Visas for Surrogates: Acknowledging Familial Bonds between Surrogates, Intended Parents, and Children
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Immigration and Asylum
British Citizenship: Precious, Costly, and Precarious
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Women in Malaysia Can Now Pass on Citizenship to Overseas-Born Children
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On 27 September 2021, the Kuala Lumpur High Court in ...
UK High Court Grants Discretionary Leave to Remain for Victims of Trafficking
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On 12 October 2021, in KTT, R ...
The Nationality and Borders Bill has Passed the Commons, With the UK Set to Renege on Fundamental Protections for Asylum Seekers and Migrants
Last Wednesday, the Nationality and Borders Bill – fittingly dubbed the “Anti-refugee bill”– passed its third ...
Assessing Vulnerability: Asylum Seekers with Disabilities in Direct Provision in Ireland
Asylum seekers with disabilities are largely invisible in the international protection system in Ireland. They ...
Afghanistan Crisis and Inadequate Indian Refugee Policy
The speed with which the Taliban seized Afghanistan as American forces withdrew has plunged Afghanistan into a ...
BIICL Short Course: International Migration and Refugee Law
5 Sessions: 04, 11, 18, 25 October and 01 November, 13:00 - 15:00 (UK Time)
This course offers a unique ...
The Spanish-Moroccan Migrant Crisis: Counting the Collateral Damage
In May 2021, approximately 8,000 people arrived in Ceuta, a Spanish city, from Morocco, out of which reportedly ...
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Legal aid is a human right: SM v The Lord Chancellor’s Department [2021] EWHC 418 (Admin)
The lack of legal aid advice for immigration detainees held in prisons in the UK has been ruled unlawful. A High ...
A tale of legal violence and systematic oppression: Indian Supreme Court orders the deportation of Rohingyas
On 8 April 2021, a three-judge bench of the Supreme Court of India refused to grant relief in a petition ...
Saudi Arabia must protect financial rights of migrant workers
On 14 March, the kingdom of Saudi Arabia, long known for the oppressive treatment of foreign workers, enacted a ...
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