The phrase ‘quiet achiever’ may have never been more appropriate than when applied to a small micro finance outfit that is doing big things when it comes to supporting refugees to start their own businesses. More than 170 refugee businesses…

Job opportunities are bouncing back in Australia in the wake of the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic and the broad lockdowns it brought, new data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) shows. The health and social care, administration and…

Support for Australia’s multicultural society remains high with 80 per cent of people agreeing that it is ‘a good thing for a society to be made up of people from different cultures’, according to a new survey of social wellbeing…

Refugees and asylum seekers are being falsely blamed for spreading the COVID-19 virus and face stigma and discrimination as the pandemic causes an economic and health crisis across the world, experts say. The UN refugee agency UNHCR says the pandemic…

A digital divide is affecting migrant and refugee household disproportionately during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to new research from the US-based Migration Policy Institute (MPI). According to MPI researcher Alexis Cherewka, the digital access is defined as an individual’s ability…

Three quarters of refugee aid organisations operating in Uganda have effectively been closed because of a crackdown by the Ugandan Government over compliance with rules. The move affects more than 200 agencies, including 85 international groups, who have been accused…

The broad sunlit fruit blocks and paddocks of Mildura are a world away from forested hills of Burundi. But for one Burundian refugee, life in the Victorian city is offering the chance to rebuild a way of life lost in…

Having fled deadly violence in Myanmar’s Rakhine state three years ago, over a million Rohingya refugees still live in sprawling camps in Bangladesh. Despite repatriation attempts, the refugees are yet to return home. The camps at, Cox’s Bazar, are home…

The US is facing a fresh wave of migrants from Mexico driven by a COVID-19-fuelled economic collapse, a raft new studies say. Mexico’s economy is expected to shrink by ten per cent this year. But even before the pandemic, business…

The skills of migrant health professionals are going unused in the US as the COVID-19 pandemic sweeps the nation claiming thousands of lives each day, according to a new report. Research by the Washington-based Migration Policy Institute (MPI) found that…

A new study has identified the keys to successfully communicating messages about fighting COVID-19 to members of culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) communities. Researchers from Monash University reached out to some of Victoria’s diverse communities to find out if the…

A raft of new studies show that exiled refugee families in the Middle East are falling further into poverty and their children are missing out on an education. Reports by Refugees International, the International Rescue Committee, Human Rights Watch and…