Job advertisements in Australia rose sharply in May, prompting analysts to suggest that labour market hiring may spike in the second half of the year. According to the ANZ, the number of job postings increased by 2.4 per cent to…

Migrants to the United Kingdom have higher employment rates than British-born citizens, according to new research produced at Oxford University. Working opportunities and not welfare benefits are most likely “pulling” non-British EU citizens into the UK, the research says. EU…

The ostensibly irrelevant disciplines of physics and mathematics have been applied to Australia’s interminable and divisive asylum seeker issue with some surprising results. Prompted by immigration minister Peter Dutton’s recent comment about “innumerate” asylum seekers arriving in Australia, University of…

A controversy has erupted in the United Kingdom over Christian converts seeking asylum having their claims assessed on the basis of their ability to recite “Bible trivia”. An all-party parliamentary group on international religious freedom in the UK parliament says…

The pathway between leaving school or tertiary education and finding full time work has blown out from a year in 1986 to nearly five years today, a major education conference has been told. Australia Industry Group (AIG) Head of Workforce…

Sitting on his father’s shoulders walking through rice paddies littered with bodies left behind by brutal Khmer Rouge death squads, Hap Dan made a fateful journey to freedom and safety. For six long years his family had lived in the…

For modern refugees fleeing conflict or persecution, smartphones have become as important as food or shelter, according to new research. Phones are emerging as important tools in allowing refugees access to secure information relating to protection and safety, particularly in…

The Kenyan government’s announcement that it will attempt to close all of the country’s refugee camps, including the world’s largest at Dadaab, is a move that could displace more than 600,000 vulnerable people. The questions around what will happen to…

Being responsive to the particular needs of each individual refugee was the key to truly successful refugee settlement, according the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees’ man in Australia, Thomas Albrecht. Speaking at the Settlement Council of Australia (SCOA) triennial…

A compelling and visceral fine art exhibition opened in Dandenong this week giving insights into the plight of the Hazara people who have been the targets of genocide and exclusion for decades. Curated by Afghan Walkley Award-winning Photographer Barat Ali…

Refugees and asylum seekers are much more likely to die or become seriously ill than the general population because of barriers they face in accessing timely heath care, according to a new expert panel formed to address the issue. Compared…

As an ethnic Rohingya growing up in Myanmar and then as an asylum seeker in Malaysia, much of Nasim Ahmed’s life has been lived on the margins of societies which did not really want him. But the 38-year-old’s resilience and…