Something funny is happening across America’s Bible-belt. The leaders and lay people of the US’ evangelical Christian religions are divided over President Trump’s decision to slash the number refugees the nation accepts. Every year since the passage of the US…

New data released by the Australia Bureau of Statistics shows overwhelmingly that refugees and migrants are embracing life Australia while attempting to adopt the nation’s culture and traditions. The snapshot of permanent migrants who have arrived in Australia this century…

More than 190 countries have finally agreed on an historic global compact to promote safe and orderly migration and reduce human smuggling and trafficking – but the US and Hungary were not among them. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, General Assembly…

Human migration out of Africa began more than two million years ago – much earlier than previously thought – according to analyses of ancient tools and bones recently discovered in China. Artefacts found by archaeologists on the Loess Plateau in…

Australia’s permanent migrant intake has dropped to just 162,417 in the past financial year – the lowest in a decade and ten per cent less than the previous year – according to new figures released to the media. The reduction,…

Climate change is expected to displace millions of people through impacts including sea level rise, crop failures, and more frequent extreme weather. Scientists still cannot predict where these expected climate-induced migrants are likely to go in the coming decades but…

The United States’ refugee resettlement program has fallen to its lowest point in more than 30 years, according to new research from the Washington-based Pew Research Center. And the number of refugees resettled in the US decreased more than in…

European Union leaders say they have secured a new deal on the migration crisis that has beset the continent since 2016. There is pre-ambulatory text but not really any clear agreement on what European nations will do collectively to cope with…

Refugee children are high achievers with a strong will to contribute and connect to their host societies, a raft of new research has found. According to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), more than half of the world’s refugee…

An Afghan refugee brought up in a society that denied education to women has won a prestigious scholarship to Oxford University. Sitarah Mohammadi was eight years old when she first learnt to read and write. As a child, she was…

NGOs working in the humanitarian sector across the globe have come under scrutiny recently after a string of scandals involving misbehaviour by aid workers. In May, the United Nations recalled a 46-member Ghanaian peacekeeping police unit from the protection of civilians in…

Former Portuguese lawyer and politician António Manuel de Carvalho Ferreira Vitorino has been elected as the International Organisation for Migration’s (IOM) next Director General. Mr Vitorino succeeds American William Lacy Swing as head of the United Nations’ migration agency on…