Hundreds of homeless migrants and their supporters set up tents in front of the Paris City Hall on Thursday evening to demand better accommodation. Mostly families from sub-Saharan Africa and unaccompanied minors, they pitched their tents as the bells of the building rang at 8pm.
The UK government acted unlawfully when it housed six asylum seekers at the Napier military barracks, a court ruled on Thursday. The facility failed to meet minimum standards, the judge found. The interior ministry said the barracks would continue to house asylum seekers.
On Monday operations started to demolish the American Palace in Castel Volturno, in the province of Caserta in Campania, Italy. The building, which had been occupied for years by migrants in the area, had become a symbol of illegality and deterioration along the waterfront in Caserta.
A 31-year-old woman and a two-year-old child have died after a fire broke out at a shelter for asylum seekers in central Germany on Sunday evening.
Only 20% of all asylum seekers living in accommodation centers in Germany want to get vaccinated against the coronavirus, the state government of Lower Saxony said. A publicity campaign is to address the lack of trust in vaccines.
The Canary Islands – a tourist paradise if it weren't for the pandemic. But the islands have also been making headlines as more and more migrants arrived there. As camps and shelters were bursting at the seams and hotels were empty anyway because of the pandemic, the island's government requested to have vacation resorts take them in. That didn’t sit well with everyone.
After a blaze in an accommodation center for asylum seekers near Hamburg, a resident was admitted to a psychiatric hospital for suspected arson. It was the second fire in such a facility in northern Germany this year.
The Republic of San Marino has approved legislation that enables families and single persons to host unaccompanied migrant minors living in refugee camps.
Receiving refugee status does not mean the end of dealings with the French administration. From getting residence permits to housing and benefits, InfoMigrants takes you through the first bureaucratic steps as an officially-recognized refugee.
The UN refugee agency UNHCR, the Association for Juridical Studies on Immigration (ASGI) and the Italian housing union SUNIA have published a guide in Italy to help refugees find housing and inform them about their rights and obligations in relation to rentals and contracts.
The Berlin state Office for Refugee Affairs (LAF) hopes to start vaccinating residents in asylum seeker centers against COVID-19 this month. Migrants in communal facilities are considered a "high priority" in Germany's vaccine rollout.
The UK Home Secretary Priti Patel is facing "serious questions" from a parliamentary committee after claiming that migrant accommodation in former army barracks was "safe."