Human migration

A group of people crowded onto a small open boat in the deep blue sea
Migration
Europe makes another move to outsource border control with Mauritania deal
The US Embassy in Delhi, India, where visas are processed for Indian nationals to work and study in the United States. 
The price of higher ed
Visa delays dash ‘once-in-a-lifetime’ opportunities for students, workers in India
beach scene
Ukraine
Ukrainian refugees found shelter in Spain’s empty hotels. But then, tourists came back.
An aerial view of Fairbourne village in Gwynedd in Wales, Wednesday, Oct. 20, 2021.
Refugees
Climate change may be the leading driver of tomorrow’s refugee crisis
A migrant domestic worker holds a placard during a march demanding basic labor rights as Lebanese workers in Beirut, May 3, 2015. More than 200,000 workers mostly women from Asia and Africa work as maids in a country of 4 million people, many also come fr
Justice
Could a court case in Lebanon shift attitudes toward migrant domestic workers?
Animesh Namjoshi poses for a graduation photo after receiving his diploma at Seven Lakes High School
Immigration
This Houston student grew up in the US. Now he may be forced to self-deport to India due to a visa backlog.
Australian flooding
Climate Change
Climate migration has begun, and it’s only getting worse, expert says
Napier barracks
Migration
‘It’s un-British’: UK government crackdown on asylum courts controversy 
A hand holds up a cartoon in front of the Capitol dome of the Statue of Liberty hugging a Muslim hijabi girl.
Refugees
Refugees stuck in limbo over Biden’s inaction to restore admissions program
People stand in front of a church door with protest signs on it.
Migration
‘We cannot continue to live like this’: Migrants desperate to work occupy Brussels church
Four people walk with their belongings outside. A woman wears a blue scarf on her hair. A barefoot man carries a bag on his shoulder.
Climate and human security: Part I
Two people stand at a protest with a loud speaker in their hands.
Health
A therapists’ network supports immigrants, advocates during pandemic 
Rescue workers carry the body of a dead migrant after a boat with 35 migrants from the Maghreb region capsized at the beach of Orzola, in the Canary Island of Lanzarote, Spain, Nov. 25, 2020.
Immigration
Canary Islands face influx of migrants from West Africa
Health care workers gather for lunch purchased by members of the New York City Police Department (NYPD)
COVID-19
Pandemic raises fears for immigrant doctors whose status in the US is uncertain
Two children sleep beneath gray blankets on the road near the Moria refugee camp on the northeastern island of Lesbos, Greece, Sept. 10, 2020.
Migration
Thousands of refugees sleep in streets after fire destroys Greece’s Moria camp
Gandega Bakary, 16, who is originally from Mali, has been living on the street in France, even amid the coronavirus lockdown.
Migration
Who is responsible for migrant youth in France? 
A black and white image of girls walking down a ships gangway
Supreme Court allows public charge clause that kept Nazi-era refugees from the US
A black and white photo of people going through immigration queues
Immigration
Cuccinelli’s ‘bootstraps’ line reflects historical amnesia of ‘public charge’
A man stands inside a newly built house in Guatemala built with remittance money from his son, who lives and works in the US.
Immigration
Migration to US is a family ‘duty’ for many Guatemalans
Bangladesh flooded farms.
Climate Change
A climate migration crisis is escalating in Bangladesh
Honduran mother and child on their way to US
Climate Change
Climate change is the overlooked driver of Central American migration
Mother with her son, holding a US flag, waits in line for food.
Global Politics
Who is responsible for migrants?
abandonded house with encroaching seawater
Climate Change
UN compact recognizes climate change as driver of migration for first time
workers in kiev
Business, Economics and Jobs
Will Ukrainians abroad drive change back home?
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Arts, Culture & Media
Young migrants in Sicily heal from sea-crossing traumas through theater
Three young women from Indonesia smile for the camera
Immigration
Japan eases immigration restrictions to fill chronic care worker shortage
Mahmood Salem and four of his children on a visit to Djibouti in November 2017.
Immigration
‘There is real suffering’: How the travel ban is tearing some families apart
Young woman in plain room, dirt floor, holding birth certificate
Immigration
There are about 600,000 children in Mexico who were born in the US but struggle to claim citizenship
greece
Greece seeks to speed refugee processing, ease camp overcrowding
caravan
Global Politics
Migrants seek asylum after caravan completes journey to US-Mexico border
A woman holding a baby waits in line, above an open helping hand is extended.
