Alhafiz Trjok at Sheffield Hallam University, Yorkshire, 2024 | Photo: AI/ Courtesy of Alhafiz Trjok
  • Morocco
  • Spain

'Friday of Death': Sudanese migrant documents Melilla tragedy, three years on

Alhafiz Trjok was among a group of about 2,000 migrants who attempted to cross into the Spanish enclave of Melilla on June 24, 2022. The attempt was met with violent response by Moroccan and Spanish forces, and at least 23 migrant...

Flle photo: Atalaia Street, Lisbon. Portugal is shifting from an open migration policy | Photo: picture alliance / Edson De Souza
  • Brazil
  • Portugal

Portugal tightens immigration restrictions further

File photo: Changes in the Health and Care Worker Visa Program come July 22, 2025, are expected to affect thousands of health care workers | Photo: Peter Byrne/PA Wire
  • United Kingdom

Changes in the UK health and care worker visa – What you need to know

News

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, during the remembrance ceremony for the victims of the 2013 Lampedusa shipwreck | Photo: UNHCR/ALESSIO MAM via ANSAmed
  • Italy

UNHCR chief Grandi: 'We must face what causes people to flee'
The Danish Minister of Immigration and Integration, Kaare Dybvad Bek | Photo: ARCHIVE/EPA/MADS CLAUS RASMUSSEN
  • Denmark
  • European Union

Make repatriation rules more effective –Denmark takes over EU presidency
Masked people gathered at the San Antonio district in the town of Torre Pacheco, Murcia, southeastern Spain, late 14 July 2025 | Photo: EPA/PABLO MIRANZO
  • Spain

Spain: 'Video causing anti-migrant violence is a fake'
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Features

File photo used for illustration: A migrant is helped ashore by a Border Force officer at Dover Harbor in Kent after crossing the English Channel. An estimated 705 children were reported to have entered the care of the Kent County Council between January and June 2025 after crossing the Channel | Photo: picture-alliance/Stuart Brock
  • United Kingdom

Hope and futures on hold: Lengthy asylum process causing emotional harm for unaccompanied minors

Federal Police Commissioner Uli Grötsch holds a copy of the presentation of his agency's report at the Federal Press Conference | Photo: Carsten Koall/picture-alliance
  • Germany

Germany: Report by police commissioner criticizes racial profiling
Young migrants, unaccompanied minors in pending appeals, under tents in Paris, March 27th, 2025. | Photo: InfoMigrants
  • France

France: Report slams territorial inequalities in unaccompanied foreign minors care
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Personal stories

Oumar, teen who travelled to Canaries, not alone thanks to new foster mother

The story of Oumar, a Senegalese teen who travelled to the Canary Islands, has a happy ending. He is now living with Emilia D'Agostino, an Italian who has been residing in Spain for the past 35 years and who became his foster mother.

'You become a target if you are Black', says Ivorian jailed in Tunisia for 'illegal residence'

Daouda* was arrested and jailed in Tunisia in February after being convicted of "illegal residence". Many sub-Saharan Africans like him are sentenced in Tunisia for "staying illegally" and find themselves locked in cells with common-law prisoners. Daouda contacted InfoMigrants to share his story.

'Libyans, armed and hooded, picked us up in the desert' – testimony of a Guinean in Tunisia

Last November, Augustin (first name was changed) and around 50 migrants were allegedly arrested by police in Tunisia. After hours of driving in the middle of the desert, they were handed over to Libyan forces in the middle of the night, then sent to a prison in the suburbs of Tripoli. To get out, the 33-year-old Guinean said he had to pay 800 euros. Augustin contacted the InfoMigrants editorial team to share his story.
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Understanding Europe

Poland is the latest EU member to install border checks | Photo: Lisi Niesner / Reuters
  • Germany
  • Poland

Poland's border checks: Beginning of the end of Schengen?
File photo used as illustration: The 'MegaMatchmaking' job fair in Oulu, Finland on September 25, 2024 | Photo: Benjamin Bathke/InfoMigrants
  • Finland

Finland: Changes to residence permit for employed migrants
Migrants try to stay above water after their makeshift boat capsized in the Mediterranean | Photo: Reuters
  • Libya
  • Tunisia

Mediterranean crossing: Debunking the lies that smugglers tell migrants
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The European Union

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  • European Union

Fighting migrant smuggling: 2021-2025 EU action plan

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  • European Union

Entering the EU - online visa application process and digital visa

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  • Ukraine
  • European Union

Are you seeking refuge from the war in Ukraine? Beware of human traffickers when on the move
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