After spending seven years in Spain, Issa went back to live in his village in Senegal. He told InfoMigrants that many people who are headed to Europe underestimate how hard life can be for migrants.
More than 130 members of Iraq’s Yazidi community have been flown to Toulouse to be resettled in France. The families include women and girls forced into sexual slavery by the Islamic State group.
If you are a refugee living in a foreign country but you cannot stay there, you may be able to get help to resettle in a new place, like Britain, Spain or Canada. But in reality, the lack of places being offered by governments means the chance of being resettled as a refugee is almost nil. The solution? Put the people in charge.
You might have heard of the resettlement program that relocates refugees to another country. Many people wonder: How does it work, and who gets chosen?
"Hand in hand from the beginning" — that’s the motto of a new pilot program for the resettlement of 500 vulnerable refugees to Germany. Serving as “mentors,” groups of people commit to helping refugees find a new home and improve overall conditions for integration. In Canada and the UK, comparable community sponsor programs have existed for years.
Germany is increasingly making use of humanitarian admissions programs as part of its refugee policy, meaning orderly entry for migrants rather than high-risk journeys. But resettlement is tied to three conditions.
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 UN migration agency, the IOM, has responded on Twitter to complaints from Iraqi refugees who say they have been stranded in Turkey for up to six years. The refugees want to be given homes in third countries under the United Nations resettlement program.
Western countries took in less than five percent of refugees needing to be resettled from poorer regions last year, despite record numbers of displaced people around the world. Fewer than 56,000 refugees were given new homes in 2018 under the UN’s resettlement program, a decline from previous years.
More than 16,000 migrants were returned home from Libya in 2018 under a voluntary return program run by the UN's migration agency, the IOM. Many of them had tried - and failed - to cross the Mediterranean to Europe.
UNHCR reports that 33 Syrian and South Sudanese refugees have arrived in Portugal. These families are the first to arrive as part of a resettlement project that calls for over 1,000 refugees to be transferred from Turkey and Egypt.
The EU has set up various measures to curb unauthorized migration. One of them is offering more legal pathways to the European Union with the help of resettlement pledges. As a data analysis shows, this is not working.