Refugee children are high achievers with a strong will to contribute and connect to their host societies, a raft of new research has found. According to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), more than half of the world’s refugee…

Victorians from linguistically diverse backgrounds will have better access to interpreter services thanks to a funding boost from the State Government. Minister for Multicultural Affairs Robin Scott announced $21.8 million over four years and $8.4 million per year ongoing to…

At the end of World War II Winston Churchill famously said he thought the allied victory had bought “maybe fifty years” of enlightened politics and a focus on democracy and the rule of law in Europe. It’s arguable that he…

Newly arrived refugees overwhelmingly find Australia a safe and welcoming place that is relatively free from racism, a new survey has found. Getting stable work and seeing their children educated and prosper are the priorities for most refugees; and safety…

Migration in all its forms will be a megatrend for the rest of the century and is an inextricable part of the economic and social process of globalisation, according the outgoing head of the UN’s migration agency the International Organisation…

Residents of the world’s largest refugee camp have launched an initiative to clean up plastic waste that is also earning them incomes. Refugees at Dadaab camp, in north-east Kenya, are involved in a recycling pilot project was launched to mitigate…

Young Australians from refugee and migrant backgrounds feel a sense of optimism and belonging even though they are subject to discrimination, the first ever census of multicultural youth. The study also revealed that most migrant and refugee children are confident…

Migrant women coming to Australia on partner or dependent visas are suffering serious domestic violence often in silence as threats of deportation are used to control them, according to new research. And many suffer in silence as threats of deportation…

More than half-a-million international students are studying in Australia this year, according to new government figures. It is the first time the 500,000 benchmark has been reached this early in a calendar year, and is a 12 per cent increase…

Migrants are making Australia wealthy and not living on welfare or stealing the jobs of local workers, a new study has found. The annual ­permanent ­intake of migrants is forecast to add up to one percentage point to GDP growth…

Australia’s top end of town has a “dismal” lack of cultural diversity with just eight CEOs among the ASX top 200 companies coming from non-European or indigenous background, according to research by the Human Rights Commission. The research also found…

Australia is doing a good job of integrating migrant children into its education system, a new OECD report says. Migrant children, particularly those from India, China and the Philippines, are achieving better academic results than their Australian-born classmates, the report…