A row has broken out over plans to change the name of Melbourne’s iconic Immigration Museum. The name change was quietly revealed in April in a media release about a tattoo exhibition at the museum. But the row erupted in…

AMES book launched in Canberra AMES Australia’s ‘Refugee Stories’ book was launched nationally in Canberra recently at an event in Parliament House. The book was officially launched by Russell Broadbent MP, the member for McMillan, and Opposition Home Affairs spokesperson…

The number of households in Victoria will almost double from 2.4 to 4.6 million from but households will be smaller; the overall population will increase from 6.5 million to 11.2 million, and; inward migration will account for twice as much…

When Celian Kidega fled South Sudan at just 17, he was setting off with his classmates on a long and hazardous journey on foot through jungle, war zones and across national borders. It was the start of an even longer…

Refugees and asylum seekers have been the subjects of political discussion, law making and even two UN member states endorsed landmark “compacts” in recent years. But a third group of displaced people attracts much less attention. These are internally displaced…

Former US Vice President Walter Mondale has hit out at the Trump administration’s dismantling of the US’ leadership in global humanitarian affairs and its Writing in the Washington Post, Mr Mondale said: “Forty years ago this month, I stood before the Geneva Meeting…

Turkey is reportedly deporting Syrian refugees from Istanbul to Syria, including to the volatile northwest province of Idlib, in a campaign launched recently against migrants who lack residency papers. The crackdown comes at a time of rising rhetoric and political…

The effects climate change and extreme weather events are having in degrading traditional landscapes and the livelihoods of entire communities has been mapped for the first time to study the impact these factors have on human migration and population displacement.…

Migrants from Muslim backgrounds continue to face barriers integrating into Australian society even if they have strong English skills, new research claims. A Deakin University analysis of the prospects of childhood immigrants from a range of backgrounds used data from…

Returning migrants are bringing unexpected benefits to their home communities through wealth, education and world experience, new research has found. Between 1990 and 2015 nearly half of all migrants worldwide went back to their country of birth, whether by choice…

The political unrest gripping Hong Kong is set to contribute to rising emigration from the territory to countries like Australia, Canada and the US, observers say. As the current protests – which originally stemmed from opposition to new laws allowing…

Almost half of the world’s one billion migrants are women – yet government policies almost uniformly favour a male-dominant approach to migration, according to a new United Nations report. The report says most governments’ policies ignore the stark risks and…