Japan granted refugee status to a record 303 people last year amid a tripling of applicants from the previous year. The numbers for 2023 follow a recovery in inbound travel, Japan’s immigration agency has reported. The total increased by 101…

Millions of migrants across the world do not have access to government funded healthcare that is available to citizens, a new report has found. The report by the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) found only half of the countries worldwide…

New Zealand’s government is making drastic changes to its immigration system to reduce the numbers of migrants arriving. The country’s Accredited Employer Worker Visa system is being redesigned to in a move the NZ government says will help protect migrants…

Some alarming trends in migrant deaths and disappearances have emerged over the past decade, a new report reveals. To mark ten years of its existence, the International Organisation for Migration’s (IOM) Missing Migrants Project has released a report that more…

This month marks the 30th anniversary of the genocide in Rwanda that saw almost a million people, mostly Tutsis, slaughtered in little more than a hundred days. The reasons behind the scale of the horrific episode are complex. They included…

The European Union parliament has passed tough new changes to its migration and asylum laws that migrant advocates saying undermine human rights. The result ignores the objections of Europe’s resurgent far-right parties, who felt it was not tough enough and…

A new book tells the story of one of the world’s refugee protection systems which saw hundreds of thousands of Muslims from surrounding lands were given sanctuary by the Ottoman Empire. ‘Empire of Refugees: North Caucasian Muslims and the Late…

Cath Scath, CEO AMES Australia The deaths of six workers who were fixing potholes when an out-of-control container ship destroyed a bridge in the US city of Baltimore is metaphor for the plight migrants across the world. The six men…

A new employment program is connecting newly arrived skilled migrants and refugees with employers who see value in their skills and experience. The ‘Settling Into Work’ (SiW) social enterprise works with employers who value diversity, practice inclusion, and who understand…

Ten million extra refugees could be the result of a Russian victory in the war in Ukraine. This is the view of German migration expert Gerald Knaus, who says this scenario could be ‘Horrific” in terms of the humanitarian crisis…

Australia’s population is projected to reach between 34.3 million and 45.9 million people by 2071 – up from 26 million in 2022, according to new modelling by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). But without overseas migration, the population will decline, the ABS…

Refugees and asylum seekers appear to be being swept up in an apparent clean-up operation ahead of the Paris Olympic Games. Reports from France say refugees living on the streets or in squats are becoming the targets of police raids…