The number of internally displaced people (IDPs) around the world has reached an all-time high of 50.8 million, according to a new report from the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC). The Global Report on Internal Displacement (GRID) estimates that 45.7…

Refugees are being supported to settle and find work faster and more sustainably thanks to a new settlement support initiative that better coordinates services supporting new arrivals. The initiative, developed by migrant and refugee settlement agency AMES Australia, uses a…

Migrant students are 68 per cent more likely to participate in science subjects after the age of 16 than students from Australian backgrounds. And first generation migrant students are 35 per cent more likely to participate in science subjects after…

Restrictions on freedom of expression around the world are ramping up as more regimes use the COVID-19 crisis to crack down on criticism, according to the democratic think tank Freedom House. Freedom House researchers say that democracies and repressive governments…

A decade-long program to resettle refugees in a struggling regional Victorian town has added more than $100 million and 156 jobs to the local economy and resulted in positive social outcomes for the settling refugee families and the local community,…

There are fears of a fresh exodus of hundreds of thousands and perhaps millions of Syrian refugees as the conflict around the last rebel stronghold of Idlib enters what appears to be an endgame. Already, the UN’s refugee agency UNHCR…

The Victorian Government has opened a round of grants for Multicultural Festivals and Events Program and is encouraging organisations to apply for funding for events held between 1 July 2020 and 31 December 2020.   Small grants up to $2,000 (community…

A new book by acclaimed author Isabel Allende is an epic story of displacement, the search for a home and the battle between freedom and repression. And although set in the 1930s during the Spanish Civil War, ‘A Long Petal…

Migration is making the world smarter, spreading ideas and seeing the economic benefits shared by both the host and origin countries of migrants, according to a swathe of new research. Almost everywhere, and certainly in Australia, migrants are likelier than…

A new study shows how promoting cultural diversity can play an important role in achieving the successful revitalisation of declining urban communities.  The study focused on Dandenong, in Melbourne’s south east, which has undergone an urban renewal program over recent…

The Iranian community in Melbourne is “devastated” and “anxious” over the potential for an escalating conflict between Iran and the US, community leaders say. Iranian community members say they are worried about relatives still in Iran. Many say they are…

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s plans to introduce a new system for immigration after Brexit could cause a shortage of skilled labour, Britain’s peak employers group has warned. More than 70 per cent of 304 businesses surveyed by the Confederation…