US President Donald Trump has announced laws intended to slash legal immigration to the United States by reducing the amount of low-skilled immigrants who are allotted green cards. And his supporters have cited Australia as a model in revamping migration…

George and Amal Clooney plan to support Syrian refugee children living in Lebanon to continue with their education in an effort to prevent thousands of young people from becoming “a lost generation.” The couple’s Clooney Foundation for Justice has announced…

An Iraqi refugee and AMES Australia volunteer has been recognised by the AFL for his community work. Osama Butti was honoured as the Carlton Football Club’s ‘Community Champion’ during the AFL’s ‘Toyota AFL Multicultural Round’ this week for his work…

As many as 200,000 Syrian refugee children in Lebanon have been forced into child labor, according to the United Nations. Many of these children have lost one or both parents as well as their homes during their county’s bloody civil…

Karen refugees Hsar and Isaac grew up in the same camp on the Thai-Burma border. Their friendship has continued through the years despite Hsar’s family being resettled in Melbourne and Isaac’s in Sheffield, England. Reunited in Melbourne recently more than…

Community capacity building – or helping communities to develop, implement and sustain their own solutions to problems – can be key to achieving better settlement outcomes for migrants and refugees, news research suggests. In an article written by the Australian…

Britain’s decision to leave the European Union is becoming mired in confusion and uncertainty as the long term consequences of the move slowly emerge. The most hotly contested aspect of the so called ‘Brexit’ is what immigration arrangements will exist…

Read about the latest news, research and initiatives from migrant and refugee settlement agency AMES Australia…   AMES successful in HSP tender AMES Australia has been appointed the Humanitarian Settlement Program provider in Victoria as well as in South Australia…

Last year’s high-level summit in New York established principles of international cooperation and responsibility-sharing among states to address the global refugee crisis. The “Comprehensive Refugee Response Framework”, outlined in an annex to the New York Declaration, is to form the…

Victoria and Melbourne continue to lead Australia’s population growth reflecting the state’s attractiveness to migrants from overseas and interstate, new Australian Bureau of Statistics’ data shows. Victoria had the largest growth in terms of absolute numbers with 1.1 million people…

Migrants are healthier than the average Aussie and they also make up a significant proportion of the healthcare workforce, according to data from the latest census. Developed economies, including Australia, have increasingly been using international migration to compensate for economically…

Karen refugees have been volunteering to propagate rare and valuable plants at Werribee Park as well as helping to eradicate the park’s feral rabbit infestation using their pet ferrets. The refugees are producing seedlings for the park and also clearing…