For decades, thousands of migrants from India, China, Africa and elsewhere have sought an escape from poverty as temporary migrant workers in wealthier countries. Now, one of the largest migration corridors in the world has started to flow in reverse.…

Britain’s Conservative government has faced an angry backlash after the leaking of plans to house asylum seekers on remote islands, decommissioned ferries or even oil rigs. The plan emerged to take asylum seekers who cross the English Channel in small…

Refugees are increasingly at risk as the COVID-19 crisis erodes protections and exacerbates health risks, according to the UNHCR protection chief and former Australian Human Right Commissioner Gillian Triggs. International standards of refugee protection have been severely tested in 2020…

The US Government is planning to cut further the number of refugees the United States accepts to a new record low next year. In a recent notice to Congress, the Trump administration said it intended to admit a maximum of…

Job opportunities are bouncing back in Australia in the wake of the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic and the broad lockdowns it brought, new data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) shows. The health and social care, administration and…

There are significant implications in the 2020-21 federal budget for Australia’s migration and refugee settlement programs with population growth set to fall to its lowest level in a century. The number of refugee places available will drop by about 5,500…

After months of delay in the commencement of peace talks between the Government of Afghanistan and the Taliban, finally the delegations from both sides sat together in Doha on September 12. But after the preliminary direct talks between the two…

Helen Mirren, Patrick Stewart, Coldplay and Kate Moss are among a group of 70 celebrities who have signed an open letter demanding that the British government do more to create safe and legal routes for refugee families to reunite in…

Support for Australia’s multicultural society remains high with 80 per cent of people agreeing that it is ‘a good thing for a society to be made up of people from different cultures’, according to a new survey of social wellbeing…

More than a $US1 billion dollars in spending on the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic – much of it in countries hosting large numbers of refugees, asylum seekers and internally displaced persons – has been called into question over corruption…

With the US presidential election just weeks away, a new analysis by the Pew Research Center has unearthed some interesting demographic shifts in the American electorate. The analysis has found Hispanic voters now make up an increasingly larger share of…

Refugees and asylum seekers are being falsely blamed for spreading the COVID-19 virus and face stigma and discrimination as the pandemic causes an economic and health crisis across the world, experts say. The UN refugee agency UNHCR says the pandemic…