The Falepili Union treaty allows 280 people from Tuvalu to migrate annually. The treaty could redefine sovereignty ...

Australia’s permanent migration system is incoherent, inefficient, and in parts unlawful. It delivers few new skilled workers while being clogged with family visas that, by law, should not be capped ...

A country’s ambition can be measured by its migration program. As birth rates decline, the ability for a country like Australia to enhance its capabilities will be reliant on its ability to import the ...

Following a review by the Australian Government Thursday into Australia’s migration laws, Minister for Home Affairs Claire O’Neill declared the nation’s migration system as “broken.” This arises from ...

BACKGROUND The components of urbanisation are important to understand, since urbanisation is closely related to development. Internal migration was key in historical urban transitions, while in ...

In Australia, a federal election may still be months away, but immigration — in particular the number of foreign students — is already a focus of political debate. Border control is again a key ...

The scale of human movement at the local and regional levels in agrarian states, called 'local migration' by Charles Tilly, can be quite extensive. I review several characteristics of such movement, ...

A recent study published in Nature Communications examines how increased levels of artificial light, specifically in urban areas, has contributed to increased bird deaths during their annual ...

The Division for Inclusive Social Development (DISD) of the Department of Economic and Social affairs (UNDESA) is organizing an Expert Group Meeting on “Megatrends and Families: Focus on Digital ...