Return migration is an emerging policy challenge for the Australian Government.

This resource provides an overview of the young people from refugee and migrant backgrounds arriving in Australia between 2015 and 2016.

The Australia Institute surveyed 1,408 Australians about asylum seekers and refugees.

The briefing directly contradicts initial claims made by the Australian Department of Immigration and Border Protection and the Papua New Guinea Police, suggesting that soldiers only fired bullets into the air during a shooting incident at the Manus Island detention centre in April 2017.

2016 was a year of stark contrast between the attention given to refugees and migrants and the lack of political concern for the millions of people displaced inside their country by conflict, violence and disasters. This year’s GRID seeks to redress the imbalance and put the spotlight back on internal displacement as a key challenge...