The Building a New Life in Australia (BNLA) team have released their milestone 10-year report on humanitarian settlement outcomes.

As part of the BNLA study, researchers surveyed almost 2,400 humanitarian migrants at 6 points over 10 years – from their initial visa being granted in 2013, to the last survey in 2023. Study participants were mostly from Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran and Myanmar.

Survey questions, translated into 14 languages, were based on a range of settlement outcomes, including health, education, workforce participation, social connections and self-agency.  

Building a New Life in Australia: 10 years of humanitarian settlement is the first report to utilise all 6 waves of data collection from the BNLA study.

See the Australian Institute of Family Studies media release, and read the report.