One of the effects of the influx of asylum seekers and refugees into Germany has been a boom in the game of cricket. Migrants from Pakistan and Afghanistan are driving burgeoning interest in the sport – a story which is…

Inner city Brunswick is currently home to a full-scale pop-up structure that experimentally adapts the traditional guesthouse to reflect a new context – that of refugees, asylum seekers and other recent arrivals. ‘The Guesthouse Project’ was built during a two-week…

Australians are reluctant to change in the face of influxes of refugees and migrants but expect the new arrivals to adopt Australian culture and shed many aspects of their own culture and heritage, recent research has found. The study into…

The Australian Human Rights Commission has come up with an alternative set of policies it says would allow Australia to defend its borders in a humane way. The new approach was outlined in an AHRC report released last week which…

New research hopes to fill a gap in understanding of how young refugees make the transition to further education and employment and develop the resilience to build successful lives post settlement. A new study at the University of South Australia’s…

A new package of health and human service programs for refugees and asylum seekers has been launched by the Victorian Government’s Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS). Minister for Health and Ambulance Services Jill Hennessy MP and Minister for…

For Lebanese asylum seeker Salam Assaad, it has been a long and surprising journey from Beirut to Boronia. The mum of four is living in the ‘white-bread belt’ suburb in Melbourne’s south east – and her’s is one of the…

The US accepted its 10,000th Syrian refugee this week, fulfilling a resettlement pledge made by President Obama early last year. Under pressure from Europe and other countries confronting the global migration crisis last fall, President Obama raised the number of…

Migrant and refugee settlement agency AMES Australia welcomes the decision by the Victorian Government to include refugees and asylum seekers in Vocational Education and Training (VET) programs. Victoria currently hosts around 11,000 refugees and asylum seekers with either bridging visa…

The politics over immigration issues across Europe are growing ever more Byzantine and complicated as Turkey starts to assert itself after the July coup attempt, Britain’s role in a post-Brexit European Union is debated and France witnesses a new wave…

Non-government organisations working in the humanitarian sector are increasingly becoming beholden to their donors who in many cases are exerting influence on how and where aid is delivered, according to a raft of recent reports. Humanitarian executive and consultant Marc…

The stark differences between the Republican and Democrat parties over migration were laid bare during the US primaries. But the issues at stake were brought into sharper focus this week when it became increasingly likely that the Obama administration will…