“The number of asylum seekers and refugees needing shelter has surged in recent years, leaving officials in suburban municipalities like Peel scrambling to respond.”
asylum-seekers
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To Stay or To Go?
“Some immigrants have been withdrawing cases against their lawyers’ advice, saying they’re more afraid of being in detention during a coronavirus outbreak than of what might be waiting in the places they fled.”
Posted inCurrent Events, Highlight, Nonfiction, Podcasts, Writing
Trapped in Limbo Down Under
In Australia, some 30,000 people live in a state of legal uncertainty crafted by politicians.
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Motherhood on the Line
Three asylum seekers navigate coronavirus and climate change at the U.S.-Mexico border.
Posted inCurrent Events, Feature, investigations, Nonfiction, Story
Inside the Chaos of Immigration Court
Gabriel Thompson takes us into San Francisco Immigration Court and the labyrinthine system that asylum seekers—and attorneys and judges—are up against.
Posted inNonfiction, Story
Finding True North
Thousands of Haitians who fled the United States on foot last summer have started very different lives in Canada.