It’s the world’s greatest migration event and there’s not a wildebeest or a waterbird in sight. About three billion trips are expected to be made across China during the Lunar New Year celebrations, including more than 350 million rail journeys…

A newly translated book reveals the significant impact emigree musicians, who came to Australia fleeing the Nazis in the 1930s, had on the cultural life of Australia. The Vanished Musicians by Albrecht Dumling, recently been published in English, traces the difficult…

Financial aid to the world’s poorest countries has fallen for the second year in a row as donor governments prioritise refugee costs on their own soil, according to anti-poverty group the ONE Campaign. The latest figures for 2015 show wealthier…

Australia needs to completely revamp its skilled migrant policies and offer more opportunities for permanent migration, according to a new analysis. The nation should completely rethink the way overseas worker arrivals and numbers are regulated – and just cutting back…

More than 10 per cent of America’s wealthiest people are from migrant backgrounds, according to a report in Forbes Magazine. The latest ‘Forbes 400’, a list of the US’s richest people, features several self-made billionaires who began life in other…

An innovative new Berlin-based website is helping to integrate the flood of migrants into Germany’s workforce with a tailor-made online job market for new arrivals. The MigrantHire website was founded earlier this year by a mix of Germans and migrants,…

Immigration control has been at the top of the British Government’s priorities but new data shows they have failed to deliver on the Brexit-inspired promise to cut the number of people entering the country. And the debate has become bogged…

Australia is becoming a nation of swots with increasing numbers of people undertaking formal study, latest Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) figures show. And study is increasingly the major pathway to employment, the data shows. But trends in the data…

Almost 50 million children are now displaced across the globe with 28 million of them driven from their homes by conflict, according to a new report from UNICEF. Millions more are migrating in the hope of finding a better and…

This week Iraqi forces recaptured the ancient Assyrian city of Nimrud which was mostly destroyed by invading ISIS forces defending nearby Mosul – itself also about to be recaptured from the jihadists. Nimrud was once the greatest city in the…

If you think, as most people do, that Melbourne’s vibrant brand of multiculturalism began in the 1950s with the arrival of Italian and Greek migrants fleeing post-war austerity in Europe – you’d be wrong. Long before the Italians brought their…

Refugees from Iran and Vietnam were among the winners in this year’s Ethnic Business Awards. Broadband Solutions, a company headed by Iranian refugee Sam Bashiry, won the major award in the medium to large business category. Mr Bashiry fled conflict…