migrants

Haitians who were detained hold up their immigration status documents to prove they have work permits, in Haina, Dominican Republic, March 16, 2024.
Conflict & Justice
‘We have different cultures, but we share the same island’: Dominican Republic priest says his country should do more to help Haiti
St. Paul and St. Andrew is located on West 86th street, in Manhattan’s Upper West Side.
Migration
New York City is trying to turn houses of worship into shelters
Under the suspicion of drug consumption, police officers frisk a group of migrants at a camp on a street in downtown El Paso, Texas, April 30, 2023.
Violence
Report: Human rights abuses by US immigration officials are rampant at the southern border
The CAFEMIN shelter in Mexico City is designed for 80 people, but it's currently hosting 500, with most of them sleeping on gym mats in the shelter's basketball court.
Immigration
Shelters for migrants in Mexico City overwhelmed as US changes its asylum rules
man at podium
Immigration
Afghans who fled to the US hope that Congress will fix their status 
Three families from Afghanistan prepare to board a boat in Necocli, Colombia, that will take them towards the border with Panama.
Immigration
Afghan families traverse most of Latin America to seek asylum at the US border
Wide view of Almeria in southern Spain.
Migration
Migrant farmworkers in Spain living in makeshift encampments have little hope for formal work
The Talyzenkov family, currently living in London, England, heads back to Ukraine for a weeklong visit.
Ukraine
‘Family is everything’: A train ride to a long-awaited reunion in Ukraine
Venezuelan migrants board a boat in the Colombian city of Necocli that will take them closer to Panama, the next stop on the way to the United States
Migration
New Biden policy leaves thousands of Venezuelan migrants stranded
Residents stand amid their homes damaged by a gasoline truck that overturned and exploded in Cap-Haitien, Haiti
Justice
‘Haitians deserve a chance to determine their own future,’ former US envoy says
A makeshift camp for migrants is set up along the river in Loon Plage, near Grande-Synthe, northern France
Migration
France lashes out at Britain’s latest proposal on migrants
A protest by mothers in the Polish eastern town of Hajnowka over the deaths of migrant children in the forest. 
Migration
An underground network of locals in Poland self-organize to help migrants who face ‘pushbacks’ by the govt
Protestors clash with riot police during a demonstration against the reinforced measures of the Belgium government to counter the latest spike of the coronavirus in Brussels, Belgium
Top of The World
Europe sees widespread protests against COVID-19 restrictions
President Joe Biden waves towards the White House balcony in Washington
Top of The World
US, Canada and Mexico to hold talks at the White House
Commuters drive amidst morning haze and toxic smog as schools and some coal-based power plants close down in New Delhi, India
Top of The World
Heavy smog shuts down schools in India’s capital
A view of a tent camp set by migrants from the Middle East and elsewhere gathering at the Belarus-Poland border near Grodno, Belarus
Top of The World
EU officials accuse Belarus of creating a new migrant crisis
Migrants from the Middle East and elsewhere rest on the ground as they gather at the Belarus-Poland border near Grodno, Belarus
Top of The World
Polish border police push back migrants at Belarus border
A caravan of migrants head north towards the US-Mexico border, as they depart from Tapachula, Mexico
Top of The World
Migrants set up camp under Del Rio bridge along US-Mexico border
Migrants wearing face masks to curb the spread of COVID-19 sit at a pier as Italian police officers stand by.
Migration
Some migrants crossing the Mediterranean say they prefer death to being returned
Dora Melara is an attorney working for Justice in Motion, a US-based nonprofit. She took a road trip recently to track down some family members separated at the US border.
Immigration
This Honduran lawyer reunites families separated at the US-Mexico border. It involves difficult road trips — and detective work.
Veronica Gomez, who was traveling with her partner and her son, receives backpacks from a humanitarian worker on Oct 1. The backpacks included energy bars, toiletries and ski masks, for the cold weather.
Migration
Amid pandemic, Venezuelans hit the road again in search of work
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? 
Migrants are shown in the near ground walking in a line as they disembark from a merchant ship with armed soldiers behind them.
Conflict & Justice
Maltese soldiers seize small tanker hijacked by migrants
A slatted metal prototypes of a border wall is shown, photographed through the border wall in Tijuana, Mexico.
In Texas border town, skepticism ahead of Trump visit to push wall
People crowd next to the coffin with a young person in a blue shirt with a tear in their eye, during her funeral, in Tegucigalpa, Honduras in July.
Conflict & Justice
Violence, gangs cast pall over life in Honduras
A small girl in a t-shirt with bare legs and feet cries she and her mother run up a dirt hill.
