Former Afghan military personnel who fought alongside British troops are being threatened with deportation to Rwanda after seeking asylum in the UK. One is an army colonel who fought alongside British troops and fled to the UK on a small…

Australia has taken on the lead role in the annual United Nations refugee resettlement consultation gathering in Geneva. Australia is the new chair of the Annual Tripartite Consultations on Resettlement (ATCR), which has been renamed the ‘Consultations on Resettlement and…

About 140,000 parent visa applications are currently awaiting approval in Australia and the lengthy and cumbersome application process, often spanning decades, has left many families in a state of uncertainty, according to a new report. In the latest Scanlon Foundation…

More Australians feel safe than did last year, their belief in democracy remains strong and they remain relatively hopeful about Australia’s economic outlook. And support for the nation’s migration program remains high but three years of global turmoil have left…

A prolonged drought in the Horn of Africa which has come hard on the heels of a brutal civil war has brought life-threatening food shortages to Ethiopia. The UN Refugee Agency UNHCR has said five failed rainy seasons since 2019…

A record 250,000 migrants have risked their lives on one of the world’s most dangerous land crossings so far this year. Desperate migrants from Venezuela, Haiti and elsewhere have the crossed the infamous Darien Gap in the last eight months,…

A new exhibition which re-examines how Jewish refugees fled to Shanghai during WWII has lessons for the current global displacement crisis. The ‘Shanghai, Homeland Once Upon a Time — Jewish Refugees and Shanghai’ exhibition, which opened in New York this…

The UK government is facing a backlash over plans to house asylum seekers in tents as part of the government’s controversial migration and asylum policies. British media has reported that UK Home Secretary Suella Braverman is working on plans to…

Burmese refugee Dr Kyaw* was looking forward to successful medical career in his homeland when his world was turned upside down. A doctor in Myanmar’s largest city, Yangon, Kyaw was set to become a medical specialist and had dreams of…

When tech entrepreneur and philanthropist John Cameron met a young Kurdish refugee who was working with Amnesty International it was a light bulb moment. “At a dinner hosted by Amnesty, I met a young man who was working with the…

Newly arrived migrants and refugees in Australia are largely unaware and confused about the proposal to create an Indigenous Voice to Parliament, a new survey has found. An overwhelming majority of newcomers know little about The Voice proposal or the…

The intersection between migration and the vocational and higher education sectors will be key in providing the skills Australia will need into the future, a major conference has heard. The Director of Jobs and Skills Australia (JSA) Professor Peter Dawkins…