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What are Safety Mobility Offices and will Trump’s migrant crackdown scupper them?

As the United States and several key Latin American countries continue to harshen their migration policies, the growing numbers of people trying to escape humanitarian crises in the region feel increasingly compelled to risk more dangerous routes. “SMOs made people’s lives better very rapidly.”

Why is Europe pausing Syrian asylum claims after al-Assad’s fall?

Some European countries are freezing asylum applications for people from Syria in the wake of the fall of its regime. “Wir schaffen das!” or “We can do it!” said former German Chancellor Angela Merkel nine years ago, when she proclaimed that Germany and Europe had the capacity to grant asylum to people seeking refuge. Back then, her words offered hope to hundreds of thousands of Syrian people who were fleeing the country’s now-13-year-long civil war, in search of refuge in Europe.

Humanitarians: Stop using fear of migration to drive fundraising and advocacy

Rhetoric from politicians framing migration as a threat and refugees, asylum seekers, and migrants as dangerous has become troublingly commonplace in recent years around the world. What is less talked about is the fact that humanitarian organisations are all-too-frequently guilty of using similar tropes in their public communications, even if their intentions are not malicious.