French police on Tuesday conducted a massive evacuation of the makeshift migrant camp set up in an industrial zone on the outskirts of the port city of Calais. The local aid groups that witnessed the early morning raid, say they have no idea where the evacuated migrants have been taken.
The conditions in the migrant camp in Vucjak, Bosnia, are grim. For the camp occupants, things have gotten even worse after foreign volunteers were banned from the camp. InfoMigrants went to Vucjak to talk to the people living there.
Ousmane, Ibrahim and Moussa were officially recognized as unaccompanied minors in Paris before they were transferred to another area in France due to overcrowding. But things didn’t go as planned for the three boys, aged between 15 and 16, as they found themselves unprotected and back on the streets.
Hundreds of people live in the camps set up at the Porte d'Aubervilliers in the north of Paris. When heat waves hit France, the tents turn into furnaces and life is harder than ever.
In the city of Mamou, in the central Guinean highlands, there’s not a single neighborhood that hasn’t been plagued by the massive youth departures for Europe. Although both authorities and NGOs are working hard to warn of the dangers involved in hitting the migrant trail, the departures continue.
The Guinean region of Mamou has long seen its young people leave to seek their luck in the bigger cities. But things have gotten particularly bad in the last five years due to the mass exodus to Europe. We visited Dara, a village where elders have to split the heavy farming workload between themselves to survive.
In recent days, a number of websites have spread 'scientific' claims that African or Middle Eastern blood is not compatible with 'European blood'. This is false. InfoMigrants debunks the claim.
John* was arrested and placed in custody this summer for homosexuality before eventually being released on bail. Today, threatened with death by his community, he lives in hiding and is thinking of leaving his country.
The French asylum and immigration law passed in September contained a new measure: As of January, the immigration authorities will offer voluntary return assistance for migrants detained in administrative retention centers (CRA). The government set a goal of 3,000 voluntary returns for the year 2019.
Murder, torture, arbitrary detention, gang rape, forced labor, extortion: A recent United Nations report details the horrors suffered by migrants and refugees in Libya. The authors call on the European Union to increase rescues efforts in the Mediterranean and to facilitate the work of humanitarian ships.
In early July, amendments to Hungary’s asylum laws went into effect that allow migrants whose requests for asylum have been denied to be expelled from the country during the appeals process. People appealing their asylum decisions have been placed in detention and denied food.
In the La Chapelle neighborhood in the north of Paris, hundreds of migrants live in deplorable conditions. There are many young men among them, but also minors and families with little children. They live alongside crack addicts who were themselves displaced when police cleared their makeshift encampment earlier this summer. This is the account of a day in a neighborhood marked by despair.