The US faces an ethical and political conundrum in the coming year with tens of thousands of Afghans evacuated to the US when their nation fell to the Taliban facing possible deportation. Without congressional action, the Afghans may be sent…

Australia’s major economic challenges could be solved by a better skilled migration system, according to a new report. A lack of productivity growth, growing debt in the federal budget and the economy’s transition to net-zero could be assisted by key…

A new wave of migrants is building up on the US-Mexico border in anticipation of the revoking of Title 42, a Trump administration COVID initiative which placed restrictions on asylum seekers. Migrants have already converged on the border city of…

Host countries must to more to protect the human rights of migrant workers, according to a new report from the UN Human Rights Office. The report, titled “We wanted workers, but human beings came”, analysed temporary labour migration programs in…

Syrian, Iraqi and Afghan refugees who arrived in Australia fleeing conflicts in their homelands have been on a trajectory towards happiness, employment and citizenship, a new survey has found. The ‘Longitudinal Study of Refugee Families’ carried out by researchers at…

Migration has returned as source of population growth in Australia, new data shows. Australia saw a net gain of 170,900 people in the last financial year through overseas migration as the COVID-induced border restrictions ended. New data from the Australian…

A new international initiative that aims to support refugees to open businesses in host communities has been launched by a global consortium. Created by the UN refugee agency UNHCR and the International Finance Corporation (IFC) and UNHCR, the prosaically named…

The Australian Human Rights Commission has published a new report that provides an evidence base and vital next steps for developing a coordinated, national approach to combatting racism in Australia. The report identifies data collection and education on racism, and…

The Archbishop of Canterbury has criticised the UK’s immigration system saying it is “grossly wasteful, staggeringly inefficient” and “cruel”. The UK Government’s proposal to send people seeking asylum to Rwanda was a mistake and would be a failure, the Archbishop…

Increasing numbers of Rohingya refugees are setting out on dangerous voyages across the Andaman Sea, according to a new report from the UN refugee agency UNHCR . From January to November 2022, 1,920 people, mostly Rohingya, travelled by sea from…

The first publicly available dataset linking information on human trafficking victims and perpetrators has been released by International Organization for Migration (IOM) and Microsoft. The database preserves the anonymity and privacy of trafficking survivors while providing an evidence base for…

Yusra Mardini, the Syrian swimming champion who famously helped to save fellow refugees on a sinking raft in the Aegean Sea, is the subject of a new Netflix movie. ‘The Swimmers’, produced by filmmaker Sally El Hosaini, tells the story…