For 38,000 asylum seekers living Israel, 2018 must seem like a roller coaster ride through hell. In January, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced a plan to deport the 38,000 mostly Eritrean and Sudanese migrants to undisclosed third countries in Sub-Saharan…

Rohingya refugee families are reinforcing their shelters and digging drains in crowded camps in Bangladesh as the monsoon season opens. Aid agencies say more than 40,000 Rohingya families in Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazar refugee camps have now been trained in shelter…

A massive investment in education and infrastructure in the 2018-19 Victorian state budget is the Andrews government’s response to a period of significant population growth largely driven by overseas migration. The Victorian Government has committed to spending $4.3 billion on…

The northern quadrant of South America is the latest hot spot in the world’s burgeoning refugee crisis. Colombian border authorities say that at least 20,000 are crossing the border in the country each day from Venezuela. They are fleeing a…

A new community-led Action Plan promises to strengthen communities and improve educational and employment outcomes for Victorians of African heritage. Launched by the State Government last week, the Victorian African Community Action plan (VACAP) is aimed at supporting African Victorian…

The resignation of Britain’s Home Secretary Amber Rudd draws an informative and salutary line under the UK’s so-called Windrush scandal. Ms Rudd quit amid a growing chorus of criticism over her handling of a damaging immigration crisis involving migrants from…

The UN Refugee Agency and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) have launched today an action plan to improve employment opportunities for refugees. The plan not only identifies the challenges, opportunities and best practices in the integration of refugees…

Yusra Mardini, the Syrian swimming champion who famously helped to save fellow refugees on a sinking raft in the Aegean Sea, has released a book that tells her traumatic story and also sheds light on the horror of the global…

Migrant women coming to Australia on partner or dependent visas are suffering serious domestic violence often in silence as threats of deportation are used to control them, according to new research. And many suffer in silence as threats of deportation…

More than half-a-million international students are studying in Australia this year, according to new government figures. It is the first time the 500,000 benchmark has been reached this early in a calendar year, and is a 12 per cent increase…

Melbourne remains the Australia’s fastest growing city and with the largest total increase in population – according to new data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) – and overseas migrants make up the bulk of the hike. Melbourne’s population…

As the national day of commemoration for Australians who served and died in war, the ANZAC story for a long time invoked an identity that didn’t mirror our growing multicultural society. But just as the diverse life experiences migrants and…