Global net-migration patterns are more strongly linked with socio-economic factors rather than climate change, according to new research. The researchers, from Aalto University, Finland, and the University of Bologna, Italy, took birth and death data from 216 countries or sovereign states…

Record numbers of child migrants are on the move through Latin America and the Caribbean facing dangerous journeys, violence, exploitation and abuse, a new UN report says. The child migrants have been driven from their homes by gang violence, instability,…

Australia’s population has grown to almost 26.5 million people thanks mostly to migration, according to new data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). The data shows Australia was home to 26,473,055 people as of 31 March 2023. That amounts to…

Almost half of migrant and refugee women have experienced sexual harassment in the workplace over the past five years, a new study has found. Many are being harassed by their senior colleagues and many feel under pressure not to report…

Having an ethnic name is a barrier to progressing through a job application and scoring an interview or call back, a new study has found. And ethnic discrimination is particularly pronounced when it comes to recruitment for leadership positions. Lead…

The numbers of people displaced by the civil war in Sudan has nearly doubled since the start of the conflict, according to new data from the UN’ migration agency the International Organisation for Migration’s (IOM) IOM’s Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM)…

In the past few months Italy has undergone a quiet transformation in its approach to migration. Before becoming Italy’s Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni was one of the most strident voices on migration in the European Union. In opposition politician, she…

Chinese migrants in Australia think the local media has fuelled suspicious or unfriendly attitudes towards them, a new study says. The research, carried out by the University of Technology Sydney, explores the hopes and fears of members of Chinese Australian…

A new book reveals how refugees resettled in America face a land of daunting obstacles and stymied ambition. The book ‘We Thought it Would Be Heaven: Refugees in an Unequal America’, explains how small things, often one person of one…

A new suicide prevention app has the potential to save lives in multicultural communities, its creators say. The ‘Prevent a Suicide: What to say’ app produced by the Australian Suicide Prevention Foundation (ASPF) will have a translation function to help people…

Rwanda’s involvement in the UK’s controversial asylum seeker processing plans has shone a light on the African nation’s own approach to refugees and migration. And the picture is complicated one. Rwanda is a nation that is in the grip of…

When Syrian refugee Mahmoud Alsayad arrived in Australia last month he was escaping the conflict and strife in his homeland. But he was also escaping sub-human treatment as a blind person. Ashamed of his disability, Mahmoud’s family made him sleep…