Croatia claims to have stopped just over 16,000 attempts by migrants without visas to cross the border with Bosnia since the beginning of the year. Meanwhile, Bosnia says it has halted close to 9,000 illegal migrant entrances so far this year.
At the French-Italian border, dozens of migrants from all walks of life are prevented every day from crossing into France. A fallback for those who are weary of this cat-and-mouse game, the city of Ventimiglia has become a merciless territory for migrants in recent months.
The coronavirus pandemic has exacerbated the vulnerability of refugees and migrants worldwide. That's a key message of this year's World Risk Report (WRR), whose focus is on "Forced Displacement & Migration".
Three days after multiple fires destroyed most of the Moria migrant camp on the Greek island of Lesbos, thousands of the former residents are still sleeping out in the open. Although the authorities are starting to offer emergency accommodation for some, their efforts are being contested by some locals. Charities working with migrants in the area say provision is so far “ineffective.”
France has made the fight against domestic violence a priority but activists say the state has overlooked undocumented migrant women who are victims of domestic violence. Although laws have been enacted in recent years, they have failed to protect women deprived of gender and residency rights, they argue.
Following two nights of fires at the Greek migrant camp on the island of Lesbos, the authorities are providing temporary accommodation on board navy ships, ferries and in new tents being flown in. Thousands of the former residents spent the night sleeping on the roads and in fields with what few belongings they were able to save from the fires.
As fires raged through the Moria migrant camp on Lesbos late Tuesday night, residents began messaging InfoMigrants. Some sent photos and videos, capturing the disaster as they experienced it.
Reactions to and speculation about the causes of a fire which has destroyed large parts of the migrant camp Moria on the Greek island of Lesbos are coming thick and fast. Now that almost 13,000 people are without shelter, what will politicians and the EU do? Some say the fire has sent current European migration policy up in flames too.
Operations have begun to close the migrant hosting center of Bira in Bihac, in north-western Bosnia, near the border with Croatia.
A 24-year-old Afghan migrant, who was found dead inside the garage of a ferry that reached Ancona from Greece on Sunday, had an application in his pocket asking for the possibility of obtaining the status of political refugee in Greece, officials said Monday, September 7. Greek authorities had not processed his request yet. The young man was identified thanks to the document.
British and French authorities are reporting having picked up hundreds of migrants in the English Channel on Monday, September 7. Kent border force vessels said they had intercepted more than 200 and French authorities reported rescuing more than 80 people on their side of the water.
More than 200 people have pitched tents in central Paris in a protest to demand better care and facilities for migrants. When police tried to evacuate the camp, the Paris City Hall opened a room to accommodate the protesters.