The Italian interior ministry has announced it will reopen the centre for repatriations in Rome at the beginning of June. It also said work is underway to open another four similar structures across Italy.
A few kilometers from Paris’ Charles de Gaulle airport, 240 foreigners are detained in the administrative retention center (CRA) of Mesnil-Amelot, where they will be kept before being deported - or released. When Rachid Temal, a senator and member of the Socialist Party, went to visit the center on Friday, April 26, InfoMigrants went along. Living in constrained conditions and a sometimes tense atmosphere, the undocumented people here count the days before they continue into an uncertain future.
The German Parliament has begun discussing a bill which would make it harder for rejected asylum seekers to avoid deportation. The 'Orderly Return Bill' would also mean that people facing deportation would be held in regular prisons.
Political decisions, persecution and economic conditions force Afghan refugees in different regions across the globe to return home, despite serious security and economic challenges in Afghanistan. InfoMigrants takes a closer look.
Lay missionary Biagio Conte has gone on a hunger strike in Palermo, Italy, to protest against the planned expulsion of 51-year-old Ghanaian migrant Paul who has been living in Italy for over 10 years.
60 Sri Lankan migrants who arrived on the French Indian Ocean island of Reunion two weeks ago have been deported. A total of 120 people had made the 4,000 km journey in a fishing vessel, paying thousands of euros to smugglers.
The German federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia has deported three men from Bosnia Herzegovina, who had been classified as Islamist threats.
The deportation of writer and dissident Nguyen Quang Hong Nhan, seen as an "enemy of the people" in Vietnam, has drawn fierce condemnation. Critics called the move "incomprehensible" and decried state "incompetence."
Refugees and migrants in Algeria are facing difficult times. Amid the country's ongoing political transformation, authorities choose to deal with sub-Saharan migrants in the country by deporting them to Niger – into the middle of the desert.
There's a growing movement in Germany of people sheltering rejected asylum seekers who are at risk of being deported. They call it humane and an act of civil disobedience. But some critics warn that 'citizens' asylum' is illegal and may not help anyone in the long run.
Germany has deported another group of Afghan asylum seekers back to Kabul. 21 men arrived in the capital on Wednesday morning, bringing the number returned to the country over the past three years to more than 530. Critics say Afghanistan is still too dangerous for the rejected asylum seekers.
Fewer migrants are leaving Germany – both willingly and unwillingly. In the past year, the number of people choosing voluntary repatriation has almost halved, while forced returns have also slightly declined.