Conflict
Make your way through the maze of seeking asylum in the US
A migrant carrying a child waits to cross the border with Croatia near the village of Berkasovo, Serbia, Oct. 19, 2015. Women face assault, harassment and sexual violence at every step of the way along the European migrant trail, including on European soi
Conflict
As the European migrant trail has gone underground, the threat of sexual violence has increased
Pat traveled from Nigeria to Florence in search of work and was sold into a sex trafficking ring. After she escaped, she lived as an undocumented migrant in southern Italy until an advocacy group helped her secure status. Now she's applying for Italian ci
Justice
Undocumented migrants in southern Italy find security and empowerment in being ‘vulnerable’
Manantali Dam
Conflict
In Africa, dams and loss of wetlands are helping to fuel the migrant crisis
Refugees
Conflict
Temperature affects human migration, new research shows
Migrants wait for food distribution inside an abandoned factory close to the Croatian border near the town of Sid, Serbia, Dec. 19, 2017. There are about 8,000 refugees and migrants stranded in Serbia, a result of a tougher European border policies that f
Conflict
Migrants stuck in Serbia play a desperate ‘game’ to reach the EU
Two migrants play checkers with bottle caps in an abandoned warehouse where they live on the Greek island of Lesbos.
Conflict
Trapped by border closings, these young migrants are hiding out in an abandoned warehouse
Migrant families
Global Politics
US may separate migrant parents from their children
social media
Global Politics
UN: Traffickers use social media to lure migrants to slavery, death
Migrants sleep on the ground at dawn at the Hermanos en el Camino shelter in Ixtepec, Oaxaca. The buildings here are too damaged by the recent earthquakes to enter.
Conflict
Mexico’s earthquakes complicate life for Central American migrants fleeing violence
DHS bus
Conflict
The complicated reasons why some people overstay their US visas
Farm book
Books
What’s it like to be a migrant farmworker? One anthropologist lived and worked alongside them.
Akiko Antoinette Aspillaga, in the black coat, is an undocumented Filipino immigrant. She 's one of the many young immigrants in the US who was eager about Obama's immigration plan, but wants full rights in the US, rather than temporary relief.
Development
Immigrants will be in the spotlight during Obama’s speech
A woman holds a sign during a demonstration organised by anti-immigration group PEGIDA, a German abbreviation for "Patriotic Europeans against the Islamisation of the West", in Dresden December 22, 2014.
Global Politics
Why other European cities might be frightened by the events in France this week
22-year-old Attas is currently living with 70 other homeless migrants in an abandoned office building in Amsterdam. The Dutch govenment this week rejected a UN call to assist  illegal homeless migrants by providing food and shelter.
Global Politics
Homeless migrants in Amsterdam are stuck in a cold limbo
Local elementary school students vote for fairy tale and movie-themed gingerbread houses created by pastry students from the San Ysidro Adult School Culinary Arts program in San Ysidro, California on December 9, 2014.
Global Politics
Five things we learned in 2014 about immigrants in the US — documented and undocumented
Seydo, a Kurdish nomad, with his flock in southeastern Turkey
Culture
A journalist on a seven-year trek and a shepherd say goodbye to 12,000 years of human history
African immigrants walk among rows of prefabricated container houses, which have replaced scores of tents, at the open centre for immigrants formerly known as "Tent City" in Hal Far, outside Valletta March 27, 2014. In 2013
Development
Refugee camps are surprising hot spots of innovation
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Justice
Central American kids wait in life-or-death limbo to see if they can stay in the US
Studio 360 – Episode 842 – Yo-Yo Ma, Boston, The 99 – Segment 7
New Hampshire Protest
Conflict & Justice
Protests spread north over unaccompanied migrant children coming to ‘our town’
Conflict & Justice
Immigration Policies Past and Future
Reuters SAUL
Conflict & Justice
Why did a Southern California town block buses full of migrants?
“It’s just crazy to see this guy barefoot,” says Pindado. “The tops of the trains are so hot. At the same time, he’s wearing a hat. The temperatures drop at night, especially up north. You can also see that the train is moving and that he’s jumping. There
Global Politics
When undocumented migrants photograph their own journey across the border
Women walk past buildings as the sun sets in Doha October 19, 2010.
Global Scan
Qatar’s treatment of its migrant workers goes under the microscope
Devyani Khobragade, India's deputy consul general
Conflict & Justice
The US has long worked to prevent diplomats from mistreating household workers
Israeli Bedouin
Development & Education
In Israel, the once nomadic Bedouin are reluctant to move
Ju Hong at the immigration speech
Development & Education
Obama heckler talks about his life as an undocumented immigrant
Rescued migrants on board a coastguard vessel arrive at the harbor of Lampedusa.
Conflict & Justice
Tragedy strikes African migrants headed to Italy seeking asylum
Former Idaho State Senator Mike Jorgenson in Hayden Lake, Idaho proposed legislation to make it more difficult for undocumented immigrants to find employment in his state. (Photo: Jason Margolis)
Conflict & Justice
Immigration Voices: Why a Conservative Idaho Lawmaker Wants Tighter Controls