A new virtual photo exhibition explores the plight and resilience of Rohingya refugees from Myanmar living in the world’s largest refugee camp through the lens of Rohingya photographers. Almost a million Rohingya Muslim refugees live in the Cox’s Bazar area of…

When Mo Farah, a four-time Olympic gold medal athlete, revealed recently that he had been trafficked into the UK as a child and then forced to work as a domestic labourer, it made headlines across the world. In a BBC…

The number of Chinese people seeking asylum outside their country has grown steadily over the 12 years that Xi Jinping has been in power, new data from the UN’s refugee agency UNHCR shows. The numbers of asylum seekers have increased…

Both contenders to be the UK’s next Prime Minister have vowed to toughen controls on immigration and both have backed the Conservative government’s controversial policy of sending migrants to Rwanda. Former finance minister Rishi Sunak and foreign secretary Liz Truss…

Rising xenophobia, racism and hate speech in South Africa that is aimed at migrants, refugees, asylum seekers has drawn criticism from a group of UN human rights experts. The group of UN Special Rapporteurs warned that the ongoing xenophobic mobilisation…

A ‘second wave’ of Russians is fleeing President Vladimir Putin’s regime and his war in Ukraine, reports from Europe say. A ‘first wave’ of artists, journalists and others who opposed to President Putin’s regime and the war in Ukraine fled…

Newly arrived migrants and refugees have higher levels of trust in government and politics than Australian-born people but participate much less at community levels, new research has found. Using data from the Scanlon Foundation’s annual Mapping Social Cohesion survey, Monash…

The European Commission has warned that Europe faces another migration wave from the Middle East and Africa because of the food crisis created by the war in Ukraine. Ukraine is one of the world’s largest grain exporters but production and…

Employers groups are calling for an urgent increase to the skilled migrant intake, including a temporary two-year increase in skilled migration to 200,000 places a year, to tackle labour shortages ahead of the federal government’s Jobs Summit in September. Meanwhile,…

Millions of refugees and migrants across the world are experiencing poorer health outcomes than their host communities, according to the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) first ever report on the health of the world’s one billion expatriates. The poorer health outcomes…

Britain’s Home Office has been accused of “denying reality” by claiming that asylum seekers are “fine” with being sent to Rwanda, even after they have threatened to kill themselves in detention. Government documents published by the Observer newspaper revealed Home…

Most of the refugees who have fled Ukraine want to ultimately return home but around two-thirds expect to stay in their current host countries until the conflict ends, according to a new survey by the UN refugee agency UNHCR. The…