After the controversies surrounding the Football World Cup in Qatar, the Paris 2024 Olympic Games committee is keen to set a high standard on its construction sites. However, since the beginning of 2022, cases of exploitation of undocumented workers have multiplied.
For young refugees and migrants in France, studying can be expensive. The lack of resources can hinder their academic career, and even threaten their graduation. But there are bursaries available. InfoMigrants provides an overview.
This year, Romania became very attractive to Bangladeshi workers, after quotas for foreign workers were doubled. Although many arrive on legal visas with work permits, the reality on arrival often turns out not to be as promised; prompting many to start an undocumented journey towards western Europe and the salaries they had hoped to obtain.
There has been an increase in the interceptions of undocumented migrants at the Slovakian border, after patrols were intensified due to the reinstatement of border controls by the Czech Republic and Austria in the Schengen area.
Institutional authorities in the south of Italy found that 15 out of 450 migrant workers were working illegally. No evidence of the gangmaster system though was uncovered.
The Czech government is temporarily reintroducing border checks with Slovakia in order to prevent irregular migrants from entering the country.
They are undocumented, live in social hotels and seedy apartments, and eat with the help of food banks. InfoMigrants met with Uber Eats riders who work for a meager income in Paris. Many had their accounts kicked off the restaurant delivery platform following 'fraud' dismissals.
A young woman was reportedly shot dead by Moroccan police as she was about to board a migrant boat headed for the Canary Islands.
Bailey Begum from Bangladesh works as a street food vendor in Athens. She has been living in Greece for four years without documents. Now she's hoping for a change: the Greek government announced it wants to regularize thousands of undocumented Bangladeshi migrants already working in Greece.
The Irish government scheme has enabled people from all around the globe to gain regular legal status in the EU nation. However, some people did not qualify despite spending long periods of time in Ireland.
The Italian police have arrested four people and carried out 70 searches in dismantling a criminal network involved in forging Italian documents for undocumented foreigners in the country.
Getting married, receiving a registered letter or reporting a violent crime: in Switzerland's biggest city, these are all activities that are impossible for thousands of migrants without legal status. But a new ID card for the undocumented is set to change that.