Migration
Featured books
The Age of Migration: International Population Movements in the Modern World by Publication Date: 2020
Law and Migration in a Changing World by Publication Date: 2022
Rethinking Migration: Challenging Borders, Citizenship and Race by Publication Date: 2025
Statistics
Australia’s national statistical agency.
The data database of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development.
Statistics and studies gathered by market researchers, trade organisations, scientific publications, and government sources on over 600 industries.
Provides a global centre for data on trade, energy, industry, environmental, demographic, and social statistics gathered from national and international sources.
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Organisations
Responsible for central coordination, and strategy and policy leadership in relation to immigration, border security and management, and citizenship and social cohesion.
Provides news articles, publications, current and past projects, and standards relating to asylum seekers and refugees.
Supports migrants and refugees with settlement services, employment assistance, and community programs. Based in Adelaide.
The leading intergovernmental organisation within the United Nations system, dedicated to promoting humane and orderly migration.
The national umbrella body for refugees and people seeking asylum and those who support them.
Journals and databases
An international, peer-reviewed open-access journal focusing on comparative research in migration, integration, and race and ethnic relations.
Differs from other migration journals by focusing on law and policy within the field of migration, as opposed to immigration and migration policies from a wholly sociological perspective.
Internationally regarded as the principal journal in the field facilitating the study of human migration, ethnic group relations, and refugee movements.
Covers first-class research on all forms of migration and its consequences, with articles on ethnic conflict, discrimination, racism, nationalism, citizenship and policies of integration.
A forum for exploring the complex issue of forced migration and local, national, regional and international responses.
Explores cultural differences, contributions, and influences in the global community.
Provides access to current and historical statutory, regulatory and policy documents. Published by the Department of Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs.
A bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts a wide range of media from published and unpublished material on all aspects of Australian immigration and multicultural issues.
Featured videos
A look through Australia's post-war migration history by the Australian Department of Home Affairs.
Video length: 9 min, 18 sec
The true story of the political forces and propaganda campaigns that attempted to populate Australia with “pure white” migrants.
An examination of the treatment of refugees by Western democracies.
The story of who was allowed in and who was pushed out of a daring social experiment to build the Australia we live in today.
A series examining the migrant experience in Australia, from the early colony of NSW until the 1980s.
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