Remittances now support one in every seven people worldwide, according to the UN’s International Organisation for Migration (IOM). Defined as “private transfers of funds by an overseas worker to an individual in his or her country of origin,” these payments…

The first Australians arrived in a planned migration that saw more than a thousand settlers sail here more than 50,000 years ago, according to stunning new research. A team of researchers led by Flinders University’s Professor Corey Bradshaw claims their…

Hundreds of Syrian refugees have been arrested after returning home as the war they fled comes to an end, according to human rights groups in the Middle East. Many have been interrogated, forced to inform on close family members and…

Australia has been rated the most attractive nation in the world for highly educated workers in a report released by the world’s leading economic research body earlier this week. It also performed well in other areas of the Organisation for…

Climate change has become the leading cause of migration, according to a ground-breaking new study. The research by a team at New Zealand’s University of Otago found that the effects of climate change, including floods and extreme temperatures, have become…

A fishing vessel that sank off the coast of Libya four years ago trapping hundreds of refugees in its hull has become the poignant and thought-provoking centrepiece of this year’s 58th Venice Biennale arts event. The art installation by Swiss-Icelandic…

As an asylum seeker without the right to work in Australia Liaquat Ali was struggling to support his young family and even put food on the table. But the ethnic Hazara, who fled persecution and violence in his homeland, turned…

Heartlands 2019 open for submissions AMES Australia invites young people from migrant and refugee backgrounds to submit digital stories reflecting their experiences, challenges, achievements and aspirations. Much of what we see in the media about refugees, migrants and emerging communities…

Canada appears to have made a sudden U-turn in its on-the-ground policy of welcoming asylum seekers and providing a safe haven for refugees. And the move is also likely to impact its international reputation as a refugee-friendly country. Prime Minister…

Head of the global refugee charity the International Rescue Committee and former British Foreign Secretary David Miliband has called for nations and individuals to defend international humanitarian law which he says is under threat from rising nationalism and xenophobia. In…

Almost a third of all people living in Australia were born overseas, according to new Australia Bureau of Statistics (ABS) data released this week. More than seven million Australian residents, or nearly 30 per cent of the total population, are…

The latest destination for Sri Lankan asylum seekers fleeing the fallout from the nation’s decades long civil war – and the latest political twist in the saga – is the tiny French administered island of Reunion, about 800 kilometres off…