Migrants for the first time are large proportion of people deemed to be homeless in Australia, according to newly released census data. The data shows the number of homeless people in Australia has soared by almost 15 per cent and…

The number of European Union citizens leaving the UK is at its highest level for a decade with 130,000 quitting Britain in the year to September, the latest figures show. But far more EU nationals – around 220,000 – moved…

Better use of data on migration could help turn human mobility into an asset worth tens of billions of dollars, the recent World Economic Forum in Davos has heard. A report released at the forum shows how investing in migration…

2018 marks 70 years since Australia’s modern migration system was conceived and the nation’s transformation into a vibrant multicultural society began. In 1948 two seminal things happened. The notion of Australian citizenship was created – before then we were merely…

They have faced repression, discrimination and violence at the hands of the Burmese military. Now Rohingya refugees who have fled ethnic violence in Myanmar are at risk of “a humanitarian crisis within the crisis” as the monsoon season threatens to…

Scotland is proposing to go it alone on immigration policy post-Brexit after the release of a report which shows 10 billion pounds would be wiped from the Scottish economy because of lower immigration. Under the proposal for new post-Brexit immigration…

Australian cities are seeing the rise of new highly ethnically diverse suburbs populated by professional migrants and entrepreneurs, according to new research. These so-called ‘super-diverse ethnoburbs’ are the result of Australia’s skilled migration scheme that, since the 1990s, has brought…

President Donald Trump’s 2018 State of the Union address has inflamed the US’ immigration debate while focusing comment on so-called “chain migration”. President Trump’s speech, in which he said he wanted to fix his country’s “broken” immigration system, has been met…

A new report by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has outlined a series of measure to ensure Australia’s workforce is equipped with the skills it will need into the future. And it says Australia’s cohort of well-educated,…

The British Government has been urged to drop its target of reducing net migration to just tens of thousands a year by one of its own parliamentary committees. The UK parliament’s Home Affairs Committee says, in a new report, that…

The British Government has been criticised by a parliamentary committee over its hostile approach and policy settings towards asylum seekers. The influential cross-party Home Affairs committee’s report as slammed the UK Home Office’s “hostile environment” measures, which include denying access…

Australia’s rich cultural diversity is shaping the brand of English we speak, according to new research. Work done by Professor of Applied Linguistics at Sydney’s Macquarie University Ingrid Piller shows multiculturalism is altering the way English is spoken in Australia.…