More than 400 refugee and asylum seeker businesses have been established thanks to support from micro-finance not-for-profit outfit Thrive Refugee Enterprises. About $7.1 million in loans have been issued to refugee entrepreneurs with 93 per cent fully repaid. And an…

With more than 100 million people currently forced from their homes by war or persecution and estimates that a billion more could be displaced by climate change by mid-century, migration and refugees will be pressing issues for the world into…

When Afghan refugee Sanatollah fell off a building site in Turkey and broke his back it made his life even more precarious. Unable to walk or work, he faced destitution in a country that did not recognise status and was…

Almost $US4 billion has been pledged by private companies to support communities in Central America as part of US President Joe Biden’s effort to reduce numbers of migrants fleeing toward the US border. Ten companies, including Nestle, Target and Columbia…

The impact of climate change on human displacement has come into sharp focus recently with a raft of new data and initiatives pointing to a looming emergency. Climate Justice Activist Greta Thunberg and International Migration Organisation chief Antonio Vitorino have…

Melbourne recently hosted a major soccer tournament made up of Afghan diaspora teams from across Australia and around the globe. Sponsored by refugee settlement agency AMES Australia, 7Eleven and Melbourne City Football Club, the ‘Unity Cup’ tournament saw almost 50…

The US government has announced it will begin turning back Cubans, Haitians and Nicaraguans who cross the US-Mexico border illegally as part of a major re-set of America’s immigration policy. The move comes as part of an existing effort to…

At a small gathering at an art exhibition in Melbourne’s Docklands the quiet courage is almost palpable. Ukraine’s ambassador to Australia is meeting with a group of recently arrived refugees from his war-torn homeland. Ambassador Vasyl Myroshnychenko talks amiably with…

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…

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…

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…