• Greece

Migrant children can find it difficult to maintain their access to formal education. For many, education is interrupted for several years at a time. For others, education can be a reason for migration, or an opportunity in the host country. In Greece, those who are seeking asylum or are refugees have a right to the country’s state education but a little less than half of refugee children are not yet signed up to formal education.

• Hungary

A human rights organization in Hungary has renewed allegations that Hungarian authorities are leaving asylum seekers without food for long periods of time in order to convince them to give up on asylum claims and leave the country. When the Hungarian Helsinki Committee first made the accusation six months ago, Hungary denied the claim.

• Portugal

Portugal is in the midst of a crackdown on human trafficking after numbers of known victims more than doubled in the last few years. Most of the Portuguese cases are in the field of labor trafficking, with agricultural workers accounting for many of the victims.

• Italy

Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte called, in his keynote speech in Strasbourg to the European Parliament, for a Europe for the people and by the people. He accused the bloc of having lost touch with what the people want and asked for more unity to address the many challenges the continent faces, including migration.

• Germany

Refugee status and subsidiary protection as well as resettlement and humanitarian protection programs are not necessarily permanent. So when can these statuses be revoked?

• Italy

Dunja Mijatovic, the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, has called upon Italy to uphold the human rights of refugees in an open letter dated January 31. Addressed to Italy’s Prime Minister she declares she is "deeply concerned" about "some recent measures" taken in the country.

• Germany

The German Federal Office for Migration and Refugees noted in its latest statistics that there was a significant rise in the numbers of people seeking asylum in Germany from the Americas in 2018.

• Greece
• Lebanon
• Syria

A study by the University of Glasgow has looked at the experiences and aspirations of Syrians in three different host countries, the UK, Lebanon and Greece. They hope that their findings will help inform policy makers to make decisions to aid integration.

• Greece

Finding work for refugees and migrants can be difficult at the best of times, but in Greece, hit hard by the economic crisis, that challenge can be even greater. But for a lucky few, a job or help setting up a business provide a ray of light and the promise of a brighter future.

• Netherlands

The Dutch coalition government has agreed a compromise deal granting asylum to several hundred young migrants who have been in the Netherlands for at least five years. The deal reached late on Tuesday enabled the government to avoid a political crisis.

• Italy

At the height of the migratory movement in 2015 and 2016, Cara di Mineo was Italy’s biggest reception center. Now it holds just over a thousand inhabitants. After it was reported that a Nigerian crime gang was operating from the camp, Italy’s Interior Minister Matteo Salvini announced it would be closed by the end of 2019. What effect might that have on Italy’s migration reception system?

• Italy

The private rescue boat "Sea Watch 3" picked up 47 people on January 19 in Libyan waters. Since then, it has been trying to obtain entry to a safe port in Europe. Italy’s Interior Minister Matteo Salvini repeats that Italian ports remain closed. Meanwhile, the boat remains waiting at sea.