According to Didier Leschi, director general of the French Office of Immigration and Integration (OFII), all exiles, regardless of their administrative status, can benefit from accommodation in reception centers in northern France. Many irregular migrants generally refuse to go there, for fear of being detected and deported.
More than 184,000 irregular border crossing into the EU were detected by Frontex in the first eleven months of this year. That's a 60% increase compared to the same period in 2020.
Cypriot MPs have voiced strong criticism of conditions at the Pournara emergency shelter for migrants, west of Nicosia. Significant inter-community violence has already broken out in the overcrowded facility.
Cisse, Christian and Narcisse were among the first migrants to be rescued by the NGO vessel Sea-Watch 4. One year later, they are still fighting for a future in Europe.
France deported four Afghans back to Bulgaria on Monday under the Dublin Regulation which allows asylum seekers to be sent back to the first country of arrival in Europe. Lawyers fear that these Afghans will now be deported back to their country of origin, as Bulgaria has not suspended its deportations to Afghanistan despite the Taliban takeover.
A blind Syrian, Mheddin Saho, is back in church asylum for a second time after a court ruled that he could be sent back to Spain where he had first applied for protection. Saho has been in Germany for more than two years and is about to finish his master's degree.
More and more people are arriving in the UK on boats or are intercepted in the English Channel. At the same time, overall migration to the UK remains at a steady level. Politicians, however, are still using images of dinghies washing up on British shores as political capital. And with a key Brexit deadline looming, things might get even more complicated in Brexit-Britain.
The European Court of Justice has ruled that EU countries may not dismiss asylum applications on the ground that Norway has already rejected them.
For years, hundreds of people with refugee protection in the EU who saw no future for themselves in their receiving member state found a second chance in Iceland. This is now changing.
Maher is a journalist. He and his family are originally from Iraq. Maher has waited nearly 16 months for his asylum case to be decided. With no permission to work and no access to education for his four daughters, he is currently on hunger strike in a reception center in Germany. He hopes that this will speed up a transfer and a decision.
480 homeless migrants, including women and children, were given shelter on Thursday evening after they occupied Place de la République in the heart of Paris for several hours.
There are different types of detention locations for migrants in France. To help you understand the differences and what your rights are, InfoMigrants has put together an overview.