Italian officials have been quoted as saying that the rise in gender-based violence in Italy is linked to irregular migration. InfoMigrants looks at rates of violence against women in Italy.
As aging populations exacerbate worker shortages, European countries are quietly luring skilled foreign workers — even as pressure from the far right to keep immigration down has increased.
The Senegalese navy has stepped up its patrols along its coasts and says it intercepted almost 1,000 migrants in October attempting to reach the Canary Islands. Following a deadly shipwreck in September, Senegal's president pledged1
A total of 215,000 young people in Germany lived in homes or foster families, at least temporarily, last year. The rise in numbers is primarily attributed to unaccompanied underage refugees entering the country.
An Austrian study has found that refugees face greater housing instability than other categories of migrants. They tend to move nearly four times more than other migrants, "signaling greater instability."