The United Nations has moved a step closer to affording refugee status to people displaced from their homes because of climate change-induced disasters. A new UNHCR paper titled ‘Legal considerations regarding claims for international protection made in the context of the…

A steady stream of migrants is leaving the US’ heavily populated north-eastern states for the nation’s western and southern regions, according to a new survey. In its 44th Annual National Migration Study, United Van Lines found that migration to western…

The coronavirus pandemic has slowed global migration by nearly 30 percent, with around two million fewer people than predicted migrating between 2019 and 2020, according to a new UN report. The report, titled ‘International Migration 2020’, found about 281 million…

An experimental new housing project in Paris is seeing a group of refugees share accommodation with locals. Near the Louvre Museum, eleven refugees are spending a year living with thirteen French people as a unique ‘family’. The refugee residents, aged…

Asylum seekers are stepping up to help Victoria’s agricultural producers continue to operate amid labour shortages triggered by the COVID-19 lockdowns. In just one example, Koala Cherries, at Yarck, in central Victoria, has recruited six asylum seekers – from Ethiopia,…

Incoming US President Joe Biden may struggle to undo much of the havoc wrought by the Trump administration to the US immigration and refugee protection systems, observers say. Refugee advocates in the US have called on incoming US President Joe…

Conditions for asylum seekers and migrants in Bosnia are deteriorating drastically as winter sets in and amid government inaction in providing adequate shelter, aid agencies report. About 6,000 migrants are housed in official accommodation centres in Bosnia while nearly 3,000…

Asylum claims in Germany fell by a third in 2020 compared with the previous year, new data shows. Germany’s interior ministry has reported that the numbers of people seeking asylum in 2020 fell by 30 percent as closed borders and…

Newly arrived refugees and migrants are now feeling safer and more confident that the worst of then COVID-19 pandemic is over in Australia but they report being impacted financially to a greater degree than the general population, according to a…

Bushra Mansour and her family are what successful refugee settlement in Australia looks like. Four years after arriving in Australia, the family has bought a house in Craigieburn, in Melbourne’s north, Bushra and her husband Jerjus are both in work…

It’s become a cliché, but 2020 was a year like no other. As the fireworks went off at midnight to kick off a new year and new decade, no one could have anticipated what the year was about to bring.…

Christmas is around the corner, meaning now is the time to make a difference. Gift consciously this Christmas and consider buying from refugee and migrant lead businesses. We’ve chosen some of our favourites to start you off. The Social Outfit…