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…

Australia’s migration system is failing to attract the most skilled migrants; it is choked with bureaucracy and rife with rorting and exploitation. This is the shorthand appraisal of the nation’s migration system produced by the first major review in decades.…

A new book tells the story of refugee Om Dhungel’s journey from a remote village in Bhutan to a human rights activist in Nepal and eventually to his work as a community leader in Blacktown, in Sydney’s west. The book,…

Adult and community education is an important pathway for newly arrived migrants and refugees starting their lives in Australia, a major conference has heard. Adult and community education (ACE) provides benefits to people from diverse backgrounds through foundation skills such…

More than 69,000 refugees and migrants were supported to voluntarily return home last year by the UN’s migration agency IOM – a 39 per cent increase on the previous year, a new report reveals. IOM’s latest ‘2022 Return and Reintegration’…

Increasing numbers of migrants making dangerous, irregular journeys to Europe and the US have sparked a new wave of anti-immigrant policies and continuing political polarisation in wealthy destination countries, a raft of new data shows. New asylum and immigration restrictions,…

Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh say they will not return to Myanmar amid fears they will “be confined in camps” in response to moves to encourage their voluntary repatriation. Their refusal comes as violence against Rohingya refugees by local armed gangs…

Millions of people in the world’s largest refugee camps are facing a hunger crisis as aid agencies struggle to provide enough nutrition and food. And the situation could yet worsen as grain supplies from Ukraine are again blocked by Russian…

The scale Global forced displacement is at an all-time high, with the number of forcibly displaced people doubling over the past decade. Today, the global figure exceeds 110 million people forced to flee from persecution, conflict, violence and human rights…

Thousands of Syrians who had sought refuge in Lebanon because of the conflict in their homeland – including unaccompanied children – are being rounded up by the Lebanese army and deported back to Syria, advocacy groups say. The deportations putting…

Almost 5.1 million people are now estimated to be displaced across Ukraine, according to a new report from the UN’s migration agency IOM. About 4.76 million people have returned home from displacement, of which 1.1 million have returned from abroad,…

United Nations Assistant High Commissioner for Protection and Australian academic Gillian Triggs recently sent out a tweet that exposes a hypocrisy in the global conversation about human displacement. Professor Triggs, a former Australian Human Rights Commissioner chief, said: “Refugees are…