The UN has endorsed an ‘historic’ non-legally binding global compact on refugees, marking the latest move by member states to support the rights of 258 million people on the move worldwide. An overwhelming number of States in the UN General…

Increasing numbers of conflicts and rising poverty have fueled a 20 per cent increase in the number of international migrants over the past four years, according to a major report from the United Nations. According to the UN’s International Labor…

The Labor Party committed to increasing Australia’s refugee intake to 32,000 at its recent national conference. If Labor forms government next year this will mean Australia’s current intake of 1,750 will rise dramatically. And with Labor also committing to contribute…

The National Gallery of Indonesia recently hosted the art work of asylum seekers and refugees in a special exhibition. Titled Berdiam/Bertandang, which means Stay/Visit, the exhibition aimed to raise awareness of the plight of refugees while they wait in an…

Migrant and refugee children have missed 1.5 billion days of school over the past two years as progress slows on including migrant and refugee youth in the national education systems of host countries, according to a new UNESCO report. UNESCO’s…

In an extraordinary story that has resonance in Australia, a group of refugee families left stranded for two decades on a British military base on the Mediterranean island of Cyprus have been granted permanent residency in the UK. The six…

The number of Chinese nationals applying for refugee status in Australia has risen by more than 300 per cent in just a year, according to new figures from the Department of Home Affairs. Protection visa applications from people arriving from…

Migration is a boon to a nation’s health and wellbeing rather than a strain on health care systems, according to new research. Most migrants have a ‘mortality advantage’, or greater life expectancy, than people in their host countries – and…

Support among Australians for multiculturalism and immigration has weathered a significant uptick in the politicisation of the issue, according to the latest Scanlon social cohesion study. The 2018 Mapping Social Cohesion survey, conducted by the Scanlon Foundation and Monash University…

The geographic, demographic and geo-political variations of migration issues need to be better understood and considered, and; the many interconnections in the analysis and policymaking on migration and mobility need to be recognised. These are the key findings of the…

As the Victorian state election approaches, it is good to know that bi-partisanship on multiculturalism appears to be alive and well Victoria – even if there appears to be a battle looming over migration policy at a national level. A…

As a small boy Peter Kon was forced on a month-long march across rugged bushland away from his family and village. For the next 18-years a refugee camp would be his home and disease, starvation and death his constant companions.…