She spent endless days and nights fleeing a warzone as a tiny child, first on foot through the darkness and then by boat after they shut the borders in her native Sierra Leone. But when Yarrie Bangurra saw the camp…

Two refugees are using YouTube and humour to break down stereotypes by creating a 10 part web series called Two Refugees and a Blonde. Actor and writer Osamah Sami and director Shahin Shafaei are both refugees who have drawn on…

Klaus Neumann loves telling the story of Egon Kisch, a Jewish Communist and anti-war activist of ethnic German origin who was born in Czechoslovakia. As a vocal critic of Adolf Hitler’s regime in Germany, Kisch’s books were burned in public…

A photo exhibition that launched in Melbourne on Thursday is telling the stories of refugee communities and their contributions to society since they arrived in Australia. Watch the clip: http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2015/06/04/exhibition-captures-refugees-contributions-australia

It is the world’s largest annual migration and it doesn’t involve birds or wildebeest. When more than 200 million migrant workers in China’s industrial cities return home to their villages each spring the nation’s transport infrastructure is stressed to breaking…

Any accent other than ‘Aussie’ causes irrational concerns of incompetence for customers, according to a new study. The research titled “The effect of service employees’ accent on customer reactions”, carried out by marketing and business experts at the University of Adelaide,…

THE little orphan treads carefully, as though the soft ground underneath him was a minefield in his homeland instead of harmless Queensland mud. The 50kg 15-year-old tiptoes around the boggy ground as he makes his way out onto his school…

A short walk from Vienna’s famous Prater parkland sits a unique hotel where the guests are not the only travellers present. The recently opened Magdas Hotel stands as solid, bricks-and-mortar evidence of the benefits of employing refugees. All but five…

Hundreds of demonstrators gather in Sydney to protest against Australia’s policies on refugees and asylum seekers, in the city’s biggest rally of its kind for more than a year. Read more: http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/international/2015-04-19/hundreds-gather-in-sydney-protesting-against-refugee-and-asylum-seeker-policy/1438602

Australia’s oldest Karen World War Two veteran is preparing to march in his sixth Anzac Day parade. Bordy Weeku will be wearing the medals that he smuggled out of Burma and kept hidden for two decades in a refugee camp.…

A YOUNG African-Australian is speaking up about mental health in her community. University student Tabotu Teklemariam is determined to get her community talking about issues such as suicide, depression and bullying, rather than dealing with them in silence. Read more: http://www.heraldsun.com.au/leader/north-west/afrocare-to-tackle-mental-health-issues-in-african-australians/story-fnrvvn43-1227301781177

Sri Lankan refugee Kumar sits shaping coconut shells into jewellery. In the half-light of a suburban backyard at dusk he is grinding and carving pieces of coconut into unique pieces of art. It was a skill he learned locked up…