German authorities offered financial assistance to 437 Syrian refugees to return to their country voluntarily in 2018. That’s according to preliminary figures provided by Germany’s Federal Office for Migration and Refugees, BAMF.
After an operation for voluntary returns last week, the UN agency for migration IOM reports that the total number of migrants that had voluntarily returned from Libya to their country of origin since 2015 had risen to 40,000.
A total of 10,787 unaccompanied foreign minors are currently residing in Italy, down from the 18,000 registered at the end of 2017, Unicef said. Overall, 3,536 minors travelled to Italy by sea on their own, the organization said. Th1
The French defense ministry has announced that it will be giving six equipped boats to the Libyan coast guard. The ships are supposed to assist Libya's efforts to curb clandestine migration, the ministry said.
Asylum applicants in Germany's eastern states are far more likely to be the victims of hate crime than those in the west, according to a study. Researchers have a theory as to why that might be the case.