‘Najaf’ was the last man to leave the Australian embassy in Kabul when it closed in late May this year. As the building’s plumber and handyman, it was his job to lock the doors after all of the diplomatic staff…

A small hole in a fence, a kindly US marine and a borrowed power charger were the difference between freedom and safety – and an uncertain and possibly grim fate for Afghan refugee ‘Nazari’. Nazari* (not his real name) and…

Moved by the images of the body of three-year-old Syrian refugee Alan Kurdi washed up on a Turkish beach in 2014, the then Australia Prime Minister Tony Abbott announced Australia would accept an extra 12,000 refugees from Syrian and Iraq…

A prominent Afghan journalist, now settled in Victoria after fleeing his homeland, has told how federal Minister Senator Linda Reynolds played a personal role in getting his family out of Kabul during this year’s dramatic airlift evacuation. Khalid Amiri says…

An Afghan couple evacuated by air from Kabul in mid-August as the Taliban took control have had a baby born in Melbourne. ‘Shafiq’ and his wife ‘Amira’ welcomed baby son Ibrahim on September 23. The baby was born prematurely but…

A new job creation initiative is securing the futures of refugees and asylum seekers by setting them up with their own businesses. The ‘Business in a Box’ scheme, a pioneered by refugee micro-finance provider Thrive, is seeing refugees and asylum…

The UN’s refugee agency has demanded Libya end the abuse of refugees and asylum seekers who have been targeted with security raids and arrests in the North African nation. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has called on…

A new interactive map that identifies the world’s eight refugee movement hot spots where borders are being slammed shut in the face of people seeking safety. As desperate migrants face increasing and ever more dangerous ‘pushback’ efforts as they flee…

The US has announced a new program to allow groups of private citizens to sponsor Afghan refugees to resettle in America. The Biden administration has brought more than 65,000 Afghans to military bases across the country after the evacuation airlift…

As economic and social conditions continue to deteriorate in Venezuela, desperate would be migrants have found a new and dangerous maritime route out of the country. Increasingly desperate residents of the country’s Caribbean coast are choosing a dangerous sea crossing…

The National Disability Insurance Scheme Insurance Scheme (NDIS) is too complex and too inflexible for many people from diverse backgrounds, multicultural agencies say. And disability support agencies say stigma around disability must also be addressed if CALD participation rates within the…

A new study delves into how competing narratives are shaping views and policy on migration across the world. The study by the US-based Migration Policy Institute, Metropolitan Group, the RAND Corporation and the National Immigration Forum is titled How We Talk…