India’s population is now one of the most mobile in the world with more than 450 million people having migrated to live somewhere other than their home districts, according to a new analysis. Researchers Amitabh Kundu and P. C. Mohanan…

Australia should announce another extraordinary humanitarian intake of refugees from the conflict in Syria, refuge advocate groups say. The call has come as the civil war in the country and humanitarian crisis deepens with the use of illegal chemical weapons…

With the global refugee crisis showing no sign of abating; and with the driver conflicts in Syria and Africa intensifying it may be timely to look at sixteen key facts that illustrate the massive scale of the crisis. Nearly one…

The federal government is considering encouraging migrant workers to settle in regional cities to tackle housing affordability at property hot-spots like Sydney and Melbourne, Immigration Minister Peter Dutton has confirmed. The putative move comes after Treasurer Scott Morrison has made…

Two of the world’s leading experts on migration and human displacement have laid out a ten-point plan to fix the world’s burgeoning refugee crisis. Oxford Univeristy professors Alexander Betts and Paul Collier’s new book ‘Refuge: Transforming a Broken Refugee System’…

Uganda is emerging as one of the world’s largest hosts of refugees as hundreds of thousands of people pour across its borders displaced by conflicts in South Sudan and Burundi. In recent months more than 400,000 refugees entered the East…

Patricia Weickhardt is an unsung hero of the suburbs. For twenty years, she has quietly gone about helping new migrants settle in Australia. As a volunteer language tutor with migrant and refugee settlement agency AMES Australia, her role ostensibly has…

Newly arrived migrants and refugees struggle to break into Australia’s labour market but can succeed if given adequate early support in job hunting, a new study has found. The study which surveyed a group of newly arrived migrants and refugees…

Migration and population growth is a key driver of economic growth and thus prosperity, according to a new study. Commonwealth Bank economist Jarrod Kerr, the co-author of a report on the impact of migrants on economic growth, said that that…

Refugees around the world have been caught up in global socio-political turmoil and local polarised politics is threatening to make their situation worse, according to the head of the International Rescue Committee (IRC) and former British Foreign Secretary David Miliband.…

It could prove to be a seminal moment in the history of African democracy and development. Last month Gambia’s disgraced president Yahya Jammeh boarded a private jet and headed for exile in Equatorial Guinea. He is said to have taken…

In predictions that closely mirror some of the xenophobic exhortations we are hearing around the globe currently in relation to migrants, a collection of experts is saying ‘the robots are coming to take out jobs’. According to a White House…