A GUIDE FOR LGBTQI+ ASYLUM SEEKERS CROSSING THE CANADA-U.S. BORDER
Amid growing legal uncertainty and rising anti-LGBTQI+ policies in the United States, many individuals are considering seeking asylum in Canada. This toolkit supports LGBTQI+ individuals who are exploring the possibility of entering Canada from the U.S. It provides accessible information on the asylum process, with special focus on the Safe Third Country Agreement (STCA) and its exceptions, which…
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SAFE THIRD COUNTRY AGREEMENT DATABASE
The Safe Third Country Agreement (STCA) Database contains information on the presence, status and some outcomes of refugee claimants who entered Canada and were subject to the Safe Third Country Agreement with the United States of America at the Canada-US border from 2017 to 2024. Although these data were largely publicly-available, they were neither centralized, cleaned nor easily accessible for analysis by researchers and publics alike. Based on work by…
Nauru Files
The Nauru files contain the largest set of documents published from inside Australia’s immigration detention system. Leaked to The Guardian in 2016, they include nearly 2,000 incident reports from the Nauru detention centre, which were written by guards, caseworkers and teachers on the remote Pacific Island.