A major refuge crisis is emerging in Nigeria with 3.7 million people now forcibly displaced. The number includes 3.6 million internally displaced people, most of who have fled Boko Haram and other militias operating in the countries north-east. There are…

Humanitarian aid workers on the frontlines of the world’s conflicts are being killed in record numbers, a new report reveals. With 280 aid workers killed in 33 countries last year, 2023 marked the deadliest year on record for the global…

A Melbourne winter night was lit up this month by a vibrant multicultural lantern festival. The inaugural ‘Luminous Festival’ took to the streets around the Queen Victoria Market and the Melbourne Multicultural Hub on the northern edge of the CBD.…

As international migration shapes as a key issue in the upcoming US presidential election, a new report shows that many American states would lose population without it. Among the states that would have shrunk in 2023 without legal migration are…

It’s called ‘refugee rentierism’ and it is a term increasingly being used to describe the way rich nations are outsourcing their perceived immigration problems. It basically boils down to financial arrangements struck between wealthy countries and poorer ones to stop…

In a recent speech at a conservative political event in the US, Donald Trump’s running mate J D Vance alluded to the city of Springfield, in his home state of Ohio, as an example of how unchecked immigration is damaging…

Refugees are experiencing worse health outcomes, including higher levels of diabetes, kidney disease, stroke and dementia, than the general Australian population, a new study has found. The ‘Health of refugees and humanitarian entrants in Australia’ study, released by the Australian…

Homelessness among refugee families in the UK has risen by almost 350 per cent, new data from the UK government shows. The report identified 4,840 families who have been granted refugee status were homeless between January and March this year,…

A new article provides a fascinating look at what is happening to the global humanitarian protection system as it grapples with rising human displacement and rising numbers of refugees driven by a larger and more protracted range of factors. Written…

Three years after the Taliban’s seizure of power in Afghanistan millions of people continue to struggle amid what is one of the world’s biggest and most complex humanitarian crises. Among a population of around 42 million, 24 million are deemed…

A new film explores the rich and complex multicultural fabric of Melbourne. ‘My Melbourne’, features the work of celebrated Indian filmmakers Onir, Rima Das, Imtiaz Ali, and Kabir Khan. It tells the true stories of marginalised people from migrant communities,…

Migrants generally have higher employment rates that Australian-born residents, a new report shows. The ‘Australian Labour Market for Migrants’ report, produced by Jobs and Skills Australia (JSA), says that migrants who arrived in Australia over the past 20 years generally…