Books & Arts
9 February 2024
A great number of migrants left China’s Zhongshan county for Australia — but the traffic wasn’t always one way
Essays & Reportage
8 February 2024
Communist or not, postwar refugees from the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe attracted the attention of Australia’s security services
Correspondents
6 February 2024
What’s behind the biggest protests in recent German history?
Essays & Reportage
20 December 2023
Western leaders are distancing themselves from the Hindu nationalism popular in some sections of India’s diaspora
National Affairs
16 December 2023
The government has outlined its vision for skilled migration but it still has lots of colouring in to do
Essays & Reportage
23 November 2023
Shaped by history, Sylvie Leber and her forebears have campaigned for social change
Books & Arts
21 November 2023
Caught between their home villages and the city, a generation of Chinese migrant workers struggles for intimacy
Books & Arts
25 October 2023
Cash-strapped microstates are selling citizenship that opens doors for the wealthy non-Western elite
Books & Arts
29 September 2023
Historian Graeme Davison explores powerful forces below history’s horizon
Essays & Reportage
17 September 2023
Sent to Australia as an “enemy alien” by Churchill’s government, Bern Brent spent decades challenging conventional accounts of the internees’ lives
Essays & Reportage
2 August 2023
Designed for grandparents wanting to spend time with family in Australia, this new long-stay visa has proved surprisingly unpopular
International
9 June 2023
The fate of a displaced people lies at the heart of the war in Ukraine — and how it might be resolved
Books & Arts
8 May 2023
Who’s in and who’s out in the new Germany?
National Affairs
28 April 2023
Labor has taken bold steps towards recasting Australia’s migration system, but difficult questions remain
International
31 March 2023
Let’s start with the good news about Australia–India relations
Books & Arts
4 September 2022
Some exiles are enriched by their journey, others “killed and yet alive”
Books & Arts
18 December 2021
The perceived threat posed by Europe’s postwar “Displaced Persons” helped shape today’s international refugee regime
Essays & Reportage
17 December 2021
Singapore is good at solving economic problems, but its political stagnation is stopping it from dealing with urgent social challenges
Essays & Reportage
8 December 2021
Has the significance of the Tampa affair been exaggerated?
Essays & Reportage
22 November 2021
How can we improve Australia’s uneasy engagement with the global human rights system?
Essays & Reportage
1 October 2021
The predicament of refugees at the Polish–Belarusian border evokes deportations to Poland in 1938 and a novel published in 1940
Essays & Reportage
3 September 2021
Can we use a once-in-a-lifetime pandemic to help us rethink our treatment of refugees?
Essays & Reportage
28 August 2021
A fateful stand-off in August 2001 saw Australia’s treatment of boat arrivals shift from deterrence by example to deterrence by force
National Affairs
23 August 2021
The prime minister is gripped by myths about asylum seekers that have hardened into articles of faith on both sides of parliament
National Affairs
12 August 2021
Twenty years — and many billions of dollars — later, Australia’s failed system of offshore detention lingers on
Books & Arts
25 July 2021
Why did French culture matter not only to French migrants but also to colonial Australians?
Essays & Reportage
28 May 2021
The pandemic has increased the bargaining power of seasonal workers in rural Australia. But how long will that last?
Correspondents
20 April 2021
A Jew in Nazi Germany, a communist in Robert Menzies’s Australia, an Australian in East Germany — the remarkable life of Walter Kaufmann
National Affairs
1 April 2021
The national identities ascribed to Australia’s postwar migrants masked a striking diversity of backgrounds and attitudes
Books & Arts
1 April 2021
Books | Sheila Fitzpatrick’s new book tells a remarkable cold war migration story