To mark President Trump’s first 100 days in office, a leading migration think tank has issued a fact sheet that analyses the effect of major immigration actions taken by his administration. The Washington-based Migration Policy Institute has looked at the…

Thousands of refugees face homelessness and destitution in the UK because of the country’s ‘two-tier’ system of resettling refugees and asylum seekers, according to a new UK parliamentary report. The report criticised the system which gives just 28 days’ government…

With more than three million people displaced and almost twenty million in need of protection or material assistance, the civil war in Yemen has become the world’s largest humanitarian crisis. Since 2015, of the 3.3 million people who have been…

Language courses geared to employment can be highly effective in getting migrants from non-English speaking backgrounds into work especially if they are begun soon after arrival, new research has found. And including work placements, which give migrants first-hand experience of…

More than 200 young migrants and refugees from AMES Australia’s youth program displayed skill, speed, teamwork and determination at the inaugural Netball Youth Cup.

Afghan refugees pressured by Pakistan to return to their strife-riven homeland face violence, hunger and homelessness, according to NGOs working in the region. The United Nation High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) says more than 600,000 Afghans returned last year from…

Two new scholarships for young people from refugee or asylum seeker backgrounds will help to support people newly arrived in Australia in accessing tertiary education. The Graham Sherry OAM Scholarships will be available annually to a young female and male…

After six years of brutal conflict, the number of refugees who have fled Syria for neighbouring countries has topped five million – almost a quarter of the nation’s entire population. According to the UNHCR, half of Syria’s population of 22…

The dire living conditions of persecuted Rohingya in Western Myanmar have been revealed by an Australian photographer who visited internally displaced peoples’ camps in the region. In 2016, Alister McKeith (also known as Ali MC) travelled to camps in both…

Refugees and migrants from West Africa are being bought and sold openly in modern-day slave markets in Libya, a UN agency has claimed. The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) says it has been told by survivors that the barbaric trade…

India’s population is now one of the most mobile in the world with more than 450 million people having migrated to live somewhere other than their home districts, according to a new analysis. Researchers Amitabh Kundu and P. C. Mohanan…

Christians will be outnumbered by Muslims by 2035 as birth rates in Islamic countries outstrip those in the west, according to a new demographic analysis. In recent years, more babies were born to Christian mothers than to members of any…