The author talks about state of refugees in Canada, who were generally considered moocher by public but did not fully agree with this. He supported his views by referring Canadian Professor, Morton Beiser's study of their integration into Canadian society. The author cited the example of Germany...
The diaspora has spread further, with many refugees building lives in Gulf Arab countries or the West. After fighting stopped in the 1948 war, Israel refused to allow refugees to return to their homes. Since then, Israel has rejected Palestinian demands for a return of refugees as part of ...
Even before the terrorist strikes in Paris, we had a simmering debate on whether the United States should accept refugees from Syria. On one side, we are naturally a compassionate people and instinctively wish to help people who are suffering. On the other side, there was a strong likelihood ...
Asylum seekers who are waiting for their claims to be adjudicated can belong to any category. We argue that asylum seekers should be conceived as morally on a par with sanctuary refugees, who are owed temporary but robust protection. The point is that they might or might not have a valid c...
This is not to deny the tragic displacement of Palestinians during Israel’s founding. Yet the turbulent post-World War II period was a time of population transfers all over the world, as new countries coalesced and people fled out of fear or duress. Refugees included massive numbers of ethnic...
Given the level of support it has given Ukraine, Poland's request that Ukrainian grain sales should not come at the expense of its own farmers is "quite reasonable", according to military analyst Sean Bell.
And so many of us children are not expectedto say it either, but instead are expected to express love throughgratitude, which means obeying our parents and following their wishesfor how we should live our lives.Ourparents, for the most part, told us to get a good education, get agood ...
While immediately condemning Russia's invasion, it took a day or two before a consensus began to emerge over what action should be taken. In the days that followed, what surprised some was the extent to which countries that had previously been relatively ambivalent about the threat of wa...
senior associate at WRI's Finance Center. This involves that both smaller enterprises and larger corporations understand the impacts of climate change on their operations. They should take proactive steps to protect themselves, their activities, and the environment through resilience-building initiative...
the only way to really test if voluntary segregation improves performance is to use standardized tests as controls—tests in which everybody has to answer the same question. If this kind of segregation works, we should see higher test scores on minority students if they’ve been in self-segreg...