
6 things you didn't know about refugees and migration
Around the world, more than 281 million people are living, working or seeking refuge in a country other than their country of origin. People migrate for a wide variety of reasons and migr...
International migration specialist with over 20 years of experience as a practitioner, program manager, senior official, analyst, researcher and more recently in academia at the Australian National University. Currently, Head, Migration Research Division, International Organization for Migration (IOM), Geneva. Chief Editor, World Migration Report. Senior Fellow, Global Migration Centre, Graduate Institute in Geneva. Member, International Geneva Committee, Swiss Network for International Studies (SNIS), and elected member of the SNIS Scientific Committee. Published widely in academic and “grey” literature. Key publications include: World Migration Reports 2018 and 2020 editions (IOM with Prof Martin Ruhs and Prof Binod Khadria), “Enhancing humanitarian protection in Southeast Asia” (for Migration Policy Institute), “Migrant Smuggling Data and Research: A global review of the emerging evidence base, volumes 1 & 2” (for IOM), “A long way to go: Irregular migration patterns, processes, drivers and decision making” (for ANU Press with Prof Khalid Koser). 2012-15, Director, Irregular Migration Research Programme, Australian Department of Immigration.
Around the world, more than 281 million people are living, working or seeking refuge in a country other than their country of origin. People migrate for a wide variety of reasons and migr...
Twenty years after the 9/11 terrorist attacks by al-Qaeda, the country that was widely considered a haven for those behind the attacks – Afghanistan – is again without a functioning gover...