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2024 Rural Australians for Refugees National Conference, Victoria, Australia
Australia is renowned for its harsh treatment of refugees and asylum seekers despite being a multicultural country with a long-term refugee resettlement program. In November... Read More
Call For Proposals: ARC-UNHCR Conference on Refugee Studies and Forced Displacement 2025
The ASEAN Research Center at the Asia School of Business is excited to announce the fifth iteration of the ARC-UNHCR Conference on Refugee Studies and... Read More
New UK Government Rescinds ‘Rwanda Plan’ But Cruel System Remains
After their landslide victory in the 2024 UK General Election, one of the first policy announcements from the Labour government was to drop proposals to... Read More
Listening to child refugees and asylum seekers in Australia-what matters most
Background In 1992, Australia adopted a policy of mandatory detention of people arriving in the country without a valid visa. This policy was targeted towards... Read More
The Greater Manchester Migrant Destitution Fund: Promoting Dignity amidst the Hostile Environment
The Greater Manchester Migrant Destitution Fund supports people who are forced into destitution by their immigration status with cash grants of £80 per month. The... Read More
Freedom of expression at risk as US agency ends COVID-era interpretation services
Introduction In a move that has caused much anger and confusion, the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) is no longer providing free interpretation... Read More
Expanding Humanitarian Parole
In January of 2023, the Biden Administration formally announced its new approach to border enforcement and immigration policy. Facing the inevitable end of Title 42,... Read More
A Call to Action: Pass the Afghan Adjustment Act
When Kabul fell to the Taliban in August 2021, a humanitarian crisis ensued that was 20 years in the making. We saw the shocking images... Read More
What Have We Become?: The UK Begins the Offshore Processing of People Seeking Asylum
“What has become of us when it is we who now commit such crimes?”. The Australian novelist Richard Flanagan posed this question in his Foreword... Read More
Australia’s current refugee policies and obligations under international refugee law
The Migration and Maritime Powers Legislation Amendment (Resolving the Asylum Legacy Caseload) Act 2014 (Cth) (MMPLA) significantly changed how Australia treats asylum seekers, especially those... Read More