Amid the fierce political debate about figures and systems, it’s easy to lose sight of the purpose of migration, to ...

Australia’s migration system is complicated. It’s heavily influenced by politics and global pressures, which can make it ...

This essay is part of The Great Migration, a series by Lydia Polgreen exploring how people are moving around the world today. We are living in an age of mass migration. Millions of people from the ...

Images of families displaced by floods, prolonged droughts or extreme storms have become a distressingly regular feature of the daily news. As the impact of climate change intensifies, so does concern ...

The Government has vowed one of its top priorities is to stop illegal migration, with US President Donald Trump even wading into the debate to say an option would be to call in the military. Here, the ...