Sometimes an omission can say much more than an action. So it was at this week’s summit of Southeast Asian leaders, attended by Australia’s PM Malcolm Turnbull, held in the Philippines. Several worthy communiques and declarations were issued about anti-corruption…

From island nations in the Pacific being subsumed by the rising seawater to drought-wracked pasts of Africa, there’s a growing body of evidence linking migration and climate change. In a speech earlier this year, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres warned…

Just four years after arriving in Australia teenager Melika Dolatabadi is on her way to realising her dream of becoming a professional soccer player. The 17-year-old has just been accepted into an elite women’s soccer program. She will be joining…

A lack of local work experience and a foreign sounding name are among the barriers new arrivals to Australia face in finding work here, a new survey has found. It also found that migrants felt excluded by recruitment processes and…

  Innes Willox, whose organisation represents 60,000 businesses which employ a million Australians, says access to skills for the future is posing a real and immediate challenge. “We are going to run off the cliff very soon when it comes…

A new interactive map gives a fascinating insight into how the source of refugees to the US has shifted dramatically over the past 15 years. As the Trump administration moves to cut refugee numbers settling in the US, the map…

Akram Abouhamdan and his wife Joumana have just opened the first Syrian food shop on Lygon Street, in the historic Melbourne suburb of Carlton. The shop – which sells Syrian sweets and dips, baklava and hand-made pasta – is quietly…

Award-winning Canadian photojournalist Kevin Frayer has spent two weeks in Bangladesh documenting the lives of some of the more than half a million Rohingya Muslims who have fled Myanmar since late August His haunting black-and-white images give insights into the…

A new film tells the story of a country football team struggling to find players that recruits asylum seekers to save itself from oblivion. Produced by Anne Robinson, directed by Mark Grentell, written and performed by Damian Callinan, ‘The Merger’…

Australia lacks a clear and foolproof system to ensure refugees are immunised against preventable diseases, a new report says. Australia has one of the most comprehensive immunisation programs in the world. But many of the thousands of refugees who arrive…

An innovative program to resettle refuges at Nhill, a regional Victorian town, has moved into a second phase with more than a dozen businesses and organisations now employing workers from the refugee community. In 2009, a group of Karen refugees…

The BBC’s World Service has launching its biggest expansion in 70 years with 12 new language services delivering news and information. Part of a £289 million investment announced last November, the BBC is now delivering a  news service in Nigerian…