Graphic illustrations that explore stories of migration to Australia will feature in a new online event at the State Library of Victoria. The free online event on November 9 uses comic books, zines and graphic novels from the library’s own…

Refugee advocates have called for a ‘climate humanitarian visa’ to be adopted as an avalanche of new research shows rising temperature will destabilise the climate around the globe, triggering extreme weather and forcing people to flee as refugees. New reports…

Afghan community leader and restauranteur Homaira Mershedi has marshalled friends and community members to support recently arrived Afghan refugees with donations of food and clothing. They have also been raising money to support vulnerable people still in Afghanistan. Thousands of…

People in the world’s most advanced economies overwhelmingly see having people of many different backgrounds as a benefit that improves society, according to new research. A survey by the Washington-based think tank the Pew Research Center found that a majority…

Nobel Prize for Literature winner Abdulrazak Gurnah has used publicity around his award to criticise the “lack of compassion” of governments that treat migrants as a problem or a threat. Mr Gurnah grew up on the island of Zanzibar, now…

The federal government is set to increase the size and change the mix of Australia’s migration program following data that shows the living standards of ordinary Australians will fail to keep up with much of the developed world in the…

Looming economic and food crises in Afghanistan could create fresh flows of refugees in the region, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees has warned. UNHCR says the world should urgently provide promised aid to Afghanistan, citing a lack of resources…

Afghans still waiting for Australian visas to allow them to leave the country are being targeted by the Taliban, their families claim. Several Afghans who recently arrived in Australia as part of the August airlift out of Kabul say they…

US President Joe Bien is facing a backlash among progressive voters and organisations in America over his administration’s treatment of Haitian asylum seekers. Around 4,600 Haitians have been removed from the United States on repatriation flights from Texas to Haiti…

Victorian businesses, community groups and individuals have come out in droves to support newly arrived Afghan refugees who were evacuated from Kabul last month with offers clothing, food, and other help, according to refugee settlement agency AMES Australia. Almost 5…

Afghani women ‘Amina’* is an unlikely superhero. The diminutive, bespectacled Hazara woman brought her three children out of Afghanistan and to safety in Australia despite not having complete visas documents and while being on a Taliban hit list. As the…