Today: September 12, 2024
Today: September 12, 2024

Migration

Africa|Europe

Volunteers help migrants reverse water trauma in Spain's Canaries

Smiling broadly, perhaps to hide their nervousness, dozens of young African migrants wearing swimming goggles took their first strokes and

Volunteers help migrants reverse water trauma in Spain's Canaries
Americas|Economy|Political

Forced to emigrate, Venezuelans living abroad hope for change — and to eventually return home

The prolonged economic and political instability in Venezuela has forced millions of Venezuelans to leave over the past decade, quashing many of their dreams and leaving many wondering if they’ll ever return to what was once South America’s most prosperous country

Forced to emigrate, Venezuelans living abroad hope for change — and to eventually return home
Americas|Election|Europe

Venezuelans abroad say they are struggling to register to vote

Venezuelan migrants in South America and Europe say they have struggled to register to vote in their country's

Venezuelans abroad say they are struggling to register to vote
News|Political|World

A cash-for visas scandal hits Poland's strongly anti-migration government, weeks before elections

Poland's President Andrzej Duda says he is awaiting results of an investigation into allegations that Polish consulates sold a quarter of a million work visas to migrants from Asia and Africa for thousands of dollars

A cash-for visas scandal hits Poland's strongly anti-migration government, weeks before elections
News|Political|World

Italy works to transfer thousands of migrants who reached a tiny island in a day

A migrant reception center in Italy’s southernmost island of Lampedusa is overwhelmed as authorities work to transfer to transfer thousands of newly arrived migrants to the mainland

Italy works to transfer thousands of migrants who reached a tiny island in a day
News|Political|World

Italian leader Giorgia Meloni vows to take 'extraordinary measures' to deal with a migrant influx

Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni is vowing to take “extraordinary measures” to deal with an influx of migrants

Italian leader Giorgia Meloni vows to take 'extraordinary measures' to deal with a migrant influx
News|Political|World

What's behind the surge in migrant arrivals to Italy?

Thousand of migrants reached the Italian island of Lampedusa on more than 100 boats this week

What's behind the surge in migrant arrivals to Italy?
News|Political|World

Top EU official heads to an Italian island struggling with migrant influx as Italy toughens stance

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen plans to travel on Sunday to the Italian island of Lampedusa amid an influx of migrants who arrived this week

Top EU official heads to an Italian island struggling with migrant influx as Italy toughens stance
News|Political|World

EU pledges crackdown on 'brutal' migrant smuggling during visit to overwhelmed Italian island

EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen pledged the swift return of “irregular” migrants and a crackdown on smugglers Sunday during a visit with Italy’s premier to a tiny fishing island overwhelmed with nearly 7,000 migrant arrivals in a single day this week

EU pledges crackdown on 'brutal' migrant smuggling during visit to overwhelmed Italian island
News|Political|World

Italy approves new migrant detention as talk turns to naval blockade to prevent launching of boats

The Italian Cabinet has approved new measures to crack down on migration

Italy approves new migrant detention as talk turns to naval blockade to prevent launching of boats
News|Political|World

Germany seeks answers from Poland in a visa fraud scandal involving migrants from Asia and Africa

German government officials have held talks with their Polish counterparts asking them to clarify how many visas were issued in an illegal program in which some Polish consulates issued visas in Africa and Asia in exchange for bribes

Germany seeks answers from Poland in a visa fraud scandal involving migrants from Asia and Africa
News|World

Pope goes to Marseille to talk migration, but will Europe listen as it scrambles to stem an influx?

Pope Francis is travelling to the French port city of Marseille to join Catholic bishops in a meeting focusing on the Mediterranean and migration

Pope goes to Marseille to talk migration, but will Europe listen as it scrambles to stem an influx?
Entertainment|News|Political|World

Director of migration drama denounced by right-wing leaders as film opens in Poland

Poland's right-wing leaders are denouncing a new feature film by Polish director Agnieszka Holland as it opens in the country

Director of migration drama denounced by right-wing leaders as film opens in Poland
News|Political|World

Germany considering short-term migration border controls with Poland and the Czech Republic

A government official says that Germany is considering establishing short-term border controls with Poland and the Czech Republic to keep irregular migrants from entering the country

Germany considering short-term migration border controls with Poland and the Czech Republic
News|Political|World

Pope Francis insists Europe doesn't have a migrant emergency and challenges countries to open ports

Pope Francis is challenging French President Emmanuel Macron and other European leaders to open their ports to people fleeing hardship and poverty

Pope Francis insists Europe doesn't have a migrant emergency and challenges countries to open ports
News|Political|World

Migrants hoping to reach US continue north through Mexico by train amid historic migration levels

A group of about 5,000 mostly Venezuelan migrants hoping to make it to the U.S. spent three days in the Mexican town of Irapuato waiting for a train that many in the group worried would never come

Migrants hoping to reach US continue north through Mexico by train amid historic migration levels
Business|News|World

Shelters for migrants are filling up across Germany as attitudes toward the newcomers harden

Officials across Germany are sounding the alarm that they are no longer able to accommodate migrants who are applying for asylum

Shelters for migrants are filling up across Germany as attitudes toward the newcomers harden
Business|News|Political|World

EU struggles to update asylum laws three years on from a sweeping reform. And the clock is ticking

European Union governments are struggling to overcome obstacles to put a new asylum system in place three years after unveiling a plan to reform the bloc's outdated asylum rules

EU struggles to update asylum laws three years on from a sweeping reform. And the clock is ticking
Business

Mexican auto lobby urges authorities to fix border 'crisis' as trade hit

Mexico's main auto industry association on Friday urged Mexican authorities to step up efforts to work with the United States to deal with a "migration crisis" on the countries

Mexican auto lobby urges authorities to fix border 'crisis' as trade hit
Business|News|Political|World

New UN migration chief says private sector 'desperate' to take migrants despite negative narrative

The new head of the U.N.’s migration agency says the private sector is “desperate” for their countries to take in migrants to mop up labor shortages, especially in the West

New UN migration chief says private sector 'desperate' to take migrants despite negative narrative
World

UN migration chief voices concern over Mediterranean deaths, pledges new solutions

The new head of the UN migration agency on Monday voiced concern that the deaths of migrants and refugees in the Mediterranean were being "normalised" and vowed to work with

UN migration chief voices concern over Mediterranean deaths, pledges new solutions
Business|News|Political|World

Tunisia rejects European funds and says they fall short of a deal for migration and financial aid

Tunisia has announced it would reject an installment of funds sent by Europe to help the debt-ridden country patrol the Mediterranean Sea as migrant boat crossings spike to levels not seen in several years

Tunisia rejects European funds and says they fall short of a deal for migration and financial aid
World

Costs mount as migration-related delays stall trucks at US-Mexico border

Trucks attempting to enter the United States from Mexico queued for miles on Wednesday amid delays related to record migration at the

Costs mount as migration-related delays stall trucks at US-Mexico border
News|Political|World

Migrants pass quickly through once impenetrable Darien jungle as governments scramble for answers

Rain-swollen rivers only briefly slowed the otherwise uninterrupted flow of migrants through this jungle-covered border of Colombia and Panama and by midweek another 2,000 bedraggled migrants stumbled out of the Darien jungle

Migrants pass quickly through once impenetrable Darien jungle as governments scramble for answers
World

Mexico seeks diplomatic arrangements to return LatAm migrants

Mexico's national migration institute (INM) on Friday said it has asked the foreign ministry to make diplomatic arrangements with Brazil, Colombia, Cuba, Nicaragua and

Mexico seeks diplomatic arrangements to return LatAm migrants

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