Asylum seekers, advocates protest change in aid rules ; The LePage administration wants to stop providing General Assistance to some immigrants awaiting work permits. Opponents call the change illegalRANDY BILLINGS Staff Writer
Deutschland Ist Doch ein Einwanderungsland Geworden: Proposals to Address Germany's Status as a "Land of Immigration." In contrast to the former "guestworkers" and asylum seekers, the law did not consider this population to be foreign at all. In fact, ethnic Germans still enjoy the right to...
Access to Non-Communicable Disease (NCD) Services Among Urban Refugees and Asylum Seekers, Relative to the Thai Population, 2019: A Case Study in Bangkok, ... The health of urban refugees and asylum seekers (URAS) in Thailand has been under-researched compared with other groups of non-Thai ...
More than 270,000 migrants arrived in Europe in 2023, with 3,546 listed as dead or missing, UN figures show. 2024 could see a change in direction on how asylum seekers and migrants are dealt with following a last-minute EU deal. Image:A group of migrants on an inflatable din...
The steep rise in the number of asylum seekers arriving in Ireland since the late 1990s has presented a novel set of challenges to the Republic's nonprofit sector. Legal instruments and statutory policy that have developed since that time have created a particularly vulnerable population from this...
From spearheading illegal needle exchange programmes, using their bodies as blockades to stop the detention of asylum seekers, and illegally occupying government buildings to ensure continued access to medicines for people with HIV, the past century holds many examples of how the medical community ...
And while he accepted the deal had been "entered into... in good faith", the evidence showed "there is a real risk that asylum claims will not be determined properly, and that asylum seekers will therefore be at risk of being returned directly or indirectly to their cou...
His scholarship focuses on RAMS (Refugees, Asylum- seekers, Migrants, Stateless) and the role of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in their protection, Global Forced Displacement, Global Circumstantial Migration (GCM) Governance, and Climate Refugees in South Asia. He also addresses the International ...
The MSP said: “The government has agreed to more modest Green proposals like free ferry travel for young islanders, free bus travel for asylum seekers and higher tax on the purchase of holiday homes, but these measures are not nearly enough to make up for the cuts elsewhere. ...
Humanitarian admissions are generally limited to refugees and asylum seekers. Most environmental migrants, forced to flee because of loss of livelihood or habitat and not because of persecutory policies, will be unlikely to meet the legal definition of a refugee. In the absence of legal ...