Ottawa’s bid to improve the way extended families are reunited in Canada has backfired, leaving thousands of relatives upset and their lawyers frustrated.
As the Metropolis World Congress opens, mayors of Montreal, Berlin and Buenos Aires are advocating more cooperation and leadership from cities to integrate immigrants.
The anti−refugee, anti−immigrant sentiment deployed by politicians is fuelled by fear, and the global challenge is to look at what drives that fear and respond to it, according to the UNHCR.
Airbnb has launched a platform to assist hosts who want to provide free housing to displaced people in need in an effort to help the global refugee crisis.
Members of the 'Five Eyes' intelligence-sharing alliance will automatically provide data to one another that critics say could threaten refugees and others.
Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale must fix Canada's broken immigration detention system without putting human rights up for negotiation in the court of public opinion.
Canadian aid workers in the Middle East are preparing for an influx of asylum-seekers into already crowded camps, fearing U.S. military action in Syria could drive more people out of the wartorn count
In Buffalo, N.Y., a client is currently living in a shelter, desperately awaiting news about how she might be reunited with her three young children, all under the age of 10.
The Immigration and Refugee Board is doing its best to cope with a growing number of asylum claims in Canada, but the federal Liberals must take action to prevent an unmanageable backlog.