Australia’s major cities, including Dandenong, Casey and Hume in Victoria, are welcoming places for newly arrived refugees and offer the opportunity to find support and community while also speeding up their settlement journeys. And most refugees are positive about where…

More than half of job ads published in languages other than English are offering below the legal pay rate, a new survey has found, The survey, by Unions NSW, analysed 7,000 job advertisements in foreign languages across about a dozen…

Net migration to the UK hit a record high of more than 500,000 million people last financial year, according to new data released by Britain’s statistics agency. The rise in long-term arrivals to the UK was the result of a…

Displaced and refugee women are at increasing risk of gender-based violence because the global economic crisis, the UN’s refugee agency UNHCR says. The agency says worsening socio-economic conditions, new and ongoing conflicts and humanitarian funding shortfalls are contributing to the…

Australia’s soccer team has always been a reflection of the nation’s waves of migration and the current Socceroos are a case in point. During the 1960s and 70s the team was made up of mostly first-generation migrants from Europe. At…

Socceroo Milos Degenek has become a social media sensation after a heartfelt post following Australia’s win over Tunisia at the World Cup in Qatar. “Not a political post or a post about any war, just a post to show that…

The children of ISIS fighters freed from squalid detention camps are thriving, successfully reintegrating and building new lives in their home countries, a new study has found. The study, by NGO Human Rights Watch, comes as controversy rages in Australia…

A song about freedom and unity has become the anthem of Iranians protesting over the repression of women and minorities across the country. After the death in custody of Mahsa Amini, who was arrested by the morality police for not…

In the global south, extreme climate change will push vast numbers of people from their homes, with large regions becoming uninhabitable; in the developed world, economies will struggle to survive demographic changes with massive workforce shortages and an impoverished elderly…

More than 50,000 people have died on migrant journeys across the globe since a ground-breaking project documenting the deaths began in 2014, a new report says. The International Organisation for Migration’s (IOM) Missing Migrants has published an update saying that…

The Myanmar military regime’s repression of its critics has taken a new sinister twist with civilian quasi-militia groups carrying our torture and murder, human rights groups say. The NGO Human Rights Watch says that the Myanmar junta has effectively outsourced…

Australia’s TV newsrooms are still dominated by Anglo-Celtic reporters and presenters despite the nation becoming increasingly diverse, a new study has found. The study says more than three quarters of presenters and reporters on free to air news and current…