Conflict between parents and their teenage children is occurring in newly-arrived migrant families in Victoria because of social, cultural and financial challenges they and their communities face, new research has found. The research, carried out by Deakin University, found that…

While the migration crisis in Europe and the Middle East has received blanket media coverage for more than four years, a new refugee tragedy is quietly unfolding in Central America. The United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) has reported…

Majid Rezai and Nayran Tabai are refugees twice over. In 2010, for the second time in their lives, the couple were forced to flee their home, leaving behind their possessions, friends, and established lives when the Damascus café they operated…

Breaking down cultural barriers through breaking bread has long been the backbone for embracing migrants and refugees to Australia. This idea of foods’ ability to unite people is explored in a new cookbook that shares the journey of sixteen asylum…

One is a television fantasy drama and the other one of the most interminable and complex challenges facing humanity. But the TV hit ‘Game of Thrones’ and the Syrian refugee crisis intersected this month when novelist George R.R. Martin took…

A new initiative has been proposed to improve religious literacy to ensure religious freedom is appropriately considered in legislative and regulatory reform. Religious freedom advocates plan to take action to increase education on religion within government and the public service…

The news media has this month been dominated by the tragic attacks in Paris. But, perhaps surprisingly, it is not Europe – and not even Beirut – that is the epicentre of global terror attacks; and Islamic State is not…

Indonesia remains a difficult place for asylum seekers with the incidence of violence against them rising and their official status in limbo. More than a thousand Rohingya asylum seekers in the northern province of Aceh still do not know their…

Thousands of Afghans are fleeing their country as the civil war there gathers steam creating a new exodus of refugees seeking safety. Iran and Pakistan, which house most of the Afghan refugees from previous cycles of violence, have become increasingly…

Migration is shaping the world’s great cities like never before with three million extra people moving to dense urban areas every week, a new report says. And with nearly one in five of the population of the globe’s big cities…

Successive federal governments have been negligent in the debate around multiculturalism giving extremists groups the opportunity to dominate the argument, according to leading sociologist Professor Andrew Jakubowicz. He says the failure in Australia to stop radicalisation is in part due…

Princeton University Professor, Angus Deaton, has won the Nobel Prize in economics for his ground-breaking analysis of consumption, poverty and welfare. The Nobel Prize committee recognised Deaton’s vital contribution to the study of consumer spending, with particular attention to the…