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People with foreign accents can experience discrimination, inequality, lower employability and they can be misunderstood, according to some new research. Accents can also subconsciously shape the way people interact and how meaning is interpreted, the research says. In an increasingly globalised world, foreign accents are an inevitable part of communication, but they can create barriers […]
The COVID-19 pandemic has increased poverty and unemployment for many migrants and their families, according to a new study by the International Organisation for Migration (IOM). The study by IOM and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), and based on…
Each weekday morning Ararsa Wakjira and his two younger brothers would climb aboard their bicycles and ride the five kilometres to their jobs at Ararat’s meat processing factory. At Ararat Meat Exports the brothers are employed in the physically demanding…
The Karen refugee community at Nhill in western Victoria has staged a fund-raising event to support people displaced in Myanmar because of the conflict that has followed the military coup in February. A day of music, food and dance performances…
Thousands of Karen refugees fleeing the armed conflict in Myanmar are stranded along the banks of a river that forms the border with Thailand with no access to shelter, food or medicine, aid groups have reported. The Karen, trapped along…
A new Trump-style physical and digital wall is being built by the European Union to deter migrants and refugees as people begin to move again after the COVID lockdowns. On the border between Greece and Turkey police are using long-range…
Migrants in Germany are pulling more than their weight in driving innovation in the nation’s hi-tech economy, according to a new report. Economists Oliver Koppel and Enno Kohlisch say migrants are making an “indispensable contribution” to Germany’s strength in innovation.…
State Minister launches AMES digital literacy program Victoria’s Minister for Training and Skills Gayle Tierney recently visited AMES Australia’s Werribee site to meet teachers and students and see the Digital Literacy pre-course in action. AMES Digital Literacy pre-course is a…
The latest World Migration Report from the UN’s migration agency IOM shows migration is continuing to increase at a faster rate across the globe but the orderly transfer of people has come under threat from rising nationalism and continuing conflicts.…
The Commonwealth Government has committed to a massive $74.6 billion dollars in spending aimed at creating a quarter of a million jobs over two years and boosts social services, including measures to support the protection of women and their social…
The growing exodus of Australians from cities to the regions is revealed in the latest data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). The data shows regional Australia experienced its greatest inflow of residents since the ABS started recording internal…
The poignantly piercing image of a young Rohingya girl that has gone viral on social media and the internet is becoming a symbol of the increasingly desperate plight of refugees across the globe. As the COVID-19 pandemic exacerbates the dire…
Leading contemporary artist and former Bosnian refugee Saidin Salkic has had his work recognised in a permanent exhibition to be installed at Australia’s consulate in Sarajevo. Mr Salkic, also known as ‘Mido’, is a prolific and unique Australian contemporary artist…