Refugee Recognition News Today

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Hedayat Osyan, a former refugee from Afghanistan, has employed and trained dozens of refugees with limited English language skills.

The Nagoya High Court last month ordered the Japanese government to grant refugee status to an ethnic Rohingya asylum seeker from Myanmar. The ruling is unprecedented as Japan’s refugee determination system puts more weight on asylum seekers’ individual circumstances than their status as a member of a particular group.

Nominations are now open for the third Les Murray Award for Refugee Recognition, presented by SBS and Australia for UNHCR.

The president of a Tokyo-based staffing agency and two others were arrested for allegedly dispatching a Cambodian trainee who had fled his job to work for a major trucking company

Japan’s leadership needs to recognise that refugees can contribute positively to the country’s demographic and labour market woes.

The Democratic Party for the People, the third largest opposition party with 21 seats in the Diet, is scheduled to hold its leadership election on Sept. 2.

Starting next month, the visa requirements for foreign entertainers visiting Japan will be significantly relaxed.

On June 6, just weeks before World Refugee Day, Japan’s Diet passed a bill to amend the Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act. The new law allows the Japanese government to deport asylum seekers who apply for refugee status more than twice. The amendments faced fierce opposition from lawmakers, international legal experts, and civil society organizations. For people seeking refuge in Japan, they will be another obstacle. Japanese policy is already strongly oriented against granting

Two decades ago, at the height of a growing refugee crisis, I visited the small Mediterranean island of Lampedusa in southern Italy to report on the boatloads of migrants and asylum seekers from North Africa washing ashore there.