A National Multicultural Health Framework at the federal level, and multicultural health strategies at the state and territory level as well as prioritising the collection and reporting of accurate and consistent data are among the recommendations stemming from Australia’s inaugural…

I have been living permanently in Melbourne for the past 20 years and in 2023 my family and I decided to go back to Nepal for a year. I needed to go back to be with my family but making…

New Zealand’s government is making drastic changes to its immigration system to reduce the numbers of migrants arriving. The country’s Accredited Employer Worker Visa system is being redesigned to in a move the NZ government says will help protect migrants…

Some alarming trends in migrant deaths and disappearances have emerged over the past decade, a new report reveals. To mark ten years of its existence, the International Organisation for Migration’s (IOM) Missing Migrants Project has released a report that more…

Many refugees and asylum seekers have high levels of trauma from experiences before and during migration or while their refugee claims are processed, according to a new paper from the Australian Psychological Society. The report says these experiences can seriously…

In a landmark legal case in the UK, a Palestinian citizen of Israel has been granted asylum protection in the United Kingdom because he is likely to experience persecution or harm if he was forced to return to Israel. ‘Hasan’*…

A scandal has erupted in the UK over the treatment and welfare of children seeking asylum. Charities and child advocates have called for full scale inquiry into the treatment of unaccompanied children seeking asylum in the UK. The call came…

Muqtader Yousafzai was the youngest Afghan to be awarded a full scholarship to study for a PhD. In 2020, he travelled to India to take up his doctoral studies in business administration. But when, in October 2021, Kabul fell to…

Europeans are more worried about climate change-driven migration than the threat posed by Russia, according to a new survey. For Italians, the top three concerns were extreme weather and forest fires, climate change generally and the destruction of natural habitats.…

Refugees and asylum seekers are contributing more to the US economy than they cost, a new study has found. The study, titled ‘The Fiscal Impact of Refugees and Asylees at The Federal, State and Local Levels from 2005-2019’, by the…

Last year saw sharp rise in the number of new or deepening humanitarian crises – the highest annual number of declared emergencies in the last decade – according to a new report from the UIN refugee agency UNHCR. The UNHCR’s…

As freezing temperatures hit US cities, hundreds of asylum seekers are being evicted from homeless shelters as their 30-day curfews expire. The 30-day limit for individuals and 60 days for families was imposed by New York mayor Eric Adams as…