A Muppet named Tonton is spreading joy among children living in refugee camps in the Middle East. TV icon Sesame Street is working with aid organisation The International Rescue Committee to help millions of refugee children around the world learn, grow…

About 143 million people are at risk of becoming ‘climate migrants’ fleeing crop failure, drought and rising sea levels, according to a seminal new report from The World Bank. The report says climate change will become the single biggest driver…

Tens of thousands of Rohingya refugees living in shacks in makeshift camps in Bangladesh are facing the terrifying prospect of destructive rain and storms as the annual monsoon season approaches. The barren hillsides in southern Bangladesh that are home to…

Australia is doing a good job of integrating migrant children into its education system, a new OECD report says. Migrant children, particularly those from India, China and the Philippines, are achieving better academic results than their Australian-born classmates, the report…

Migrants for the first time are large proportion of people deemed to be homeless in Australia, according to newly released census data. The data shows the number of homeless people in Australia has soared by almost 15 per cent and…

Refugees in Australia are missing out on appropriate healthcare because of fragmented services and poor continuity of care, according to a raft of new research. A series of research papers published in the online journal ‘Public Health Research & Practice’…

The number of European Union citizens leaving the UK is at its highest level for a decade with 130,000 quitting Britain in the year to September, the latest figures show. But far more EU nationals – around 220,000 – moved…

Better use of data on migration could help turn human mobility into an asset worth tens of billions of dollars, the recent World Economic Forum in Davos has heard. A report released at the forum shows how investing in migration…

A new study has been launched to investigate the language gap between native in English speakers and migrants whose first language is not English. Macquarie University’s Professor Ingrid Piller is investigating just how native English speakers in Australia communicate with…

The City of Greater Dandenong, in Melbourne’s southeast, is now officially Australia’s most culturally diverse community. The latest Census figures show the level of diversity in Greater Dandenong is the highest in the country. The area has seen waves of…

Last week saw aspiring models from indigenous communities in Australia, New Zealand, USA and Canada participate in the Global Indigenous Runway 2018 at Melbourne Museum, part of Virgin Australia Melbourne Fashion Festival. The group of over 50 models spent a…

The welcome neighbouring countries gave to Syrian refugees may be starting to wear thin as the conflict enters its eight year. Aid agencies are reporting growing resentment towards the millions of Syrians who have fled the seven-year civil war has…