Recently in Greece over 2000 students, from Greek and migrant backgrounds, participated in a competition to express their thoughts on the meaning of home. Over 100 students won prizes in the contest, which was meant to help improve attitudes towards refugees in the country.
The Greek coastguard has reported that around 150 migrants have been picked up in the Aegean Sea in three separate incidents over the past 24 hours. Despite the pact between the EU and Turkey, which means people crossing irregularly from Turkey to Greece can be sent back, boats continue to arrive.
Cyprian police say they have stopped several dozen migrants trying to cross from the Turkish-controlled to the Greek part of the island. Earlier this month, more than 100 asylum seekers protested against poor job prospects and exploitation in Cyprus.
Kelly Clements is Deputy High Commissioner for the UN Refugee Agency UNHCR. She sat down with InfoMigrants' Emma Wallis to talk about her work and about how she and her team are working to empower refugees around the world.
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.
Arrivals continue on eastern Aegean islands but outlook on funding for housing projects is uncertain.
Three years after the EU-Turkey declaration, the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) is calling on European countries to take their share of responsibility for handling refugees. Paying off Turkey and Greece, who have been excessively hit by the crisis, cannot be the solution, the NRC said.
A primary school on the Greek island of Samos is at the center of a controversy after a group of local parents refused to send their children to school. Their protest is indicative of a growing frustration among local Greek communities over the arrivals of refugees since 2015.
Some 80 refugee kids in camps near Athens have taken part in a reforestation program on Mount Pentelis, one of Greece's most famous mountains.
Migrant children can find it difficult to maintain their access to formal education. For many, education is interrupted for several years at a time. For others, education can be a reason for migration, or an opportunity in the host country. In Greece, those who are seeking asylum or are refugees have a right to the country’s state education but a little less than half of refugee children are not yet signed up to formal education.
Dionissis Arvanitakis, a Greek baker who gave away 100 kilograms of bread every day to refugees arriving on the Greek island of Kos, has died. European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker released a statement Sunday expressing his respect "for an exemplary European citizen."
A study by the University of Glasgow has looked at the experiences and aspirations of Syrians in three different host countries, the UK, Lebanon and Greece. They hope that their findings will help inform policy makers to make decisions to aid integration.