Just days after a makeshift migrant camp was dismantled by protestors, another tiny tent camp has sprouted outside the International Protection Office (IPO) in the Irish capital Dublin. Meanwhile protests continue across the country as a rise in migrants coincides with a lack of suitable homes for all.
Countries across the European Union are grappling with its worst housing crisis in decades. Migrants are feeling the sharp end of the housing shortage.
Mold and rats are allegedly plaguing several accommodation centers for asylum seekers in a German city near Cologne. That's according to media reports citing complaints by refugees living there.
A fire has reportedly destroyed much of a makeshift migrant camp in Dublin on Friday night. The informal structure had attracted a great deal of criticism in recent days, with protests resulting in repeated scenes of violence.
The president of the Italian hotel and tourism association in the region of Tuscany, Daniele Barbetti, has called for the need to pay attention to the "delicate equilibrium of the tourism economy" following the arrival of migrants in the region, on the premise that everything possible should be done to shelter them.
Police have evicted around 400 people, mostly Chadians and Sudanese, from a derelict building in the Paris region. The area will eventually host the athletes' village during the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
A French territory located off the coast of Southeastern Africa plans to demolish foreigner-populated informal settlements and deport dozens of undocumented migrants back to their country of origin. While the local population and elected officials support the project, others express concern.
Maryam and her five children have been homeless since November. Every night, they have to find a place to rest a few hours before the children return to class the next day. InfoMigrants followed the family during a night looking for shelter.
In France, all children are required to attend school, regardless of their administrative status. That means some migrant and refugee children arrive to class after spending the night on the streets due to the country's shortage of public refugee and migrant housing. The number of homeless migrant children is expected to rise as the weather gets warmer.
The UK is spending a third of its overseas aid budget on supporting migrants and refugees who actually are inside the UK, according to official figures. Meanwhile, its aid to foreign countries is shrinking.
With the travel season starting in Germany's capital, hundreds of refugees and asylum seekers are forced to leave hostels and hotels in favor of tourists. But adequate alternatives are reportedly hard to come by, especially for wheelchair users.
A typhoid outbreak among migrants housed on a decommissioned cruise liner last year has been found to have been caused by a sewage leak. The contaminated water made its way into freshwater supplies on board the stationary vessel, according to an investigation led by local authorities.