Three days after arriving in Australia with his family Iraqi refugee Osama Butti went for a walk around the neighbourhood where he was staying with his sister in Melbourne’s north. “Three neighbours – Australians – came out and welcomed me,”…

Chinese dissidents are the latest group of asylum seekers looking for refuge in South East Asian countries. Fears over the growing reach of Chinese security services on the part of many Chinese activists and a spate of recent disappearances have…

Slavery or forced labour among refugees and displaced persons is a burgeoning issue across the globe, according to two new reports commissioned by anti-slavery organisations. One report found a growing number of children whose families have fled the Syrian war…

In a desperate plea to action, musician and humanitarian activist Bono has called for a new ‘Marshal Plan’ to address the global refugee crisis through sustainable economic development prospered by humanitarian aid and support. World powers need to “act smarter,…

Yuhana Nashmi has just spent three months journeying around Iran, Iraq and Turkey recording the few remaining speakers of an ancient language, photographing crumbling manuscripts and documenting artefacts and sacred objects under threat of destruction. Yuhana’s work is part of…

Refugees fleeing war, violence and persecution have a much higher risk of developing psychotic illnesses than people who migrate for economic or social reasons, according to new research. Humanitarian crises in Europe, the Middle East, North Africa, and central Asia…

Five thousand kilometers east of Sydney and five hundred kilometers north-west of Rarotonga lies Palmerston Island, a remote Pacific atoll where unparalleled isolation has allowed a unique dialect to be preserved and untouched by outside forces that have shaped the…

‘Gentrification’, or the movement of middle class white people into poor non-white areas, is increasing inequality and division in some communities, according to new research. And the process is creating ‘polarisation’ within both schools and multicultural communities, the study says.…

More than 10,000 refugees seeking asylum in Hong Kong are trapped in a protracted legal limbo. Hong Kong is not a signatory to the 1951 Refugee Convention which established refugee rights and the responsibilities of nations that grant asylum. But…

Busting myths of refugee laziness and passivity, researchers from Oxford University’s Migration Observatory have demonstrated how refugees contribute to the development of a prospering and successful economy. While it is a common misconception that refugees living within refugee camps are…

Analysis The tensions that have erupted between Saudi Arabia and Iran over the execution by Saudi Arabia of Shia cleric Nimr-al-Nimr threaten to plunge the Middle East into deeper conflict and chaos with potential ramifications for Europe and Australia. After…

The Tasmanian curse of losing its population to other states has been reversed as new figures reveal a positive migration drift. Data released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) showed a net inflow of 158 people had moved from…