Big Tech companies provide cloud computing services to various actors worldwide, including Frontex, thereby shaping the governance of the EU’s external borders. Given that border control constitutes a safety-critical environment,…
Migration is an inherently gendered process. Women and girls face disproportionate risks of gender-based violence (GBV) due to systemic gender inequality and discrimination that persists throughout the migration…
The fall of the Assad regime in Syria has raised the possibility of millions of internationally displaced Syrians returning to their homeland. However, Syria’s capacity to absorb initial returnees, the…
Currently, in a US election year, immigration has once again become a hot-button political issue. Candidates must contend with political claims that immigrants are taking Americans’ jobs and disrupting…
Since the mid-1990s, xenophobia and xenophobic violence against migrants have been deeply entrenched phenomena in South Africa, further exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. The pandemic has been used as a…
As irregular migration numbers once again soar to historic levels, Europe’s migration challenges remain a difficult challenge to surmount. After years of infighting and foot-dragging, an agreement on a long-stalled…
Human-caused climate change is a major factor affecting Pacific islander life. The causes and impacts of climate change must be addressed, but not at the expense of other social and…
Ethnonationalism is a strong force in Korean society, and the South Korean state has pursued an active diasporic engagement policy based on this principle. Nevertheless, co-ethnic return migrants from less-developed…
The 2021 World Bank report warns that without early climate action, climate change could force 216 million people across six world regions to move within their countries by 2050.
Food insecurity is one of the most daunting global issues: around one billion people are at risk of malnourishment across the world. In 2021, the New Global Commons Working Group…
