Sudanese refugees currently face fewer escape routes to neighboring countries and stricter European asylum policies. Katarzyna Grabska, a research professor at the Centre for Humanitarian Studies at the University of Geneva, describ1
Thousands of Afghans are attempting to leave Iran amid intensifying attacks and collapsing infrastructure. While children face growing hunger and disease, undocumented refugees in cities like Tehran remain stranded.
Spain will expand free healthcare to undocumented migrants under new plans. This follows the announcement earlier in the year that the government would regularize 500,000 irregular migrants already in the country. The southern EU na1
Austrian and Europol authorities have dismantled a major migrant smuggling ring following a 15-month investigation. Coordinated raids resulted in 130 arrests linked to the criminal network in seven EU countries so far. Vienna’s publ1
Recognition rates for Afghan men aged between 18 and 40 have dropped sharply in Germany over the past year. The decline comes as the federal government adopts a more restrictive approach to asylum claims from Afghanistan.
A Hanover court has sentenced five defendants aged between 26 and 42 to prison terms ranging from three to eight years for smuggling hundreds of people under life-threatening conditions. Another defendant received a one-year suspend1
The German Parliament has voted in favor of implementing the new Common European Asylum System and has agreed on toughening up its approach to irregular migration still further. The measures aim to speed up asylum procedures and the1
Germany’s highest administrative court (Bundesverwaltungsgericht) in Leipzig has ruled that a secondary application for asylum is only valid once the first application in another EU country has been completely closed and all appeals1
The border police of France's Hautes-Alpes region have been issuing ICTFs (bans on circulation within French territory) to migrants since early January. Several associations described the practice as "illegal", which the Marseille A1