The deaths by drowning of 27 migrants attempting to reach the UK in a small boat has dramatically underscored the toxic politicisation of the issue migration in Britain. The ruling conservative government has amped up migration as a public issue…

Disadvantaged young people from diverse communities across Melbourne will be supported into fulfilling and sustainable careers under an innovative new program being delivered by refugee and migrant settlement agency AMES Australia. In partnership with the Centre for Multicultural Youth, the…

A prominent Afghan journalist, now settled in Victoria after fleeing his homeland, has told how federal Minister Senator Linda Reynolds played a personal role in getting his family out of Kabul during this year’s dramatic airlift evacuation. Khalid Amiri says…

The UN’s refugee agency has demanded Libya end the abuse of refugees and asylum seekers who have been targeted with security raids and arrests in the North African nation. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has called on…

A new interactive map that identifies the world’s eight refugee movement hot spots where borders are being slammed shut in the face of people seeking safety. As desperate migrants face increasing and ever more dangerous ‘pushback’ efforts as they flee…

A new study delves into how competing narratives are shaping views and policy on migration across the world. The study by the US-based Migration Policy Institute, Metropolitan Group, the RAND Corporation and the National Immigration Forum is titled How We Talk…

Graphic illustrations that explore stories of migration to Australia will feature in a new online event at the State Library of Victoria. The free online event on November 9 uses comic books, zines and graphic novels from the library’s own…

Refugee advocates have called for a ‘climate humanitarian visa’ to be adopted as an avalanche of new research shows rising temperature will destabilise the climate around the globe, triggering extreme weather and forcing people to flee as refugees. New reports…

The federal government is set to increase the size and change the mix of Australia’s migration program following data that shows the living standards of ordinary Australians will fail to keep up with much of the developed world in the…

Afghans still waiting for Australian visas to allow them to leave the country are being targeted by the Taliban, their families claim. Several Afghans who recently arrived in Australia as part of the August airlift out of Kabul say they…

Vaccination rates have stalled in Africa, just as countries face a deadly fourth wave of COVID-19 driven by the virulent Delta variant, reports say. So far, less than four per cent of Africans have been fully vaccinated, according to the…