The European Council this week released a communique highlighting its achievements and claiming it had “regained control of illegal migration flows”. But data from Europe’s statistics body Eurostat and a report by the UK-based development and humanitarian think tank the…

More than 7,000 migrants have perished or disappeared in 2016, more than in any other previous recorded year, according to the International Organisation for Migration (IOM). An IOM survey on migration routes across the world found 7,189 migrants and refugees…

If Indian migrant Sravan Threerthala had turned his back on Australia after a drug-affected teenage thug plunged a large screwdriver through his temple and out the other side of his skull in an unprovoked attack in 2009, no one would…

The social interactions of different cohorts of migrants are captured in this video about an end of year celebration held by some Melbourne English language students. The video was made by student Iuoyuan Zheng.      

The federal government has been urged to allocate more visas for family reunification and speed up processing times for visa applications in a new report that highlights the distress separation causes to refugee families. The report by the Refugee Council…

Most countries have one or two official languages, but first nation peoples, multiculturalism and globalisation often mean many more tongues are spoken within a nation’s borders. Australia has a particularly rich linguistic culture according to 2016 Ethnologue Data, with a…

These days news from the Middle East seems always to be all bad. The Arab world accounts for 36 per cent of global terrorist attacks, and 43 per cent of global deaths from terrorism. It supplies around 58 per cent…

A year ago Canada was hailed as a humanitarian exemplar for opening its doors to tens of thousands of Syrian refugees. The nation’s pin-up Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made the most of the media opportunity as he greeted the first…

By Chief Commissioner of Police Graham Ashton This week marked an important moment for the future safety of all Victorians. As Chief Commissioner, I welcomed the State Government’s announcement that it would fund our plans to build a more capable,…

Young people from refugee backgrounds have been given a voice in identifying the barriers and issues they face as well as some solutions in an innovative new initiative. The Global Refugee Youth Consultations (GRYC) in Australia provided an opportunity to…

Pundits and prognosticators across the globe are now talking about the notion that we’re living in a “post truth” world; a time in which objective facts are less important than emotive narratives and fake news when it comes to shaping…

An innovative new Berlin-based website is helping to integrate the flood of migrants into Germany’s workforce with a tailor-made online job market for new arrivals. The MigrantHire website was founded earlier this year by a mix of Germans and migrants,…