Trump's immigration policies will pick up where Obama's left off
Jan 03, 2017 09:00 am UTC| Insights & Views Law
In 2017, the Trump administration will likely continue and expand the Obama administrations focus on removing immigrants convicted of crimes. Whether Trump will break ground for a wall along the U.S. border with Mexico is...
Refugees in Africa faced bitter disappointments in 2016
Dec 29, 2016 23:07 pm UTC| Insights & Views
This year, 471,000 refugees from the Central African Republic (CAR) voted in presidential elections. They voted even though most of them live in exile in Cameroon, the Republic of the Congo and Chad, having fled an ongoing...
Europe's migration 'partnerships' with Africa need a new direction in 2017
Dec 29, 2016 12:36 pm UTC| Insights & Views
2016 was the deadliest year for migrants crossing the Mediterranean; more than 4,800 people died on their way to Europe, despite the fact that fewer attempted the journey than in previous years. While European migration...
Why Britain's public finances will suffer if Brexit reduces migration
Dec 09, 2016 11:57 am UTC| Insights & Views Economy
Brexit will have high fiscal costs and a large part of that will be a consequence of what happens to migration numbers. That was the conclusion widely drawn from the Office for Budget Responsibilitys most recent Economic...
Backlash prompts Merkel to take hard stance against refugee crisis
Dec 06, 2016 13:22 pm UTC| Commentary Politics
This week a police investigation revealed that a German girl named Maria Ladenburger, 19, who was raped and murdered in Freiburg, Germany, died in the hands of an Afghan teenage refugee, who came illegally in Germany in...
Why literature matters in debate about race and immigrants
Dec 01, 2016 01:48 am UTC| Insights & Views Life
The people who voted for Donald Trump did so for a variety of reasons, but chief among them was the sense of their having been economically abandoned for several decades. Trump has promised to restore their economic...
Why Europe's 'fortress' approach to migration crisis won't work
Nov 17, 2016 23:16 pm UTC| Insights & Views
Between January and November 2015, approximately 1.5 million migrants reached the European Union through the Mediterranean Sea. This high level of migration continued in 2016. Several European countries that previously...
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