Gender-Based Violence and the Struggle for Justice: Rohingya Women at the Intersection of Law and Displacement
For Rohingya women in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, the refugee camp is not simply a humanitarian space. It is a site where gender-based violence (GBV) is woven into the structures of...
Status Stripped: Current and Potential Abuse of the U.S. Denaturalization Process — Part III of III
In Parts I and II, I argued that the current U.S. administration’s mass-denaturalization campaign is highly susceptible to error and abuse, that these risks compound in civil denaturalization cases, and...
Status Stripped: Current and Potential Abuse of the U.S. Denaturalization Process — Part II of III
Part I of this series argued that the current U.S. administration’s mass-denaturalization campaign is highly susceptible to error and abuse and that these concerns compound in civil denaturalization cases. In...
Status Stripped: Current and Potential Abuse of the U.S. Denaturalization Process — Part I of III
The New York Times recently reported that the Department of Justice (DOJ) intended to refer 384 foreign-born Americans for denaturalization. This is merely one in a long line of aggressive...
Access Denied: Assessing Thailand’s Legal Obligations to Displaced Persons from Prey Chan and Chouk Chey (Ban Nong Ya Kaeo) Under International Humanitarian Law
There are reports of forced displacements at the disputed Thai-Cambodian border areas. The villages of Prey Chan and Chouk Chey (Ban Nong Ya Kaeo in Thai sources) have seen Cambodian...
From Protection to Precarity: Examining the U.S. Decision to Terminate TPS for Burmese Nationals
On 25 November 2025, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced in the Federal Register that it would terminate the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) designation for nationals of Myanmar...
Migration with Dignity or Statelessness by Design?: A Closer look at the curious case of Kiribati
With regions across the globe experiencing its effect in different forms, climate change has reached every nook and corner of the world. While some regions experience hotter summers, others witness...
Asylum vs. Temporary Protection: The paradox of legal protection in Latin America
Venezuela’s protracted collapse has driven millions to seek protection across Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), making it one of the largest displacement situations in recent years. By May-2025, over...
Australia’s High Court Reconsiders Freedom: The New Constitutional Battle over Post-NZYQ Immigration Detention
The High Court of Australia took a fresh constitutional challenge on the government’s post-NZYQ immigration control regime in early October 2025. Specifically, numerous non-citizens released from indefinite detention last year...
Dismantling Procedural Protections for Unaccompanied Children in the United States
Buried deep within sweeping U.S. legislation enacted in July 2025 lies a brief provision with far-reaching consequences for unaccompanied children arriving in the United States. It narrows longstanding procedural protections...
Revival of Measures to Expel Asylum-Seekers from the United States: Implications for Non-Refoulement Obligations
The Trump administration has expanded upon its initiatives to remove asylum-seekers and other individuals to third countries expeditiously and summarily by reviving a signature immigration policy from its first term....
Abolish ICE? What It Really Means—and What Comes Next
Calls to abolish U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) have moved from activist circles to mainstream political debate, especially in the wake of aggressive enforcement policies under the Trump administration....
