Australia is seeing a boom in international education with student numbers rising 15 per cent in the first three months of this year compared with 2016. And Melbourne is the epicentre of the growth with the lion’s share of the…

Take a look at all the action from the 2017 Game On! AMES Cup held at Whitten Oval.  

They don’t get the publicity afforded refugees perhaps because they are not forced to flee their home countries and seek refuge abroad, but internally displaced people (IDPs) outnumber international refugees almost two to one. Conflict, violence and natural disasters forced…

Iraqi refugee Sherak Dawood’s final days in his homeland were brutally instructive. A member of the Christian Assyrian minority group, he was kidnapped by an Islamist extremist group, beaten and given an invidious set of options: leave, convert to Islam…

Read about the latest news, research and initiatives from migrant and refugee settlement agency AMES Australia:   Records set in helping refugees find homes AMES Australia’s Accommodation Team has been setting records in finding housing for refugee clients in Melbourne…

A recent meeting of some of the world’s leading demographers has identified some major demographic trends that are transforming the world. The Population Association of America’s conference in Chicago analysed trends ranging from global refugee and migrant flows to changes…

Students from refugee or disadvantaged backgrounds can make the best employees, according to new research from the UK. Data collected by recruitment firm ‘Rare’ shows refugee children, far from being misfits or a drain on the state, actually have the highest average academic…

Hunger is a key driver of human migration and dislocation and coupled with armed conflict has led to the largest refugee crisis in modern history, a new study has found. As the world grapples with four separate potential famines for…

With 65 million people displaced globally and an unprecedented four simultaneous famines declared the UN’s new chief of humanitarian operations arguably has the toughest job on the planet. Add to that dwindling UN finances and the byzantine machinations of UN…

Conservative men with low education levels and strong nationalistic leanings are more likely to have negative feelings toward asylum seekers, new research has found. It may seem like an exercise in the ‘bleeding obvious’, but researchers at the Australian Catholic…

The United Kingdom’s next government should “do the right thing” for refugees by increasing resettlement quotas, reuniting more refugees with family in the UK and cutting the number of detained asylum seekers, the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR)…

Violence in South Sudan is threatening to escalate into a new African genocide, human rights groups have reported, likening conditions to those in Rwanda on the eve of the bloodletting there. A recent special session of the UN human rights…