Context September 2nd, 2022, marked seven years since Aylan Kurdi became a worldwide sensation highlighting the refugee crisis that was arising from the war in Syria. Yet, many migrants continue to lose their lives whilst trying to seek refuge. One such instance occurred recently with the death of three children on board a boat filled […]
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In mid-October 2021, President Joe Biden announced that the United States would be allowing up to 125,000 refugees into the country for this financial year. However, it is unsure whether or not the United States will be able to meet its goal due to the backlog from various events, including COVID-19 and, more significantly, the
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According to the Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India, the President of the Cooperative Republic of Guyana, Dr. Mohamed Irfaan Ali, will be the Chief Guest at the 17thPravasi Bharatiya Divas (PBD) Convention. Dr. Ali became Guyana’s ninth Executive President on August 2, 2020. Dr. Ali’s profile at the official website of Guyana’s President
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An innovative yet callous measure used by the Greek police to keep asylum seekers at bay was revealed in the Guardian article – ‘Revealed: Greek police coerce asylum seekers into pushing fellow migrants back to Turkey’ – written and published by Katy Fallon, Klaas van Dijken, Bashar Deeb, Jack Sapoch, and Mohannad Al-Najjar (Fallon et
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In the past decade, news of millions of people fleeing their homes to “safe countries and a secure future” featured as daily headlines on global media. That included the reports on Syrians who were driven out of their homes by the civil war that began in 2011, the people of Central African Republic who faced
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The word ‘refugee’ invokes a diverse array of emotions, ranging from sympathy to vexation. For the rest of the world, refugees are a problem to be dealt with. However, for the millions of people who are no longer citizens of any state to merit enforceable human rights, the identity of ‘refugee’ is the only straw
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13 May, New York – A landmark meeting on international migration governance is slated to take place from 17-20 May at the United Nations (UN) headquarters in New York. UN Member States and Observers, UN system representatives, as well as stakeholder groups will attend the first International Migration Review Forum where progress made under the Global Compact
Prof. Binod Khadria, the President of GRFDT, has been nominated as ‘Affiliated Scholar’ at the Institute for the Study of International Migration (ISIM), Georgetown University, Washington DC. Prof. Binod Khadria, who has been at the helm of GRFDT since August 2021, is an eminent academician and former Professor of Economics and Chairperson of the Zakir
Global Research Forum on Diaspora and Transnationalism (GRFDT) has elected Professor Binod Khadria as the President of the Society. He will be supported by a global team of Vice Presidents to carry out various research, academic programmes and outreach activities of the think tank globally. Prof. Khadria has been a Professor of Economics, Education, and
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In January 2019, the Migration Protection Protocol also known as MPP started to operate on the border between Mexico and the United States of America. Under the MPP program, individuals arriving in the United States of America are given an immigration court date. However, while waiting for that court date they have to remain in
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