Germany and Poland are among the European countries that want greater efforts to stop migrants from crossing the EU's eastern borders. But Brussels has made it clear that it will not pay for "barbed wire and walls" with EU funds.
One day in August, Phyllie received a phone call she had hoped she would never get. Her 19-year-old brother Daouda had been killed in a Libyan prison while trying to escape. This 43-year-old woman, who lives in France, tells InfoMigrants that she does not know how to mourn her brother without being able to recover his body and give him a proper burial.
A new study from the University of Maynooth in Ireland has found that migrant fishermen who work in the industry are often subject to unsafe and unstable conditions. What's more, they can be at risk of exploitation and even human trafficking due to their unclear immigration status.
An Eritrean man accused of running a camp in Libya and subjecting migrants to "severe beatings, kidnapping, rape and or unlawful deprivation of liberty," has been put on a wanted list in the Netherlands. He has already been sentenced to life imprisonment in absentia in Ethiopia for similar crimes.
Hundreds of migrants in the Nea Kavala camp in northern Greece demonstrated on October 13 to protest the implementation of a new protocol that prevents them from accessing food. According to those contacted by InfoMigrants, nearly half of the 1,200 residents are no longer receiving food.
Demonstrators have gathered in Warsaw to show solidarity with migrants at the Poland-Belarus border who have been turned back by Polish authorities.
The Polish parliament is debating a draft law which would allow the country to erect a wall on its border with Belarus. The wall is expected to cost a little over €353 million.
Three refugee rights activists have begun a hunger strike to draw attention to harsh living conditions suffered by foreign nationals trying to get to the UK from France's Calais region.
Greek coroner Pavlos Pavlidis autopsies all the bodies of migrants found in the Evros region, bordering Turkey. He tries to collect as much information as possible on each of them and keeps all their personal belongings to give them back their name and their dignity.
For a number of years, the bodies of unidentified migrants have lain in a small cemetery in Sidiro, a small Greek village a few miles from the Turkish border. Some of them drowned while trying to cross the Evros River, others died of hypothermia or were victims of road accidents. There are reportedly 200 bodies buried there, without names or dates.
Three migrants were killed and one injured after a train in southern France struck them. The migrants were reportedly lying or sleeping on or near the tracks at the time of the incident.
In northern Greece, not far from the Greek-Macedonian border, the Nea Kavala migrant camp houses 1,200 people. It is one of the largest in the region. Isolated, not served by public transport, and now surrounded by a huge concrete wall, the camp is an "open-air prison" for its occupants.