Australia’s new Race Discrimination Commissioner Chin Tan has committed to use his five-year term to challenge racism, promote multicultural diversity and strengthen community and social cohesion. In his first major address in his new role, at the international Metropolis Conference…

A new research report looking at the settlement of Yazidi refugees from the recent Syria-Iraq conflict at Armidale, in NSW, adds weight to the evidence that Australian regional communities are becoming increasingly welcoming of refugee and migrant groups. Dr Sue…

Migrant and refugee deaths and disappearances since 2014 total nearly 58,000 or almost double the official count, according to a new investigation by the Associated Press. The UN’s migration agency IOM had reported the number of dead and missing migrants…

Japan will consider accepting more refugees from other Asian countries by 2020, the government has announced. The Japanese government said it would consider doubling its annual intake of about 30 people having come under pressure from the UNHCR and other…

Young Australians are becoming increasingly pessimistic about their futures and the chances of finding sustainable jobs, according to new research.   New data released by the National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER) shows the proportion of 23-year-old Australians who believe…

Australia’s newsrooms are failing minority communities and driving negative sentiment towards cultural diversity, according to a new study. The Deakin University study also found that too few of the stories about minority communities incorporated a viewpoint from that community. The…

Two stunning new photo exhibitions on opposite sides of the Atlantic are changing attitudes towards refugees and migrants. Many of the images we see of refugees, migrants and immigrants portray them as burdens on society or victims of oppression. But…

A new UK study has found that denying asylum seekers work rights and making them reliant on hand-outs is costing Britain millions of pounds each year. Instead, asylum seekers and their families, many of whom live in near destitution, having…

Investment in farming and rural economies in developing nations could be an answer to burgeoning levels of internal and international migration, according to a new United Nations report. The report, entitled ‘2018 The State of Food and Agriculture – Migration,…

Australia’s Turkish community is celebrating 50 years since the first group of Turkish migrants landed in Australia. The arrival of the group of migrants from mainland Turkey in in Sydney in 1968 followed an agreement signed between the two countries…

Italy’s far-right interior minister has ordered the removal of around 200 asylum seekers from a small Italian town that has become a model for the integration of migrants. And the town of Riace’s mayor Domenico Lucano has been placed under…

An estimated 258 million people currently live in a country other than that of their birth, a figure that is up from 173 million in 2000, and 102 million in 1980, according to the latest world snapshot of migration data.…