A group of migrants take part in the activity organized by the NGO ProemAID to overcome the traumatic experience of a dangerous sea crossing | Photo: Borja Suarez/Reuters
  • Canary Islands
  • Spain

Canary Islands: Overcoming fear of the sea

Many migrants suffer from severe trauma following their migration journeys. An NGO in Tenerife is trying to help migrants overcome their water trauma and find joy in their relationship with the sea again.

File photo: Some members of the Uyghur community gather outside the Chinese consulate in Istanbul in 2023 to condemn the actions of the People's Republic of China towards the Uyghur minority in the country | Photo: Mert Nazim Egin /picture alliance / ZUMAPRESS.com
  • China
  • Turkey

Uyghurs face risk of detention in Turkey
File photo: Vietnam nationals have recently accounted for one of the top nationalities crossing the Channel in small boats | Photo: Chris J. Ratcliffe/via Reuters
  • Timor-Leste
  • United Kingdom
  • Vietnam

UK deports 46 individuals to Vietnam and East Timor on charter flight

News

File photo: Migrants on a rubber boat in the English Channel, near Boulogne-sur-Mer, October 2, 2023 | Photo: Reuters
  • France
  • United Kingdom

Prolific Albanian smuggler sentenced to nearly a decade in prison for Channel crossings
Irregular migrants from Niger and Egypt are seen boarding a bus before being sent to their home countries in Tripoli, Libya on July 25, 2024. | Photo: Muhammed Semiz / Anadolu
  • Italy
  • Libya
  • European Union

Tripoli seeks to present itself as a migration hub amid human rights concerns
The IOM held a meeting in the Moroccan city of Rabat on July 24 to look at regular migration routes from Africa to Europe | Source: IOM Morocco Press Office
  • Morocco

IOM holds meeting focused on regular migration in Rabat
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Features

Omid Ahmadisafa at the World Boxing Championships in Cologne | Photo: World Boxing Federation
  • Germany
  • Iran

A boxer's fight for freedom on the way to the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics

Maso competed in the 50-meter freestyle at the Tokyo Olympics | Photo: Kyodo/picture alliance
  • France
  • Germany
  • Syria

Paris 2024: Refugee swimmer sees need for better integration
An asylum seeker inside the Malakasa reception and identification center, where many of the survivors from Pylos were taken (Photo used as illustration) | Photo: George Schinas / Nur Photo/ picture alliance
  • Germany
  • Greece
  • Syria

'Limbo and uncertainty': Life after surviving the Pylos shipwreck

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Personal stories

Hans' tale: 'I dream of seeing the Olympics in Paris'

The Bulgarian state intends to increase the arrivals of Indian workers in the coming months, to respond to the labor shortage in certain sectors. But what are the working conditions like? And what future is there for these workers in Europe? Hans is one of them, here is his story.

Emma's tale: 'They consider us worthless'

Emma* escaped her violent ex-husband in South Africa at the end of 2022 and fled to Ireland. With her new partner and three children (4, 11 and 13 years old), she is housed in a reception center around thirty kilometers from Dublin while awaiting the outcome of her asylum application. The 33-year-old mother says she experiences daily hardship at the center, feeling isolated from everything. Here is her story.

Prison, punishment and pushbacks: From Eritrea to Libya to Italy

InfoMigrants spoke with Eritrean migrants aboard Emergency's Life Support search-and-rescue vessel in March 2024. Two of their stories highlight the grim reality of life for sub-Saharan migrants in Libya, where both lived for over three years before managing to cross the Mediterranean Sea to Italy.

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Understanding Europe

From file: A German and an anonymous passport | Photo: Ohde/Bildagentur-online/picture-alliance
  • Germany

Germany's reformed citizenship law is coming into force. What does it mean for migrants?
EU Commission Vice President Margaritis Schinas and Commissioner Ylva Johansson hold a news conference on the migration pact in Brussels, Belgium, on June 12, 2024. | Photo: Dursun Aydemir / Anadolu / Agency / picture alliance
  • Belgium

EU presents plan to roll out new migration pact
From file: The European Commission has provided a series of written answers to our questions about the new EU migration pact Reuters
  • European Union

The new EU Asylum and Migration Pact -- questions answered
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The European Union

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  • European Union

Fighting migrant smuggling: 2021-2025 EU action plan

Credit: European Commission
  • European Union

Entering the EU - online visa application process and digital visa

Credit: European Commission
  • Ukraine
  • European Union

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