Anchor centers – the linchpin of Germany’s immigration ‘master plan’. Refugee rights groups decried these one-stop facilities for asylum seekers as mass holding camps where people would be kept for long periods, denied access to justice...
How do locals in Austria feel about migrants and refugees? Has the mood changed compared to four years ago? InfoMigrants went to Vienna to find out.
Precious left Nigeria for Europe with the help of a family friend, or so she thought. She tells InfoMigrants about traffickers, bureaucracy in Italy and a baby in a German 'anchor center'.
Last month, Germany announced it would extend border controls at the border with Austria for another six months. The extension came into effect on November 12. So what exactly happens at these border checks and how useful are they in...
Can you create art out of the traumas many refugees had to undergo to reach Europe? An exhibition in a small village in northwest Germany sponsored by the Malteser charity is doing just that in hopes of helping refugees to process their...
As the decree passed the Senate, Italy's upper house, Matteo Salvini tweeted it was an "historic day." The decree still needs to pass the lower house by the end of November before it is enshrined in law. At the moment, that looks likely,...
The death toll from a migrant shipwreck off the coast of Barbate, Cadiz, has climbed to 18 after five bodies were recovered last night near Los Caños de Meca. A total of 22 people have been rescued, while an estimated six others remain...
A project that aims to protect migrant workers' rights in North Africa has been launched in Tunis. The project, titled "Support to Improving Migration Governance and Promoting Fair Labor Migration in the Maghreb," will support improvements...
Italian police cleared out a migrant camp managed by the Baobab Experience association near the Tiburtina train station in Rome. It's the twenty-second eviction in three years, turning "about a hundred people" out on the streets, say...
People from Germany's list of "safe" countries rarely have the right to asylum. DW looks at what the list means with regard to asylum law in Germany and why some view parts of it with skepticism.
Can pregnant women be deported from Germany? In many circumstances they can, although the recent case of an Iranian woman in Germany has cast a spotlight back on the debate.
The new MySkills initiative helps skilled migrants with no formal qualification to gain access to the German job market by taking a test in their field of expertise. Let's take a look.
Based on Commission proposals, the Justice and Home Affairs Council adopted in September 2015 two Decisions to relocate 160,000 asylum seekers from Italy and Greece, to assist them in dealing with the pressures of the refugee crisis....
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This is the testimony of Salem, an Eritrean woman who successfully relocated from Italy to Portugal. The mother of a beautiful baby called Joana, Salem fled her country to find freedom. She had the courage to speak up about smugglers...