Destination Australia The Australian Burau of Statistics (ABS) released on 28 April 2020 mentioned that for the year ending 30 June 2019: There were over 7.5 million migrants living in Australia. 29.7% of Australia’s population were born overseas. Australia’s population increased by 239,600 people due to net overseas migration. The statistics figure mentioned that Out […]
The exceptional situation brought in by COVID-19 has made the nations across the world fight against the consequential effects of the global pandemic. Ipso facto, international migrants are in a huge crisis as the sealing of international boundaries has rendered them ‘homeless.’ Needless to say, the undocumented migrant workers are facing severe repercussions. Thus, the
On the 16th of June 2020, the Global Research Forum on Diaspora and Transnationalism [GRFDT] held a virtual panel discussion on the topic “Will there be Brain Drain Again post COVID-19?” Dr Alan Gamlen, Associate Professor of Geography at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia and a long-standing Research Associate at Oxford University’s Centre of Migration,
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On the 10th of May 2020, the Global Research Forum on Diaspora and Transnationalism [GRFDT] held a panel discussion on ‘Migrants and Immigrants during COVID 19: Country Specific Cases.’ Professor Biman Prasad, Member of Parliament in Fiji and former Professor at the University of South Pacific, Fiji, discussed the unprecedented economic fallout in the Pacific
