Life amid Canada’s ‘troubling’ shift on migrant rights
Experts say Canada ‘closing the doors’ as socioeconomic issues upend decades-long consensus on immigration.
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Experts say Canada ‘closing the doors’ as socioeconomic issues upend decades-long consensus on immigration.
![People wait to seek help from the FCJ Refugee Centre in Toronto, Canada, August 7, 2023 [Wa Lone/Reuters]](https://aljazeeranews.edgeone.app/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/2023-09-02T100010Z_294917403_RC2AN2AT3JSJ_RTRMADP_3_CANADA-REFUGEES-1779715341.jpg?resize=770%2C513&quality=80)








Satellite data shows damage to residential areas, UNESCO Heritage buffer zones and Palestinian camps in Israeli attacks.

Recent clashes between protesters and police killed at least 11 people.

Two years on, witnesses recount the June 2024 Israeli raid on Nuseirat refugee camp to free four captives.
At least 990 refugees and migrants have died this year while attempting the perilous journey across the Mediterranean.
Hegseth says Europe is being ‘invaded by dangerous migrants’.
Palestinian patients stripped of their documents are confined inside a Baghdad medical centre.













Malak Mahmoud, the pregnant woman filmed being thrown to the ground by a Dutch police officer has spoken to Al Jazeera.
Greece’s migration minister recently said Athens does not share common values with ‘hardcore Islam’.

The Bazaar of Return in Aida Refugee Camp