Read about the latest news, research and initiatives from migrant and refugee settlement agency AMES Australia…   AMES successful in HSP tender AMES Australia has been appointed the Humanitarian Settlement Program provider in Victoria as well as in South Australia…

Victoria and Melbourne continue to lead Australia’s population growth reflecting the state’s attractiveness to migrants from overseas and interstate, new Australian Bureau of Statistics’ data shows. Victoria had the largest growth in terms of absolute numbers with 1.1 million people…

Migrants are more than holding their own when it comes to the nation’s bottom line with newcomers to Australia contributing as much or more in tax than native-born Australians, new data shows. An Australian Bureau of Statistic report on migrant…

Global sea level rises could create hundreds of millions more refugees by 2100, according to alarming new research. A study by US sociologist Charles Geisler found that by the year 2100, rising sea levels could force up to two billion…

Nial Aykan rushes into the interview room out of breath. Having just climbed two flights of stairs, the head of the Islamic Council of Victoria (ICV) is conscious of punctuality. He excuses himself and rushes into the ICV mosque for…

The first ever Refugee Solidarity Summit being held in Uganda aims to find support for the 1.3 million refugees in the country over the next four years. Opening in Kampala this week, the two-day summit backed by the UN, aims…

New archaeological evidence has emerged that paints a picture of migration in the ancient Roman Empire. Skeletal evidence shows that hundreds of years after the Roman Republic conquered most of the Mediterranean world Rome was diverse cosmopolis. But the research…

When a bomb almost claimed his daughter’s life and tragically killed her friend, Aghiad Al Atassi decided it was time to leave his home forever. Syrian refugee Aghiad had lived all his life in the once beautiful city of Homs…

Australia is seeing a boom in international education with student numbers rising 15 per cent in the first three months of this year compared with 2016. And Melbourne is the epicentre of the growth with the lion’s share of the…

Read about the latest news, research and initiatives from migrant and refugee settlement agency AMES Australia:   Records set in helping refugees find homes AMES Australia’s Accommodation Team has been setting records in finding housing for refugee clients in Melbourne…

Violence in South Sudan is threatening to escalate into a new African genocide, human rights groups have reported, likening conditions to those in Rwanda on the eve of the bloodletting there. A recent special session of the UN human rights…

Migrants have better business brains than workers in their host nations including in Australia, a new global study has found. An Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) report reveals migrants are often more entrepreneurial and more likely to start…