When Samuel left his home in Eritrea and began his long journey to Europe, his wife was pregnant. Now in Athens, he told InfoMigrants that he longs to meet the baby son he has never seen in person.
A month ago, on September 12, the Greek government opened a new migrant camp on Lesbos, after Moria was destroyed by fire. The new camp is home to about 10,000. InfoMigrants went to meet some of them last week.
A group of refugee activists is planning to fly an empty plane to the Greek island of Lesbos to try to pick up nearly 200 migrants. The group wants to bring the migrants to the Netherlands.
Two people died and nearly 20 others were injured Wednesday in a clash among migrants in northwestern Bosnia. The violence happened in the town of Bihac, where authorities evicted hundreds of people from a migrant center.
The European Commission plans to build new migrant reception facilities on Lesbos to be run together with Greece. Around 10,000 migrants from the destroyed Moria camp are currently being housed in a temporary tent facility on the island.
Keeping migrants separated from society in camps or centers stops them from forming social bonds. Without friends or knowledge of the host language, they have very little chance of fitting in, say researchers in Germany.
More and more people are taking to small dinghies to cross the English Channel to the UK, in spite of the efforts on both sides to stop them. Many are desperate to escape unemployment and homelessness they experienced elsewhere in Europe.
Greek police have arrested six people in connection with the fire that razed the Moria migrant camp on Lesbos Island last week. The suspects are reportedly Afghan nationals whose asylum applications were rejected.
Migrants arriving in Spain’s Canary Islands are at their highest level in over a decade. On Gran Canaria, reception centers are full and over 200 people have been forced to camp on the dockside.
The Dublin Regulation is the European law that determines where an asylum seeker's claim is processed. But does it cover everyone, even those with a tourist visa? We asked Petra Baeyens from the European Legal Network on Asylum for answers.
The Greek coast guard has rescued more than 50 migrants whose boat was in distress south of the island of Rhodes. Two people are still missing from a separate rescue in the Aegean earlier this week.
An Italian court has rejected a decree to close Sicily's migrant centers. The order had been made by the governor of Sicily, who said it was aimed at stopping the spread of coronavirus.