More: Refugee Crisis
Education remains an impossible dream for many refugees and migrants
The older refugee and migrant children get, the less
likely it is that they will get a quality education: less than a quarter of the
world’s...
The European Agenda on Migration: EU needs to sustain progress made over the past 4 years
Ahead of the March European Council, the Commission is today taking
stock of progress made over the past 4 years and setting out the measures...
The normative context in defining ‘refugees’
Contextual challenges in recognizing refugees
The Refugee Convention articulates that for any person to be qualified to be a refugee that person must have been...
On Refugees… And Myanmar: It’s Not Just The Rohingya
... And my life's cold winter that knew no spring; Of my mind so weary and sick and wild, Â Of my heart too sad...
Racism does not need racists
In my classes, I always try to make clear the difference between opinions and facts. It is a fundamental rule, a very simple intellectual...
Migrant deaths in the Mediterranean: The Practicalities of Identification
More than 2,000 migrants lost their lives crossing Mediterranean waters in 2018 — that’s twice the total number of migrant deaths throughout the rest...
Venezuelan refugee crisis and how it is altering the surrounding regions
Venezuela’s migration crisis has been in the news lately and recent UN polls show that nearly 2.3 million have already migrated from their homeland...
Risk of Decreased Relief Funding for Palestinian Refugees
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) recognizes the current United States Department of State’s Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s decision to reduce...
Libya is in no state to rescue migrants in the Mediterranean
Italy’s new government—an unholy alliance of the populist M5S and far-right League parties—careened into office on an uncompromising anti-migrant platform, soliciting the warnings of...
Study: At least 2.5 million migrants were smuggled in 2016
According to the first ever Global Study on Smuggling of Migrants, released by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) on Wednesday, at...