The number of refugees crossing the Aegean has dropped in recent months, but thousands are still stuck on a Greek island.
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İzmir, Turkey’s third largest city, is a pit stop for Syrians headed to Europe – but for more and more of them, it’s becoming a home.
It’s the first global gathering to discuss humanitarian crises and opportunities – but talk and no action might still end up the order of the day.
Many groups have been labeled ‘enemy’ in the American past. A literary scholar looks at the role literature and philosophy have played in dispelling fears and shifting public attitudes.
Our collaboration with Point Taken, a new program from WGBH TV continues this week on the topic of Syrian refugees.
As part of a collaboration between The Conversation and PBS’s Point Taken, a professor from The Ohio State University examines some common misconceptions about Syrian refugees.
Lebanon is host to well over 1m Syrian refugees, and their situation is getting ever more desperate.
A majority of U.S. citizen oppose Syrian refugee resettlement. We run the numbers to put the perceived risk in perspective.
Surely it isn’t too far-fetched to claim that if migrants are to promote democracy back home, it is beneficial for them to experience democratic values and principles in the countries hosting them.
Probably no other country has struggled as hard to come to terms with its past as Germany. Here’s what students contributed to that struggle.
While the world struggles to even get to the negotiating table, the Syrian refugee crisis is still getting worse.
If we listen to the songs of displaced Syrians, just as we listen to the songs of victims of the Holocaust, we connect to displaced communities’ creativity, ingenuity and imagination.
Europe’s biggest achievements, such as open borders and human rights, are at risk as government responses to the refugee crisis fall short.
Well Santa has come and gone, at least for the largest proportion of the world’s population. And, as we reach the end of the year, it is inevitably time to review recent trends and the prospects for 2016…
Immigrant pupils do not cause a decline in education standards, according to a new OECD report.
The collapse of Syria’s health system is helping spread leishmaniasis but not in the way some media outlets have reported.
The attacks in Paris are putting refugees in the crosshairs, yet it’s the integration of these and past migrants that are key to the security of Europe.
The push to try to get Immigration Minister Peter Dutton onto Cabinet’s national security committee (NSC) can be seen, apart from anything else, as something of a power play by the Liberal right.
It beggars belief that there are people who have attached themselves to groups seeking to escape this barbarity. Their objectives are the very antithesis of those seeking sanctuary.
Australia – despite its major military commitment fighting Islamic State – was excluded from the Vienna weekend talks seeking a peace path for Syria because of an objection by Russia.
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Visiting Research Fellow at the Centre for Peace and Security, Coventry University
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Professor in The Division of Global Affairs and The Department of Political Science, Rutgers University - Newark
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Professor of Anthropology, The Ohio State University
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Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations, Coventry University
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Religion, Forced Migration, and Minority Rights Researcher, UCL
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Assistant researcher, University of Sydney
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Professor of international human rights law, York Law School, University of York
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Weinstein Chair of International Studies, Professor of Political Science, University of Richmond
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Dean of Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution, George Mason University
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Professor of International Migration and Forced Displacement and Director of the Institute for Research into International Migration and Superdiversity, University of Birmingham
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Senior Lecturer in Czech Studies, University of Glasgow
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Professor in International Politics, Glasgow Caledonian University
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Lecturer, University of Washington
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