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Published in: 50.50A separation: Syrian asylum seekers in Germany
Rapidly changing asylum policies, plus legal and bureaucratic hurdles mean that many Syrian asylum seekers in...
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Published in: 50.50Escaping domestic violence: ‘according to the law, you are not here’
Many women survivors of violence in Europe cannot access support services because of their migration status. The...
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Published in: 50.50Trump's slap in the face of Lady Liberty
Will women be turned away from the UN Commission on the Status of Women, to be held in March, in New York? The...
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Published in: 50.50Uganda’s unsung heroes of refugee protection
As responses to refugees and asylum-seekers become a multi-million dollar endeavour globally, everyday acts of...
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Published in: 50.50Precarious migrant motherhood in Lebanon
Ethiopian migrant domestic workers who give birth to children in Lebanon are caught in a trap between the struggle...
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Published in: 50.50Deaths, deportations and arrests: violence against migrants in Morocco
EU policy is blocking routes to Europe for those suffering from the neocolonial and capitalist exploitation and...
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Published in: 50.50Borderlands: words against walls
Both material and figurative walls are shaping our present. Now is the time for the arts and humanities to intervene...
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Published in: 50.50Dangerous journeys: violence against women migrants in Turkey
Syrian women migrants in Turkey face many forms of violence - sexual harassment, forced and early marriage, polygamy...
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Published in: 50.50Invisible fathers of immigration detention in the UK
The British state has regulated relationships between its citizens and certain foreigners since at least the...
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Published in: 50.50'Bogus' asylum seekers? The ethics of truth-telling in the asylum system
The British tabloids and the Home Office are united by their assumption that asylum seekers who lie during their...
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Published in: Shine A LightLost childhoods: age disputes in the UK asylum system
Children seeking asylum in the UK are regularly disbelieved about how old they are and can end up facing harmful,...
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Published in: 50.50Humanitarian Corridors: beyond political gesture
Around 300 people have entered Italy from Lebanon via safe and legal routes pioneered by faith groups. This pilot...
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Published in: 50.50Small, illegal refugee paradise
Hotel “Oniro” is a better option for a fugitive life away from homelessness and another decent station for some...
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Published in: 50.50Arresting the mass detention of migrants: ‘Build trust, not walls’
The pragmatic development of alternatives to detention with civil society at the fore can help to arrest the slide...
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Published in: 50.50The arts and humanities: tackling the challenges of mass displacement
When we let people die rather than provide safety, we face not a ‘refugee crisis’ but a crisis of values. The arts...
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Published in: Shine A LightTheresa May, this is not a ‘crisis of migration’, but a crisis of inhumanity
In a carefully coded speech, the UK Prime Minister categorises people on the move as “threats that we face”...
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Published in: 50.50Refugee women in the UK: Pushing a stone into the sea
From personal experience I know that arrival in the UK for asylum seekers does not signal safety, but reform is a...
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Published in: 50.50Self-immolation and asylum in Australia: ‘This is how tired we are’
The slow violence inflicted upon the 28,621 individuals seeking refuge in Australia waiting on bridging visas to...
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Published in: 50.50Fleeing Europe?
Europe’s dire politics of deterrence is leaving people in a social and legal limbo while others consider escaping...
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Published in: 50.50From the border to the harbour: the Greek tragedy goes on
The inaction of many EU countries in resettling refugees is creating many problems for the Greeks. It's also causing...