As Europe increasingly turns the screws on migrants fleeing conflicts in the Middle East and Africa, resourceful refugees are finding a range of unlikely and surprising places to find safe havens. The options for Syrians, particularly, fleeing the war in…

Migrants to the United Kingdom have higher employment rates than British-born citizens, according to new research produced at Oxford University. Working opportunities and not welfare benefits are most likely “pulling” non-British EU citizens into the UK, the research says. EU…

Statisticians in the US have developed the first model to accurately predict the way migration affects population projections. The researchers, at the University of Washington, have reduced the uncertainty factor of migration in population estimates – a difficult issue that…

The United Nations Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) has launched a program to support former child soldiers reintegrate into their communities across the globe. The initiative comes as Colombia’s largest guerrilla group has agreed to release all of its soldiers under…

It is a quirk of history and the almost diametrical reverse of the current influx of refugees into Europe – but a new study has retold the almost forgotten story of an exodus of European refugees seeking safe havens in…

The ostensibly irrelevant disciplines of physics and mathematics have been applied to Australia’s interminable and divisive asylum seeker issue with some surprising results. Prompted by immigration minister Peter Dutton’s recent comment about “innumerate” asylum seekers arriving in Australia, University of…

The Vocational Education and Training (VET) sector needs a vital overhaul if it is to survive a deregulated, competitive environment, a major education conference has heard. And rogue operators need to be weeded out to ensure funding is spent efficiently.…

A controversy has erupted in the United Kingdom over Christian converts seeking asylum having their claims assessed on the basis of their ability to recite “Bible trivia”. An all-party parliamentary group on international religious freedom in the UK parliament says…

It has taken the brutal rape and murder of six-year-old Afghan girl in Iran to highlight the ongoing and systematic oppression of refugee minorities there. Little Setayesh Ghoreishi was allegedly attacked last month by her teenage Iranian neighbor Amir Hossein in the…

The pathway between leaving school or tertiary education and finding full time work has blown out from a year in 1986 to nearly five years today, a major education conference has been told. Australia Industry Group (AIG) Head of Workforce…

An agreement that aid financing must be more efficient and locally-driven, making education a humanitarian priority and encouraging a preventative approach to conflict and disaster relief are the major outcomes of the world’s largest ever meeting of the humanitarian sector.…

The refugee journey is one often told en masse, its humanity becoming lost in generalisations and ‘othering’, but a new book tells the personal stories of those that flee for safety, those who help them, and those that exploit them.…