Deportations, stricter airport controls, and a fast-tracking of the asylum decision-making process are among the measures being rolled out to address a spike in the number of non-Ukrainians seeking protection here. Taoiseach Micheál Martin has said there has been “a … Read More
Britain should take in 100,000 asylum seekers a year as part of a global programme to fix the refugee crisis, according to a top legal expert. Ivon Sampson, principle immigration lawyer at PRIVATUS, argued the UN High Commissioner for Refugees … Read More
The bodies of 20 migrants have been discovered in the Libyan desert. In a separate incident, a rubber dinghy sank in the Mediterranean with at least 30 people on board. Libyan rescue services have recovered the bodies of 20 people … Read More
Tens of thousands of migrants are expected to travel to southern Europe this year as poverty, violence and rocketing food inflation pushes many to flee their homes. Mediterranean countries on major migrant routes into Europe expect over 150,000 arrivals this … Read More
ATHENS, May 24 (Reuters) – Greece warned on Tuesday that it would not allow the illegal entry of migrants by land or by sea, after a sharp increase in attempted entries through its Aegean islands and land border with Turkey … Read More
BEIRUT — President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey this week announced a dramatic expansion of his country’s plan to entice refugees from Syria’s civil war to return to their home country by building homes for them in Syria near the … Read More
Brussels wants to create more legal pathways for skilled migrants to move to the European Union in order to curb illegal migration, but experts are sceptical about whether it goes far enough. Between two and three million third-country nationals (TCNs) … Read More
For tens of thousands of asylum seekers, living in Cyprus is a daily struggle. Isiaka and Christelle are just two out of thousands of migrants and refugees battling with meeting basic needs ranging from housing to employment to having food … Read More
About 9,000 -10,000 refugees from Ukraine are reaching Hungary every day, according to the figures provided by the Chief Security Advisor György Bakondi. The number of refugees from Ukraine has surpassed 601,000 since the start of the war, according to … Read More
Housing needs to be considered as an important part of integration policy, according to the Minister for Integration Roderic O’Gorman. His comments mark the publication of findings by the Economic and Social Research Institute, which used 2016 Census microdata to … Read More