In Spain, migrant street sellers launch their own trainers
A new brand of trainers has hit the market in Spain – designed by migrants who have long been stigmatised for selling fakes on the streets of Barcelona.
Senegal
Senegalese fishermen with papers: A different kind of migrant story
Two Senegalese fishermen, who have been working legally in Italy for some time on board a fishing boat in Lampedusa, watch surprised as thousands of other migrants file past them in the hope of a better life in Europe.
Germany: Identification interviews for undocumented migrants, an opaque and controversial procedure
In Germany, thousands of rejected asylum seekers without identification documents are called for interviews each year with foreign delegations and embassies, in order to determine their true identities and potentially expel them.
68% of returnee migrants in 6 African countries in debt, IOM
The UN migration agency, IOM, says that more than two-thirds of West African migrants returning to their home countries are in financial debt. Many also feel that shame prevents them from reintegrating in their communites, an IOM study has found.
Video: Protests against migrant arrivals on Canary Islands
Locals working in the tourism sector on Spain's Canary Islands have been hit hard by coronavirus lockdowns. Though many of them welcome foreigners, migrants arriving irregularly from Africa who have been housed in empty hotels have caused xenophobia to escalate.
Western Sahara: A migrant smuggling hotspot
The Western Sahara is known for its beaches and resorts; but amid a global pandemic, locals have been forced to seek opportunities elsewhere, aiding people smugglers in moving migrants across the Atlantic to the Canary Islands. But this is a dangerous undertaking on all sides.
Finding the positive: Migrants working to make 2020 a success (Part I)
2020 has been a difficult year for many people the world over. A global health pandemic, economic problems and even more people displaced than before were just some of the challenges we all faced. But to try and spread a bit of cheer as the year comes to a close, InfoMigrants decided to look back at some of the migrant success stories we reported on in 2020 in the world of work.
Libya: Children's bodies washed ashore after shipwreck
The bodies of four children have been found washed ashore west of Tripoli. Aid workers say they were on a migrant boat that sank on the high sea on Wednesday.
Fathers in Senegal sentenced to jail for pushing their sons to migrate
A Senegalese court has sentenced three fathers to jail after it found that the fathers had pushed their sons to migrate. They were found guilty of "endangering the lives of others."
Leaving Senegal: 'Three of my friends died at sea. I set off the day after they died.'
18-year-old Babacar is one of more than 8,000 African migrants who made his way to the Canary Islands archipelago in November 2020. When InfoMigrants spoke to him, Babacar had just been taken in by a Canary Islands resident who decided to help him.
Babacar's story: 'I arrived in Spain, but I have not yet reached my destination'
Mbaye Babacar Diouf was just 15 when he arrived in Spain after crossing the Atlantic in a small boat to the Canary Islands. On arrival, after receiving care from the Red Cross, he promised himself he would -- one day -- become a nurse. He's achieved that dream and is about to embark on his next challenge -- to become a doctor.
Spain steps up measures in Senegal to deter illegal migration
The Spanish foreign minister met with her counterpart in Senegal on Sunday to talk about how the two countries can increase measures to deter potential migrants attempting to make the 1,500 kilometer Atlantic crossing from West Africa to the Canary Islands.