InfoMigrants

Video: A Senegalese migrant stranded in Turkey

Poverty and lack of opportunities are amongst the leading reasons behind undocumented migration. Salmane’s story is no different. Despite studying law and political science in his native country, he chose to leave Senegal. He ended1

For many migrants who cross the Channel, a life in the shadows awaits if and when their asylum process founders or they try and duck the authorities | Photo: Picture-alliance/dpa/P.Karadjias

Life in the shadows? What awaits migrants crossing the Channel to the UK

This year and last have been full of reports of the ever-increasing numbers of migrants who are attempting to cross the Channel for a life in the UK. But as immigration rhetoric hardens, is this pushing migrants and asylum seekers s1

These migrants made it to the Canary Islands from Morocco but many more die at sea. Perhaps nearly 2,000 in 2021 alone | Photo: Javier Bauluz / AP

Dying to reach Europe: The Atlantic crossing

A tally of the numbers of migrants who die or go missing during their journeys is impossible to establish definitively, since so many go without telling people, and travel via illegal means. Deaths at sea are even harder to trace, b1

Many of the thousands of people who have crossed into Lithuania from Belarus in recent months are caught in limbo | Photo: PETRAS MALUKAS/ AFP

Migrants await their fate as tensions mount in Lithuania

Illegal migration to Lithuania has skyrocketed, with the total number of detected newcomers reaching 4,000 so far this year, compared to just 81 for all of 2020. The sudden influx has caused unease -- there have been demonstrations1

From file: With rising numbers of arrivals across the Channel, Kent County Council says it can no longer cope with the numbers of unaccompanied child migrants placed in its care | Photo: Gareth Fuller/PA Wire

Migrant and refugee crossings of English Channel increasing, despite risks

Despite tougher measures on both sides of the English Channel, asylum-seekers are still trying to make the dangerous crossing from France to the United Kingdom, in an attempt to find a better future.