Amer Gerges’ final decision to leave behind his home and his life behind came when artillery shells slammed into buildings near his home during fighting between ISIS and the Syrian army and leaving much of his neighbourhood in ruins. Mr…

Australians are reluctant to change in the face of influxes of refugees and migrants but expect the new arrivals to adopt Australian culture and shed many aspects of their own culture and heritage, recent research has found. The study into…

The Australian Human Rights Commission has come up with an alternative set of policies it says would allow Australia to defend its borders in a humane way. The new approach was outlined in an AHRC report released last week which…

Permanent or long term migration into Australia appears to be stabilising with totals of new arrivals topping 266,000 in the year to August, according to latest Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) figures. The number of permanent settlers arriving each year…

One single migration out of Africa 60,000 years ago produced nearly all the modern Eurasian populations, new research has found. Some researchers had theorised that the ancestors of Australia’s Aborigines were the first modern humans to surge out of Africa,…

A new approach is needed to tackling the world’s refugee situation, according to an Australian recently appointed to a key leading role at the UN’s High Commission for Refugees. Andrew Harper AM has this week taken up a role in…

Natural disasters and climatic events are emerging as a major cause of the displacement of people across the planet. Last year an unprecedented 19.2 million people were displaced by natural hazards in 113 countries, according to the United Nations’ Disaster…

Refugee families are being separated and finding it difficult to reunite amid the current global crisis – and EU nations’ migration policies are making things worse, a new report has found. The European Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) has reported…

New research hopes to fill a gap in understanding of how young refugees make the transition to further education and employment and develop the resilience to build successful lives post settlement. A new study at the University of South Australia’s…

The top ten best ideas that improve life for refugees have been identified and commended by a European not-for-profit organisation. Danish charity INDEX: Design to Improve Life has come up with a list of innovative designs created in the past…

An announcement by Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull at the recent United Nations Summit for Refugees and Migrants that Australia would accept refugees from Costa Rica took many by surprise. Australia has not seen large numbers of refugees from Central America…

Take a drive through Footscray or a dozen other western Melbourne suburbs this week and you’ll see an astonishing sight. The power poles and public buildings are all decked out in red, white and blue – the colours of the…