Immigration
Protests spread across UK as police admit drawing rival groups together
Anti-migrant demonstrators and refugee-advocate rivals are coming together outside asylum hotels as an explosive dispute about where to house thousands of people crossing the English Channel gathers pace.
- David Crowe
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How Australia became home to a million refugees
Sidiqa Faqihi waited a decade in limbo in Indonesia before she arrived in Australia three years ago and felt reborn.
- Brittany Busch
It’s a perfect English town. Now a battle over asylum seekers is ripping it apart
The quiet community – similar to leafy suburbs on the edges of Sydney and Melbourne – has become a flashpoint over asylum seekers as right-wing outsiders escalate the situation with violence.
- David Crowe
Rebuilding lives in the shadow of Khmer Rouge terror
Fifty years after fleeing Cambodia, survivors of the brutal regime share their stories - and reflect on how they found a future in Australia.
- Neary Ty
Four in five Tuvaluans apply to move to Australia. Frayzel is among them
More than 8000 Tuvaluans have applied for 280 permanent residency visas for Australia, while last year 56,000 people from other Pacific countries applied for 3000 places.
- Caitlin Fitzsimmons and Nick O'Malley
‘The migrants are everywhere’: People smugglers are winning the battle of the beach
Smugglers post sentries in the dunes along France’s coast and launch Channel crossings from up to 10 beaches at a time. Authorities’ tear gas, drones and patrols are no match.
- Max Stephens
Thousands of Afghans secretly resettled in Britain after data leak
Britain set up a secret scheme to bring 4500 Afghans and their families to the UK after their personal details were disclosed, putting them at risk of reprisals from the Taliban.
- Sam Tobin and Andrew MacAskill
‘The experiment is on us’: Los Angeles keeps trying to defy Trump, with mixed results
Six weeks after protests captured worldwide attention, California remains at the centre of Donald Trump’s efforts to deport millions of illegal migrants.
- Michael Koziol
‘Fifty people a week’: Fury on both sides of English Channel over migration deal
A deal to stem the flow of asylum seekers from Europe to Britain has been dismissed as too weak, amid forecasts that up to 40,000 people could arrive in the UK this year.
- David Crowe
‘Migrant boat bonfire’ investigated as a hate crime in Northern Ireland
Local politicians have condemned the bonfire, built as part of traditional “loyalist” July 12 celebrations, that featured effigies of channel migrants in a dinghy.
- Amanda Ferguson and Clodagh Kiloyne
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