Disputes over migration and its political weaponisation is as old as the human race, a new research paper claims. Researcher Deborah Barsky says that globalisation in the modern context, including large-scale migrations and the modern notion of the “state,” traces…

Canada has recently unveiled an innovative new program to ramp up its skilled migration intake. The ‘Tech Talent Strategy’ is targeting highly skilled immigrants in STEM and high-growth sectors such as health care. And it is being described as “unusual”…

New research by money transfer company Western Union says that without being able to send money home 40 per cent of migrants living in the UK believe their family or friends would be in poverty. The report, titled ‘The Value…

Asylum applications in the European Union hit almost a million in 2022, the highest level in six years, according to a new report from the European Union Agency for Asylum. Among the 996,000 applicants seeking protection in Europe are large…

Almost three million people have been displaced by the conflict in Sudan, in less than three months. The UN’s migration agency IOM says that as well as more than 2.2 million internally displaced people (IDPs), nearly 700,000 others have fled…

The issue of immigration is once again causing political turmoil in Europe with the Dutch Government collapsing over a disagreement between collation parties on asylum policy. The vexed area of reining in irregular migration was the final stumbling block that…

Australia’s efforts to offer resettlement opportunities to Afghans who had worked with government and military was well conceived but failed when it really counted during the fall of Kabul to the Taliban in 2021, a review of the program has…

More than 50 refugees and asylum seekers have been placed into jobs and cadetships supporting Victoria’s big build. Migrant and refugee settlement agency AMES Australia, in partnership with government agencies, contractors and consortiums working on Victoria’s major infrastructure projects, has…

Titan and Adriana are both figures from Greek mythology. They are also the names of two vessels recently lost at sea, four days and 6,400 miles apart. The five men who lost their lives on the Titan have been getting…

Last month marked 75 years since the start of the Palestinian displacement crisis, which is the world’s longest protracted refugee situation. There are currently 5.9 million registered Palestinian refugees across the Middle East. Many have no hope of obtaining citizenship…

The world’s refugee settlement programs are struggling to keep up with spiralling displacement crises, a new report says. The report, titled: ‘Improving Stakeholder Coordination in Refugee Resettlement: A path to more effective, inclusive programmes’, produced by the European arm of…

The UK government’s controversial plan to send asylum-seekers to Rwanda is has been blocked by an appeal court in what is a blow to the Conservative government’s vow to stop migrants crossing the English Channel in boats. The ruling by…