President Donald Trump’s administration has been sued by human rights and civil liberties groups over its policy of deporting asylum seekers outside of the US in the first major challenge to the White House’s plan to send people seeking refuge…

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has fallen out with his nation’s business community over his plan to renege on a promise delay new restrictions on low-skilled workers entering Britain after Brexit. The UK’s formative immigration white paper, published in 2018…

Governments must take into account the human rights violations caused by the climate crisis when considering deportation of asylum seekers, according to a ruling by a United Nations human rights body. Kiribati national Ioane Teitiota brought a case against the government of New…

China’s annual Spring Festival migration – the largest mass human movement on the planet – and this year will see people make 3 billion trips Bringing much of China’s economy to a halt and straining its transport systems, the annual…

An innovative new game based on traditional Snakes and Ladders is helping to prepare newly arrived refugees and migrants to pass the Australian citizenship test. English teachers at migrant and settlement agency AMES Australia devised the game that incorporates information…

The Indian Government’s lurch towards Hindu nationalism is producing refugees from among the nation’s minorities who fear persecution, new data shows. Recent legal cases in Australia, Canada and New Zealand have established new precedents that people among India’s minorities have…

A year ago, the UN General Assembly adopted the Global Refugee Compact, hailed at the time as a historic framework for a fairer way for the world to support refugees. This month, world leaders gathered in Geneva for the Global…

As we farewell 2019, it’s worth looking back on the past 12 months and the seemingly unending sequence of protests, crises and political upheavals that dominated the news. Some of the most important events of the past year that will…

A snapshot of global migration trends has emerged from the latest World Migration Report (WMR), produced by the United Nations’ migration agency the International Organisation for Migration (IOM). The World Migration Report 2020 says the current global estimate is that…

Educating employers on the benefits of hiring refugees could improve employment rates among humanitarian entrants to Australia, new research has found. More than 80 percent of asylum seekers and refugees remain unemployed 18 months after arriving in Australia, largely because…

Newly released data shows migrants are making a more significant contribution than ever to the Australian economy. The data, from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) shows that the median employee income of all migrant taxpayers in 2016-17 was $49,438,…

After being forced to leave behind an affluent and successful life in Pakistan, refugee Alia Sultana has rebuilt her life through her passion for food and her knack for business.