Building a New Life in Australia (BNLA): The Longitudinal Study of Humanitarian Migrants - Wave 5 update

Building a New Life in Australia (BNLA): The Longitudinal Study of Humanitarian Migrants is a long-term project researching how humanitarian migrants settle into life in Australia. It is the first long-term study of humanitarian migrants to Australia. The study follows 2,399 humanitarian migrants and their family members who arrived in Australia or had their permanent residency visa granted between May and October 2013. 

An extensive report on the findings from the first three waves of BNLA was published by the Department of Social Services in November 2017 (subsequently referred to as the ‘Wave 3 Report’). An update summarising wave 4 findings (subsequently referred to as the ‘Wave 4 Update’) was published in April 2019. 

The Wave 5 Update (this document) summarises additional findings from waves 4 and 5. Due to the smaller size of the report, this update does not provide detailed commentary on or explanation of the data. It includes only updated tables and figures that incorporate data from waves 4 and 5. Readers should consider the data in this update in conjunction with the findings from the Wave 3 Report for a full contextual overview.