Feb 25, 2021 | Politics & Society
By Antoine Pécoud Increased control of people’s mobility because of COVID-19 might not be so easy to undo. One of the most immediate consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic has been the closure of many international borders. This had a severe impact on migration, and in...
Feb 10, 2020 | Politics & Society
By Amanda Russell Beattie, Patrycja Rozbicka, Gemma Bird & Jelena Obradovic-Wochnik The ‘Refugee Crisis’, or more appropriately, the European Humanitarian Crisis, made headlines within and beyond Europe in 2015 when photographs of individuals arriving on European...
Sep 10, 2018 | Business & Economics, Politics & Society
Can immigration lead to greater democratization in the world? It depends where the migrants go says, Margaret Peters. Maria Armoudian spoke with Peters, author of Trading Barriers: Immigration and the Remaking of Globalization, about her new research into the impact...
Jul 24, 2018 | Politics & Society
By Jose Miguel Cruz Could new-found political turmoil in Nicaragua trigger the next Central American refugee crisis? Central American migrants have long been at the center of what consecutive U.S. administrations have called the immigration “crisis.” Each year,...
Sep 4, 2017 | Politics & Society
Murdoch Stephens started the ‘Doing Our Bit’ campaign to double New Zealand’s refugee quota in June 2013. In this lecture hosted by the Public Policy Institute, he discusses the issue of refugees, resettlement, and campaigning, looking at the projection of...