In the north of Paris, at Porte de la Chapelle, hundreds of migrants camping under the ring road are being subjected to an onslaught of drug addicts, who are living a few meters away. In light of the junkies’ volatile behavior, organizations are making fewer and fewer trips to the camp, to the detriment of asylum seekers.
On Tuesday April 16, between 150 and 170 asylum seekers on Cyprus took to the streets of the capital Nicosia to demand full access to the labor market. A ministerial decision passed in October 2018 states that asylum seekers should be given access to the labor market one month after filing their asylum application. The reality is very different though, says the Catholic charity Caritas.
The UN Refugee Agency’s High Commissioner Filippo Grandi (UNHCR) warned, during a meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin on Monday, that escalating violence in Libya could cause more migration to Europe.
Claire Paccalin on the Greek island of Lesbos meets a family struggling to keep their lives together while living in the Moria refugee camp.
A 28-year-old Gambian migrant named Gaye Demba, who once lived at the occupied former Olympic village in Turin known as the ex-MOI, killed himself at a reception center run by the Diocese of Turin.
A recent analysis by the Pew Research Center of World Bank data found that money sent by immigrants to their home countries in sub-Saharan Africa reached a record 41 billion dollars in 2017. This represents a 10 percent jump in remittances on the previous year, the largest annual growth for any world region, according to the study.
Mo Ibrahim, a Sudan-born billionaire, who made his money in telecommunications, (and has set up a foundation to encourage better governance in Africa with some of the profits), said at a meeting of his foundation in Ivory Coast in early April that migration should be viewed as a positive phenomenon and not a threat.
The German government, responding to clashes between migrants and police on the Greek-Turkish border on Friday April 5, has promised to act quicker to quell misinformation about migration and migration routes on the web.
Many migrants and refugees are sending money to family members in their home country. But what's the best way to do this? What are the legal restrictions? Sertan Sanderson explains everything you need to know in the latest episode of FactCheck.
The UN refugee agency, UNHCR, was set up with a temporary mandate in 1950. Nearly 70 years later it is still trying to empower refugees and improve their situations wherever they are. InfoMigrants spoke with Deputy High Commissioner Kelly Clements when she was in Bonn, and asked her about the situation in Europe.
In Naples, the doors of seven Christian churches have become part of an art installation. Artist Giovanni Gara has decorated the doors with the thermal blankets used for migrants rescued at sea. The gold-colored material of the blankets is meant to symbolize the false promise of a land of refuge for migrants.
Italy's watchdog for the rights of detainees has reported that some 4,000 people were held in Italian migrant repatriation centers in 2018. Only 43 percent of them were subsequently repatriated, the authority said.