Close to 11,500 people were deported from Germany in the first six months of 2019, slightly fewer than in the same period last year. That's according to the German federal government, which also said that during deportations, the degree of physical resistance by asylum seekers and the resulting use of force by the police are on the rise.
Pictures sometimes appear in the news of migrants climbing tall fences topped with barbed wire in an attempt to get to the Spanish enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla in North Africa. Why do they make these dangerous attempts, and do the migrants then have a right to claim asylum in Europe? InfoMigrants investigates.
A joint border patrol mission between Italy and Slovenia started Monday. The aim is to stem the flow of migrants reaching the north-eastern Italian region of Friuli Venezia Giulia from the eastern border.
The Maltese government has announced the creation of a special unit to fight the illegal exploitation of non-EU workers in the Maltese archipelago, which is on the rise due to the country's economic boom.
A total of 9,081 migrants have irregularly entered Bosnia since the start of the year, according to news agency FENA.
Over the past year, Saudi authorities have reportedly arrested over 50,000 migrants without papers. Almost all of them hailed from Yemen or Ethiopia.
The life-and-death risks taken by many young Gambians who attempt the journey to Europe could hardly be more serious. Yet a group in Sweden has decided to create a game based on what many of the migrants go through.
Turkish authorities said they stopped 636 migrants on Wednesday who were trying to reach EU countries irregularly. Meanwhile, migrant bodies continue to turn up at the border between Turkey and Iran, where the bodies of nine foreigners were found on Tuesday, as winter snow thawed.
The EU border agency Frontex says the number of detected illegal border crossings into the EU has continued to fall. In the first trimester of 2019, the total was 27 percent lower than a year ago.
The Italian authorities have detained 19 foreigners irregularly present on Italian soil near Trieste. The migrants had arrived in the country via the Balkan route, passing through Slovenia.
Yemeni authorities have detained over 2,000 irregular migrants in Aden, according to the UN migration agency IOM. The organization has expressed deep concern over the conditions in which they are being held.
The UN agency for migration IOM will promote a project to train 2,000 youths in Sierra Leone funded by the Japanese government to provide market-driven training and fight unemployment and migration.