The developed world is becoming more insular, less welcoming and ambivalent to the plight of the planet’s most vulnerable people, if two new surveys are to be believed. The surveys paint a picture of the first world becoming inured to…

The migratory links between Australia and New Zealand remain as strong as ever, according to a new data analysis. But the new analysis shows periods of volatility and the historically dominant trend of flows of people from New Zealand to…

They say that politics and paradox go hand in hand. Britain’s ‘Brexit’ vote to leave the EU is a case in point and the fallout, which has already transformed both British and European politics, has more paradoxes than a hall…

A snap audit today of global leadership personnel would find Malcolm Turnbull forming a majority government by the skin of his teeth in Australia, Britain getting a new and untested female Prime Minister in Theresa May and Hilary Clinton about…

The voluntary repatriation of refugees from Burma living in Thailand is set to begin after the two governments announced a deal to cooperate on the move. Authorities will begin by checking the documents of displaced Burma nationals wishing to return,…

Tomorrow, Hashmat Najib will vote for the first time in his life in the 2016 federal election. The 22 year old is a refugee and an ethnic Hazara and would never have been allowed to vote in his homeland of…

Increasingly ruthless people smuggler operations using over-crowded, unsafe vessels is leading to a dramatic increase in drowning deaths among migrants trying to cross the Mediterranean this northern summer. About 2,800 migrants have drowned attempting to cross the Mediterranean Sea so…

The horrific Orlando massacre has polarised even further public opinion in the US on the issues of migration and providing a haven for refugees from Islamic countries. A spate of news reports published since the weekend outrage indicate that anti-refugee…

The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) has called on nations to integrate their migration and environmental policies as climate change becomes a major driver of the mass movement of people. IOM Director General, William Lacy Swing urged leaders to integrate…

A meeting of global Non-Government Organisations (NGOs) has called on nation states to increase the size and inmprove the quality of refugee resettlement programs across the globe as the number of displaced persons climbs above 60 million. A communiqué from…

People from culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) backgrounds face numerous barriers when it comes to accessing mental health care in Australia, according to new research. Language barriers, intercultural differences, knowledge of available services, and cultural stigma surrounding mental health are…

Statisticians in the US have developed the first model to accurately predict the way migration affects population projections. The researchers, at the University of Washington, have reduced the uncertainty factor of migration in population estimates – a difficult issue that…