Refugees and political asylum

The United States has always been a land of immigrants and a destination for refugees.

No issue in the Arab-Israeli conflict has proven more intractable than the status of the Palestinian refugees.

With over 240 million migrants in the world, including over 65 million forced migrants and refugees, states have turned to draconian measures to stem the flow of irregular migration, including the criminalization of migration itself.

"e;A revelation for digital researchers and a provocation for migration scholars.

"e;A revelation for digital researchers and a provocation for migration scholars.

With over 240 million migrants in the world, including over 65 million forced migrants and refugees, states have turned to draconian measures to stem the flow of irregular migration, including the criminalization of migration itself.

A rare look at the brute-force mechanics of deportation in the United States.

In 1904, the first Scandinavian settlers moved onto the Spirit Lake Dakota Indian Reservation.

While the Naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba is well-known for its infamous prison camp, few people are aware of its prior use as an immigrant detention center for Haitian and Cuban refugees.

A surprisingly understudied topic in international relations is gender-based asylum.

While the Naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba is well-known for its infamous prison camp, few people are aware of its prior use as an immigrant detention center for Haitian and Cuban refugees.

International law provides states with a common definition of a "e;refugee"e; as well as guidelines outlining how asylum claims should be decided.

Syrians crossing the Mediterranean in ramshackle boats bound for Europe; Sudanese refugees, their belongings on their backs, fleeing overland into neighboring countries; children separated from their parents at the US/Mexico border--these are the images that the Global Refugee Crisis conjures to many.

Syrians crossing the Mediterranean in ramshackle boats bound for Europe; Sudanese refugees, their belongings on their backs, fleeing overland into neighboring countries; children separated from their parents at the US/Mexico border--these are the images that the Global Refugee Crisis conjures to many.

The magnitude of refugees movements in the Third World, widely perceived as an unprecedented crisis, has generated widespread concern in the West.

With more than 18 million refugees worldwide, the refugee problem has fostered an intense debate regarding what political changes are necessary in the international system to provide effective solutions in the 1990s and beyond.

Hope and Hospitality for Migrating People Never have so many people left their homes and migrated to other parts of the world as weve seen in recent years.

We live in an age of displacement.

We live in an age of displacement.

Today, no one really thinks of Britain as a land of camps.

Today, no one really thinks of Britain as a land of camps.

Refugees and other forced migrants are one of the great contemporary challenges the world is confronting.

Refugees and other forced migrants are one of the great contemporary challenges the world is confronting.

The status of the refugee in international law, and of everyone entitled to protection, has ever been precarious, not least in times of heightened and heated debate: people have always moved in search of safety, and they always will.

The status of the refugee in international law, and of everyone entitled to protection, has ever been precarious, not least in times of heightened and heated debate: people have always moved in search of safety, and they always will.

Contrary to predictions that it would become increasingly redundant in a globalizing world, citizenship is back with a vengeance.

Contrary to predictions that it would become increasingly redundant in a globalizing world, citizenship is back with a vengeance.

International Refugee Law and the Protection of Stateless Persons examines the extent to which the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees protectsde jure stateless persons.

In 1944 the political philosopher and refugee, Hannah Arendt wrote: 'Everywhere the word 'exile' which once had an undertone of almost sacred awe, now provokes the idea of something simultaneously suspicious and unfortunate.

In 1944 the political philosopher and refugee, Hannah Arendt wrote: 'Everywhere the word 'exile' which once had an undertone of almost sacred awe, now provokes the idea of something simultaneously suspicious and unfortunate.

International Refugee Law and the Protection of Stateless Persons examines the extent to which the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees protectsde jure stateless persons.

Media interest in the fates of people at sea has heightened across the last decade.

Media interest in the fates of people at sea has heightened across the last decade.

The Making of the Modern Refugee is a comprehensive history of global population displacement in the twentieth century.

In the past twenty years, over 25 million refugees have returned 'home'.

International Migration Law provides a detailed and comprehensive overview of the international legal framework applicable to the movement of persons across borders.

International Migration Law provides a detailed and comprehensive overview of the international legal framework applicable to the movement of persons across borders.

The treatment of migrants is one of the most challenging issues that human rights, as a political philosophy, faces today.

The treatment of migrants is one of the most challenging issues that human rights, as a political philosophy, faces today.

Displacement caused by climate change is an area of growing concern.

Displacement caused by climate change is an area of growing concern.

Refugees lie at the heart of world politics.

Refugees lie at the heart of world politics.

There are few issues more urgently in need of intelligent analysis both in the UK and elsewhere than those relating to displacement, asylum, and migration.

Climate change presents one of the greatest challenges of our time, and has become one of the defining issues of the twenty-first century.

Climate change presents one of the greatest challenges of our time, and has become one of the defining issues of the twenty-first century.

In the opening decades of the twentieth century, Germany was at the cutting edge of arts and humanities scholarship across Europe.

A Prison Without Walls?

The continued vitality of the Greek city (polis) in the centuries after the Peloponnesian War has now been richly demonstrated by historians.

Since the complex emergencies of the 1990s, humanitarian agencies have placed increasing emphasis on the protection of civilians during armed conflict.