Police in Spain have arrested 43 people accused of exploiting irregular migrants for cheap labor in the Malaga province. The criminal gang reportedly had some of the workers living under inhumane conditions in properties that belonged to the organization.
The director of Caritas in San Severo in southern Italy told an Italian daily that thousands of euros in funds raised by persons near the newly elected parliamentarian Aboubakar Soumahoro were intended to buy toys for a migrant settlement that in fact had very few children.
The French government has announced a bill that would create a specific residence permit to enable irregular immigrants working in understaffed sectors to legalize their status.
Two Egyptian workers died in the night between Tuesday and Wednesday of carbon monoxide inhalation near Como, in northern Italy, the latest in a long spate of workplace accident deaths in Italy. The tragedy sparked a fresh controversy on workplace safety .
Uber Eats couriers, mainly from Africa, demonstrated in Paris after the food delivery company accused riders of using fake identities and blocked 2,500 accounts.
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.
Twenty foreign farmhands working "off the books" were discovered in the countryside near Caserta, in the Campania region, during operations carried out by local labor inspectors and Carabinieri police. Authorities subsequently issued measures to suspend the activity of four farms.
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.
Samir* worked for over a year using false papers for the DPD delivery group in the Paris region. Frustrated by the working conditions, which he describes as "slavery", the Algerian started a strike with 70 other colleagues, who were also undocumented. For four months, the strikers have been demanding to have their situation regularized.
One year after undocumented migrants started staging a hunger strike at the Beguinage church in Brussels, the church has requested an end to the occupation. The migrants still have not received a ruling on their residency applications.
The Italian organization Doctors for Human Rights (MEDU) has denounced that living conditions of migrant farm workers in Gioia Tauro, located in the southern region of Calabria, remain critically precarious.
Hundreds of undocumented workers in the Paris region have been on strike since Monday to demand legalization of their employment status. Employed in catering, delivery and waste collection, they have been on the front line during the pandemic.