An immigrant advisory commission for the city of Naples in southern Italy took office on Thursday. The body was established in 2018 to improve the lives of immigrants through drawing up proposals.
The UK government has announced that undocumented migrants can register with their doctors for a vaccine against COVID-19 without fear of being ejected by the Home Office.
Germany needs immigration. Language is key to integration. For years, politicians and academics have argued about what to call immigrants and their descendants. Now there's a new proposal.
The overall number of foreigners who registered in Italy's civil registry in 2019 dropped by 7.3% on 2018 figures. Registrations by migrants from Africa decreased by 28%, according to the Italian statistics bureau ISTAT.
Since the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic, hundreds of legal foreign residents in France who received family reunification approvals have been unable to get visas for their relatives. They say the suspension of these visa applications is "discriminatory".
A new security decree modifying previous decrees passed under former Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini was approved Friday by the Italian Senate.
Some non-UK nationals are facing losing their visas, having an application refused or being deported if they are found to be sleeping rough. That's according to a new set of immigration rules introduced by the UK government which came into effect on December 1. A number of London borough councils have pushed back against the rules.
On December 2, the UK Home Office is planning a charter flight to deport up to 50 people back to Jamaica. A group of 91 Black public figures and campaigners have written an open letter to airlines urging them to refuse to accept the contract. Opposition MPs have also joined in.
When news broke that a vaccine against COVID-19 developed by a Turkish-born couple in Germany has promising results, many media reports placed the ethnic background of these scientists above the importance of the story itself. While migrant entrepreneurship might still be regarded as something rare in Germany, research shows that more and more migrants are launching their own businesses.
Abandoned in Istanbul by a man who claimed to be a certified FIFA agent, Stèphane, an Ivorian footballer, arrived in France, where he became a sports educator in the Paris region. Undocumented for a decade but with a permanent work contract, Stéphane now wants to regularize his status. But he can’t get an appointment at the police prefecture office that handles immigration appointments. This is his story:
In its annual report on the confinement of foreigners in waiting areas at French entry points such as ports, airports and train stations, the National Association of Border Assistance once again denounced discriminatory practices against foreigners.
The number of migrants who had moved from one African country to another nearly doubled between 2008 and 2017 – from 13.3 million to 25.4 million people, according to a new report.