Migrants sit on a pier in May as Italian police officers stand nearby on the tiny island of Lampedusa in Italy. (Salvatore Cavalli / Associated Press) The U.S. and Europe are facing growing migration ...

American leaders of all political stripes lament the nation’s broken asylum system, but they also fall lockstep into short-sighted, reactive fixes that don’t solve the underlying problem: an outdated ...

Diana Fu’s Sept. 19 article titled “Refusing refugee status and questioning its implications” concerning the implications of the term refugees as it applies to victims of Hurricane Katrina failed to ...

held at Government House, Jerusalem, on Friday, 1 June 1951, at 9.30 a.m. The CHAIRMAN opened the discussion on the addendum to the definition of a refugee, prepared by the legal adviser. Mr. PALMER ...

President Biden’s announcement that the United States will resettle 100,000 Ukrainian refugees appears on its face to be a positive, straightforward response to the 3 million-plus Ukrainians who have ...

The case of the Ukrainian refugees, who do not fall into the traditional definition of refugees, could add momentum to efforts to overhaul Japan’s refugee and immigration policies. Despite Japan’s ...

WARS HAVE always had civilian victims. But it was the scale of the two world wars of the early 20th century that prompted governments to draw up international laws to protect some of the people ...

Despite recent and increasing efforts by the United States and other governments to narrow their interpretations of the refugee definition and to shirk their protection responsibilities, the need to ...

American leaders of all political stripes lament the nation’s broken asylum system, but they also fall lockstep into short-sighted, reactive fixes that don’t solve the underlying problem: an outdated ...

American leaders of all political stripes lament the nation’s broken asylum system, but they also fall lockstep into short-sighted, reactive fixes that don’t solve the underlying problem: an outdated ...