Syrian refugees exiled in Lebanon are falling deeper into personal debt, the United Nations refugee agency UNHCR has reported recently, with some families even marrying off children to cope financially. The past year has seen the financial situations of Syrians…

Amid the ruins of the ancient and once beautiful city of Aleppo, people are starting to rebuild their homes. The residents who haven’t fled are grateful the violence had ended and most want to see a complete end to the…

Former Sudanese refugee and rising Australian soccer star Awer Mabil has quietly launched a campaign about mental health. Awer, 23, scored on his Socceroos debut in October and bagged two goals in three games at the Asian Cup in United…

The dramatic real life stories of four young people caught up in the mass exodus from Shanghai in the wake of China’s 1949 Communist revolution is the basis of a compelling new book by award winning US journalist Helen Zia.…

Last year saw the adoption by most nations on the planet of two new compacts which were designed as roadmaps for managing mass migration. With 68 million people displaced in the world and more than 25.4 million officially recognised refugees,…

Ethiopia has passed a historic law giving almost a million refugees the right to work and live outside the nation’s numerous camps. The government of President Mulatu Teshome has been praised by aid agencies for providing refugees with more dignity…

English-speaking migrants in Australia are more likely to become CEOs than those born here, a new study has found. Using census data, researchers from Macquarie University’s Faculty of Business and Economics found that while Australia’s workforce is highly diverse by…

A commitment to include migrants, displaced persons and refugees in education and training systems and a focus on education as a driver of sustainable development are the key messages to come out of the a high-level international conference on global…

A picture of under-utilised skills, discrimination and problems of language acquisition have emerged from one of the first comprehensive studies of the skills of migrants across the globe. The OECD’s ‘Skills on the Move’ report found that the literacy, numeracy…

Demographers have identified a new generation of humans in the western world born after 1997 who are more diverse in their views, more tolerant of difference, better educated and yoked to ‘always on’ technology. Called “Generation Z’, these 7 to…

China’s annual Spring Festival migration – the largest mass human movement on the planet – is underway and set to be bigger than ever. Called “Chunyun”, the 40-day annual period when Chinese people head home to celebrate the Lunar New…

Immigration has replaced terrorism as the issue most important to Europeans, according to new research. The numbers of Europeans who think terrorism is one of the two most important issues facing the EU has dropped substantially in the past two…