It’s the summer boat season in Europe. Everyone’s out on their boats, including tens of thousands of refugees from Africa making the trip across the Mediterranean. Not all of them make it. So far this year about 42,000 people have…

ELEANOR HALL: The tenth annual Lowy Institute Poll was released today and it paints a surprising portrait of Australians’ attitudes on foreign and domestic policy. A survey of 1,000 people found Australians see China and Japan having equal claims to…

More than 500 Afghan nationals who were employed in support of Australia’s mission in Afghanistan, together with their families, have now been granted visas to Australia under the 2013-14 refugee and humanitarian programme. Read more: http://www.minister.defence.gov.au/2014/06/02/at-risk-afghan-employees-settled-in-australia/

Refugee advocates lashed out at the Abbott Government after news emerged that hundreds of thousands of dollars that had been allocated for the country’s peak refugee body over a four-year period had been slashed. Core funding of $140,000 a year had been…

Australia’s Opposition Labor Party has reaffirmed support for the government’s policy of offshore processing of asylum seekers. Read more: http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/international/radio/program/pacific-beat/australias-opposition-reaffirms-backing-for-offshore-detention/1317622

MIGRANTS have shared their stories of overcoming mental health issues in the hope they can inspire others to do the same. Collingwood resident Kim Chua’s story can be viewed online as part of a digital storytelling project aimed at knocking…

Newspapers and media play a critical role in framing the discourse on immigration, according to a new report from the UK. Descriptive words and language used around terms such as ‘migrants’, ‘refugees’ or ‘asylum seekers’ can colour attitudes and influence…

Australia is witnessing a small asylum seeker baby boom as couples who have fled danger or persecution in their homelands feel safe enough to start or extend their families. Settlement agency AMES has reported more than 150 babies born to…

Crime rates are not affected by increased migration but by access to economic opportunity, according to new research from the UK. Dr Brian Bell, a lecturer in Economics at the University of Oxford, in the UK, said that common perceptions…

We see ourselves as one of the friendliest nations on earth, yet there are thousands of long-term visitors who’ve never seen the inside of an Australian home. But a new project run by locals is inviting new migrants, international students…

The Senate has passed a controversial amendment to the Migration Act that would prevent refugees who have received an adverse security assessment from seeking a protection visa. The amendment expressly excludes people who have been given adverse security assessments by…

Former Australian of the Year and Chinese refugee Dr John Yu has criticised the Federal Government’s immigration policy as dehumanising and unfair. Dr Yu delivered the annual Mosman Address last night in the heart of the Federal electorate of Warringah…