The EU has set up various measures to curb unauthorized migration. One of them is offering more legal pathways to the European Union with the help of resettlement pledges. As a data analysis shows, this is not working.
Lado Gvilava, head of mission in Turkey for the International Organization for Migration (IOM), told ANSA that the impact of the EU-Turkey migrant accord "has been quite positive."
The Turkish coastguard rescued 20 migrants on Monday. Two children died during the rescue operation.
Slovenia completed its first refugee resettlement has been completed with the October 10 arrival of the last Syrian family included in it.
Afghan-American Khaled Hosseini's 2003 book The Kite Runner, about a young boy living in Afghanistan during the Taliban, riveted audiences and ranked at the top of the New York Times bestseller list. Now, his latest novel highlights the travails migrants encounter when leaving their home country.
Over one-fifth of migrants who arrive irregularly in Europe do so by land, according to the UN migration agency IOM. Between January and early September of this year, there were 17,966 land arrivals in Europe.
The UN Refugee Agency UNHCR has ended its registration of asylum seekers in Turkey, passing the responsibility to Turkish authorities.
Thousands of Afghans have arrived in Turkey since the beginning of the year, many of the recent arrivals fleeing from Iran. They often find little help in Turkey which hosts the world's largest refugee population.
An upswing has been seen recently in the number of migrants trying to get to Europe from Turkey, the vast majority of whom are using boats on the Aegean Sea to do so.
The migrant route from Turkey to Europe is rising again in popularity. Nearly 15,000 people have been stopped in 2018 thus far by the Turkish Coast Guard, a 60% increase on the previous year.
Growing numbers of migrants are trying to enter Greece via land routes from Turkey. At the same time, there are reports that Greek authorities are using practices including forced expulsions of migrants back across the border. InfoMigrants has received a video secretly filmed by a man who says he was the victim of such an operation.
He was instrumental in devising the EU-Turkey refugee deal, which was signed in 2016. But Gerald Knaus is far from thinking his work is done. The migration expert is trying to find new solutions to the changing patterns of Europe's refugee situation.