australia would be well placed if it established a set of principles for migration when negotiating trade and other deals.

The US Department of Homeland Security has begun fingerprinting and photographing refugees on Manus Island as part of the US-Australia refugee deal.

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

The division of responsibility between immigration and employment departments may generate discrepancies.

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.

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.

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.

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

From an Australian perspective the measures that flow from the US President's 25 January executive order are neither novel nor remarkable.

The latest news and analysis from around the globe.

Kenyan refugee camp to stay open, plenty of new research into migrants' paths and why Afghan refugees left Pakistan last year.

If immigration policy is now about winning domestic political points - to the exclusion of all else - we can expect much more unnecessary human suffering.

Legal experts are divided on whether the executive order violates the Constitution and federal law.