Immigration
Mexico calls for ‘full investigation’ of US tear gas used at border
Venezuelan migrants are shown standing and also sitting while they wait in line to get the needed paperwork for a temporary residency permit in Lima, Peru.
Thousands of Venezuelans head to Peru to beat residency deadline
A US Custom and Border Protection agent stands in the foreground with a riffle additional agents armed in the distance.
Trump sends 5,200 troops to Mexico border as migrants continue trek north
Anti-immigration activists attend a protest in the South Korean capital of Seoul on June 30, 2018. They were protesting against a group of hundreds of Yemeni asylum-seekers who arrived on the South Korean tourist resort of Jeju Island in recent months. Th
A protest against Yemeni refugees reveals how South Korea has been ‘educated to think about foreigners’
French President Emmanuel Macron, smiles as he warmly greets Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel — the two holding hands.
EU cuts migration deal after marathon talks, differences remain
German Chancellor Angela Merkel is seen in a blue dress next to European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker in a blue suit with several flags behind them.
Before summit, Merkel calls migration ‘make or break’ for Europe
A pink sign reading "SOS EVACUATE MANUS" is held up by a protester.
Conflict
They lived in limbo in Australian offshore camps for years. Now they call the US home.
A migrant looks out to sea off the coast of Libya.
Conflict
Migrant boat capsizes off Libya, 90 feared dead, mostly Pakistanis
A mother and her young daughter are watched by Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) officers as they prepare to cross the US-Canada border from New York into Quebec earlier this month. Like thousands of others fleeing the US for Canada, the woman told off
Justice
Immigrants fearing Trump are heading to Canada in droves. But will they be able to stay?
Cedric Herrou, a French farmer and volunteer assisting migrants to cross the French-Italian border to avoid police controls, poses as he sits in a couch near tents for migrants pitched at his land in Breil-sur-Roya, France, April 11, 2017.
Conflict
A French farmer who helped migrants crossing from Italy has been sentenced
Central Americans
Justice
Why some people seeking asylum in the US are afraid of going to court
people at a funeral
Justice
Ten migrants dead in overheated truck in Texas, driver charged
Migrants
Culture
Hundreds of asylum-seekers are packed into ‘human warehouses’ in Italian villages
Migrants
Conflict
An eye doctor was out on a yacht one night and ended up in the middle of a humanitarian disaster
Politics
The AP drops ‘illegal immigrant,’ why it matters
Agence France-Presse
Meet the Tunisian fisherman saving the lives of migrants at sea
Migrants from North Africa wait for transfer in Italy.
Politics
2,000 Egyptian children crossed the Mediterranean alone last year
Justice
Thailand’s death camps may be the most horrifying places in Southeast Asia
A migrant worker lays a table at a Doha restaurant.
Agence France-Presse
What Qatar’s migrant workers have to say about building the 2022 World Cup
Indonesian medical workers attend to a Bangladeshi migrant rescued from a boat and taken to the Indonesian town of Langsa in Aceh province.
Agence France-Presse
Southeast Asia is following Australia’s lead turning back migrant boats
the Cara Mineo complex, a hosting center for asylum seekers in Catania, Sicily.
Agence France-Presse
Refugees in Egypt say getting to Europe is worth risking their lives
Justice
The US says it will take in some of Asia’s most persecuted people
Justice
Here is what Tony Abbott has to say to some of the most persecuted people on Earth
Politics
Hungary’s prime minister crusades against immigrants the country doesn’t have
Justice
Unlike their government, Indonesians welcome Rohingya refugees
Zara store
Business, Finance & Economics
Sure, Zara’s owner just became the world’s 2nd richest man, but what about the ‘sweatshops’?
This photo taken on May 14, 2015, shows Rohingya migrants crammed onto a boat stranded in Thai waters off the southern island of Koh Lipe.
Justice
If you thought Australia’s border policy couldn’t be more unsympathetic, you were wrong
Agence France-Presse
Greek islanders are breaking the law to help thousands of desperate migrants
Conflict
There are now more refugees around the world than any other time in the last 50 years
Donald Trump announcing his candidacy for president
Politics
Mexico to Donald Trump: You are one ‘ignorant,’ ‘prejudiced’ hombre
Justice
Should we call the Rohingya crisis a ‘genocide’?
Agence France-Presse
There’s a line of Balkan countries waiting to join the EU — and they’re getting impatient
Justice
Meet an Italian nun who’s been helping sex trafficking victims for 20 years
Mexican migrant construction
Business, Finance & Economics
Mexico gets billions more dollars from migrants than from oil exports
Justice
Mexico ‘a death trap for migrants’ one year after new border program launched