Chinese migrants in Australia think the local media has fuelled suspicious or unfriendly attitudes towards them, a new study says. The research, carried out by the University of Technology Sydney, explores the hopes and fears of members of Chinese Australian…

A new book reveals how refugees resettled in America face a land of daunting obstacles and stymied ambition. The book ‘We Thought it Would Be Heaven: Refugees in an Unequal America’, explains how small things, often one person of one…

When Syrian refugee Mahmoud Alsayad arrived in Australia last month he was escaping the conflict and strife in his homeland. But he was also escaping sub-human treatment as a blind person. Ashamed of his disability, Mahmoud’s family made him sleep…

Syrian and Iraqi refugees who came to Australia as a result of the conflict in their homelands are overwhelmingly happy to be living here, want to become citizens and are optimistic about the future, new survey has found. The latest…

A new book tells the story of refugee Om Dhungel’s journey from a remote village in Bhutan to a human rights activist in Nepal and eventually to his work as a community leader in Blacktown, in Sydney’s west. The book,…

Almost 5.1 million people are now estimated to be displaced across Ukraine, according to a new report from the UN’s migration agency IOM. About 4.76 million people have returned home from displacement, of which 1.1 million have returned from abroad,…

Canada has recently unveiled an innovative new program to ramp up its skilled migration intake. The ‘Tech Talent Strategy’ is targeting highly skilled immigrants in STEM and high-growth sectors such as health care. And it is being described as “unusual”…

Last month marked 75 years since the start of the Palestinian displacement crisis, which is the world’s longest protracted refugee situation. There are currently 5.9 million registered Palestinian refugees across the Middle East. Many have no hope of obtaining citizenship…

The world’s refugee settlement programs are struggling to keep up with spiralling displacement crises, a new report says. The report, titled: ‘Improving Stakeholder Coordination in Refugee Resettlement: A path to more effective, inclusive programmes’, produced by the European arm of…

During June and July, Logan Art Gallery, in Queensland, is staging a showcase of artwork by Sha Sarwari that is provocative, yet understated, and visually stunning despite being subdued in colour and form. The Afghanistan-born visual artist, who arrived in…

A record 110 million people are now displaced across the globe thanks to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, conflicts in Syria and Sudan as well as climate-fuelled disasters and crises. See the UN’s latest data on the effect on human…

As a refugee forced to flee as a brutal civil war engulfed her homeland, Carla Zenieh found solace in art. Carla and her family fled their home in Syrian capital of Damascus in 2019 finding relative peace and security in…