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There are more than 3,000 Moroccan women who come to Spain each year to pick strawberries | Photo: Imago / Agencia EFE / Julian Perez
  • Spain

Spain to build camp for migrant strawberry pickers after UN calls out 'deplorable conditions'

Following fires in cramped migrant worker settlements in southwest Spain and subsequent criticism by a UN official about "deplorable conditions" there, Spanish soldiers were deployed over the weekend to build a camp for migrant strawberry pickers.

A rally to call for the reception of migrants and refugees in Barcelona, part of the the campaign 'Casa Nostra, Casa Vostra' (Our Home, Your Home). Credit: EPA/ALBERTO ESTEVEZ
  • Venezuela
  • Morocco
  • Honduras

Undocumented migrants on the rise in Catalonia

The Workers' Commissions (Comisiones Obreras) trade union reported that the number of migrants without a regular permit in Catalonia rose 54.6 percent in 2017 compared to the previous year. The union said one of the main reasons for the rise is that migrants have a hard time renewing their work permits.